Authentic Experiences with Authentic People.
Real Ideas
Here, you have the freedom to use your creativity and innovation, leading your business with your own unique direction.
Real People
Our SAI team is like family. You can find our community within and outside of the workplace, extending beyond the larger Cornell network.
Real Businesses
Come gain a unique business experience where we collectively manage 6 business agencies, hire over 250 students, and generate over $2.5M annually.
Real Money
Unlike other pre-professional organizations, we offer competitive wages and flexible hours. Get paid up to $18,000 while gaining a real, tactical business experience.
Each year in autumn, Student Agencies, Inc. searches for its next management team.
Learn more about our culture, and see if you are up to the challenge.
Education. Legacy. Experience. Family. Network.
Come Learn With Us
Managers learn practical skills and gain experience far beyond what is available in any classroom. Financial Accounting is a breeze after managers learn how to read variance reports, create budgets using historical financial results, and present their financial performance to the Board of Directors. Reading about the 4 P’s seems simple when you have hands-on experience planning, implementing, and evaluating campus-wide marketing initiatives. Writing a business plan is no challenge when you have already developed and launched a new product or service. These are differentiating experiences that managers carry into future interviews and their careers.
Let’s Do More Together
The high energy atmosphere of SAI is the result of our inherent drive to do more. We don't wait for opportunity to arise, we create it. Perhaps this vibrant energy is the result of our youth, but more likely this drive is the result of one of the major traits each manager must espouse: strategic vision. Each manager is given a business as a clean slate, it is up to them to show off their strategic capabilities to drive growth. We shun stagnation and use our creativity to constantly move forward.
Be a Part of Our Legacy
We are America's oldest independent student-run corporation. SAI was founded in 1894 by Seth Higby when he began a laundry service to help finance his education. Today we have grown to employ more than 200 Cornell undergraduates. Our growth since the 19th century has not only manifested itself in the creation of multiple businesses serving the Greater Tompkins County community, but our successful model has been copied by individuals at most of the other Ivy League institutions. Welcome to Cornell's original start-up.
Join Our Family
SAI isn't just a place where we work. Student Agencies is a place where lasting friendships are formed. From enjoying days boating on Cayuga lake, to exploring the terrain of upstate New York, to going out together on the weekends, our managers have truly become a social force. As the overused, millennial cliché goes, "work hard, play hard."
Where We Are Now
We have an expansive network of successful alumni, who remain interested in the welfare and future of SAI. Though our alumni are leaders in a variety of different fields, one thing they all agree upon is that SAI was the most valuable part of their experience as Cornellians. After their time at SAI, our managers use this network as a launchpad for their careers.
