A corporate university is any educational entity that is a strategic tool designed to assist its parent organization in achieving its goals by conducting activities that foster individual and organizational learning and knowledge

1. Corporate University Model: A corporate university is any educational entity that is a
strategic tool designed to assist its parent organization in achieving its goals by conducting
activities that foster individual and organizational learning and knowledge. [1]
Corporate
universities (CU) are a growing trend in corporations. In most cases, corporate universities are
not universities in the strict sense of the word. The traditional university is an educational
institution which grants both undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in a variety of subjects, as
well as conducting original scientific research. In contrast, a corporate university typically limits
scope to providing job-specific, indeed company-specific, training for the managerial personnel
of the parent corporation. Corporate universities are most commonly found in the United States,
a nation which has no official legal definition of the term "university".
Apple University Hamburger University
Established: 2008 Established 1961
Chairman: Joel Podolny, Dean Founder: Fred L. Turner, Ray Kroc
Location: Cupertino, California, United States Location: Oak Brook, Illinois, United States
Campus: Suburban Campus: Suburban, 80 acres (32 ha)
Affiliation: Apple Inc. Affiliation: McDonald's
Sberbank Corporate University Disney University
Established: 2012 Established 1955
Chairman: Herman Gref Chairman: Walt Disney
Location: Moscow, Russian Federation Location: Oak Brook, Illinois, United States
Campus: Anosino, Istra District Campus: Suburban, 80 acres (32 ha)
Affiliation: Sberbank of Russia. Affiliation: Disney World.

2. General Electric’s Crotonville
Corporate University
Established: 1956
Chairman: Jeffrey Immelt
Location: New York, USA
Campus: New York State’s Hudson Valley
Affiliation: General Electric
Reference:
1. Allen, Mark (2002). The Corporate University Handbook. AMACOM Div American
Mgmt Assn. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-8144-0711-0.
2. "Hamburger University". McDonald's. 2011. Retrieved 23 July 2011.
3. Lipp, Doug (2013). Disney U: How Disney University develops the world's most
engaged, loyal, and customer-centric employees. New York: McGraw-Hill. ISBN
0071808078.
4. Yearout, Steve; Weil, Gerry Miles, with Richard Koonce ; foreword by Audrey (2001).
Growing leaders: a leader-builder handbook for HRD and training professionals, business
executives and managers, executive coaches. Alexandria, VA: ASTD. p. 193. ISBN
1562862898.
5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_university, 10:20 PM, 10 October 2016.