The Risk Management Center (RMC) at Kansas State University engages students and industry partners in studying organizational risks inherent in our global society. Its success depends on collaboration among faculty, students and industry partners.

RMC's Approach

Through educating undergraduate students, graduate students, executives and professionals and conducting collaborative research, RMC builds risk management skills and knowledge. Ultimately, it equips students and professionals it reaches with what they need to apply effective risk management practices to their work.

For Kansas State University students selected as RMC fellows, their fellowship experiences position them as future risk management leaders. The RMC approach to educating student-fellows has three distinguishing features.

It creates an interdisciplinary learning environment. One RMC cohort may involve student-fellows from more than 20 degree programs. Plus, they work with industry partners to complete consulting-type projects, which replicate an industry setting of interdisciplinary teams assessing, managing and monitoring risk.

It focuses on enterprise and integrated risk management to produce career-ready graduates who have a systems understanding of risk. RMC uniquely provides students with a comprehensive view of risk within an organization, across the supply chain and throughout an industry and adjacent industries.

It roots itself in experiential learning, which combines academic coursework, extracurricular engagement and linkages to industry. Modeled after top-ranked MBA seminars, RMC courses introduce risk management principles for student-fellows to apply to team projects.