Southwestern Company Campus Relations
What is The Southwestern Company?
Southwestern is:
a community of the most interesting and motivated college and university students in the world
Southwestern is:
- Unmatched experience for a powerful resume
- Extraordinary financial opportunity
- Life skills training
- Challenge
- Mentoring from the best
- A stepping stone to their goals in life, whatever they may be
Southwestern is:
the gateway into an amazing career in one of our 15 companies, OR into the resources, experience, and mindset to partner with you in building a new one.
Southwestern’s Mission
The Southwestern Company’s mission is simple: To be the best organization in the world at helping young people develop the skills – and the character – they need to achieve their goals in life. We build people: the people who sell our products; the consumers who benefit from them; and the people who become members of our team of employees. We build people. And those people are building a great company.
Our History
The Southwestern Company has been located in Nashville, Tennessee since 1855, and began helping students finance their education by selling books in 1868. Southwestern has been in the UK since 1994. Southwestern markets family-oriented educational reference books and software through a sales force of over 3,000 students each summer.
What We Do
Students who participate in The Southwestern Company internship program represent approximately 350 colleges and universities from the United States, Canada, Europe, South Africa, and South America. Our products are sold to families in their homes by these students during their summer breaks. These students are independent contractors and have the opportunity to run their own businesses by purchasing products from Southwestern at wholesale and selling them to customers at retail.
