CoBank recognizes the importance of education in helping develop the leaders of the future. Through our college relations program, we work with multiple U.S. universities to provide annual scholarships. Both CoBank and FCL offer internship opportunities based on our business needs.

Each of the universities we support shows a strong commitment to agribusiness, cooperative education and research. The schools also sponsor academic programs supporting our recruitment needs in agribusiness, business administration, international business and finance. We work with Colorado State University, Kansas State University, Texas A&M University, University of California-Davis, University of Georgia and University of Illinois.

CoBank endows funds to a number of universities to support research and education. At the University of Missouri, we help fund the Robert D. Partridge Chair in the Department of Agricultural Economics. The endowment helps agricultural producers who organize to control their own economic destiny. Partridge was a former general manager of NRECA. Other CoBank endowments benefit Cornell University, Kansas State University’s Foundation for the Arthur Capper Cooperative Center, Oklahoma State University, Texas A&M and the University of California-Davis.