BALTIMORE, Md., June 29 -- The University of Baltimore issued the following news release:

Capstone course pairs business, design students

Deliverables, slide decks, promotional materials, style guides-it's all conceptual until you have a real client and hard deadline.

Graduating Integrated Design students at The University of Baltimore get a taste of the creative pressure they will experience in a professional setting in Seminar in Publications Design course, one of two capstone courses for the M.A. in Integrated Design program.

Split in teams, they get connected with real clients-their entrepreneurial-minded peers from UBalt's Merrick School of Business. They have to become experts in that client's business plan, research competition...