Multiple Developers at One Company?

You seem confused and/or misinformed. Seen this page?

https://developer.apple.com/support/compare-memberships/

The process is confusing enough without having someone translate it and risk making it more so. Best to get the most current info straight from Apple, not anecdotes from strangers on a forum.

I feel like there's two or three different problems that you're asking about, all mixed up together.

First off, if your media relations folks have control of the account and are preventing everyone else from doing useful things, then you have a major administrative problem at your university, and need to solve that at an administrative level. As a business entity, the university should only need one business developer account (for publishing applications in the App Store publicly), one university account (for internal use by the students in software development classes) and one enterprise account (for internal use by the faculty and staff). If your university is big enough to be multiple separate businesses, or you want to argue with Apple that you are, that's an argument you need to have with Apple.

Second, why on Earth would your students want to publish applications through your university account when they could just as easily (their own developer account would be $100/year, and compared to tuition prices and/or equipment prices, that's nothing) do it themselves?

Third, "we have been told that one company can only have one developer account". By whom? There are different types of developer accounts, and it's entirely possible and feasible for one organization to have two different developer memberships for different purposes.

1. The administration wants to have control over any content that bears the university's name, and that is their perogative. We are members of the University Developer Program, and the university is enrolled in the Apple Developer Program. We aren't in the Enterprise Program, but that's not germane to this issue.
2. Our students are writing apps as part of their coursework, and are not interested in spending $100 that they don't have. In addition, once the students graduate, we will lose control of the app, and thus lose the opportunity to give future teams a chance to work on ongoing projects.
3. I have had multiple conversations with people at Apple who have said that there can be only one company developer account at our university. If you can provide the name and address of a counterexample, that would be very useful and most appreciated!

One developer account can have lots of members and those members/admins can send multiple apps to the iTunes store.

Your communications folks can review the apps and approve them - they probably already do something like that for your web pages. I agree, if they are 'hogging' the account, then you have bigger problems with getting your app out, none having to do with Apple. If they don't trust anyone to produce a branded app, I understand their need to control that.

If students are creating the apps, they should do that under the University Program, unless they want it in the store under their name... and to pay the $100. If the student wants to put it in the store, they will need the $100.

The one developer account per business seems clear. One University program account and one Enterprise account are also allowed in the same business. Each of these accounts can produce multiple apps, likely what Wisconson is doing?

We have multiple departments producing apps, and we send them to the store using our one Apple Developer account. IT is responsible for that account.

fsumobile said "If the student wants to put it in the store, they will need the $100."

They'll also need someone of legal age to foster their account if they aren't old enough. It won't be under their name if that is the case.

Hi fsumobile,.

You have mentioned 'We have multiple departments producing apps, and we send them to the store using our one Apple Developer account. IT is responsible for that account'

We face similar issues where we have multiple developers releasing apps. However currently these apps are released across the individial developers Apple dev accounts. We then place our bank details on the accounts to receive revenues. We'd like to set up our Apple developer account with multiple apps in their from a range of different developers. The question is, can we do this and if so can we give rights management so that individual developers have access to this account but not access to other developers apps?

Thanks