Read the candidate-stage language with its source

The table summarizes the education or candidate-stage distinctions coded for each record. It is not a complete eligibility checklist or an automated decision. Open the source for GPA, age, citizenship or residency, location, participation limits and other applicable conditions.

Candidate-stage comparison; source review September 16, 2026
ProgramTerm if explicitPublished candidate-stage evidenceSources
Analysis Group — Generalist summer analystNot assignedRising undergraduate seniors and first-year master’s students in relevant fields; health-care research has a separate track.
Cornerstone Research — Summer analystNot assignedThe overview describes the eight-week summer program. Its full-time graduation-year language is not transferred to internship eligibility.
BRG — Summer associateNot assignedCompleting junior undergraduate year or currently in a master’s program; exact role conditions still apply.
NERA — Summer internshipNot assignedFinal-year undergraduates and current master’s or PhD candidates are described.
Ares — Summer Internship ProgramSummer 2027Current students expecting graduation December 2027–August 2028; all majors welcome, with role-specific requirements.
Citadel — Citadel Associate Program summer internshipNot assignedRising seniors; an eleven-week program with investment-team exposure.
Citadel Securities — Quantitative Trader Intern (US), Trading and ResearchNot assignedThe posting names a bachelor’s degree in quantitative fields. It does not supply an explicit graduation window or a 2027 cohort in the reviewed text.
Synopsys — Internships and student placementsNot assignedUniversity enrollment is required; penultimate or final year is described as typical. Read each role for degree and field.
Arm — InternshipsNot assignedUse the individual role for degree and enrollment requirements; the overview spans several functions.
Shell — U.S. assessed internshipsNot assignedThe U.S. page is a program entry point; degree and other conditions must be checked for the exact opportunity.
Targa Resources — Internship programNot assignedA functional internship program is described; an exact degree window is not coded from the overview.
Johnson & Johnson — General internship overviewNot assignedCurrently enrolled students pursuing a bachelor’s or higher degree; individual programs and roles can add requirements.
Abbott — Student internship routesNot assignedThe page covers multiple student and development routes. Full-time development-program conditions are not assigned to internships.
Penguin Random House — Summer internshipSummer 2027Rising seniors, graduates or workforce-ready applicants; no college degree required. At least 18, U.S.-based during work and eligible to work there; exact role requirements apply.
Warner Music Group — Emerging Talent AssociateNot assignedAt least 18 and U.S.-based; degree and non-degree applicants welcome. Business & Legal Affairs requires a J.D. in progress; creative applications require a portfolio.
NBA — Summer internshipSummer 2027Check the general internship’s own criteria; HBCU Fellowship criteria are not transferred to this program.
NBA — HBCU FellowshipSummer 2027Undergraduate and graduate students from HBCUs; read the fellowship’s exact application requirements.
Capital One — Business Analyst Intern R244322Summer 2027Pursuing a bachelor’s or higher degree, degree-completion conditions through August 2028, and continuation in the same course of study after the internship.
U.S. Department of Energy — SULISpring 2027Eligible undergraduates and specified recent graduates within the program’s two-year rule; GPA 3.0, coursework, age, citizenship/residency and participation conditions also apply.
U.S. Department of Energy — Community College Internships (CCI)Spring 2027Current full- or part-time community/two-year college students; GPA at least 2.7, a waiver statement below 3.0, and additional coursework, age and citizenship/residency conditions.
Dominion Energy — Intern — Power Contracts & OriginationNot assignedBachelor’s student graduating in 2028 or 2029 with GPA at least 2.5; specified fields are preferred. No exact internship cohort is assigned here.
Dominion Energy — Intern — Electric Transmission ServicesNot assignedCompleted freshman year and GPA above 3.0; rising sophomores/juniors and graduation May 2028 or later are preferred. Driver’s license required.
Florida Power & Light / NextEra Energy — Summer Intern — Finance/AccountingNot assignedActive bachelor’s or higher study and GPA at least 3.0; a ten-week commitment beginning by June 1 is stated without assigning a year here.
Johnson & Johnson — Clinical Operations Intern R-098089Not assignedThe role specifies fifth- or sixth-year university students in the named life-science/medical fields and at least three days weekly for six months.

No requirement is transferred from an employer's full-time program, another office or a different internship. Where the reviewed overview does not settle a degree window, the table says so rather than borrowing one.

Keep a preference separate from a mandatory condition

Read qualification headings and the wording within them. A preferred major is not necessarily an exclusive list; a mandatory enrollment requirement is not merely a suggestion. Where the posting is unclear, preserve the ambiguity and ask the recruiting contact rather than selecting the interpretation you prefer.

Do not use a high GPA or strong project to erase an explicit degree or timing condition. Equally, do not reject yourself because you lack a skill that the source explicitly says interns will learn. A useful application note has separate columns for mandatory conditions, preferences, evidence and unresolved questions.

Match the actual degree and completion date

A graduation window may concern your current degree, your latest full-time degree or a specific course of study. Read the complete condition. Admission to a future master's program does not automatically satisfy a requirement to continue the same course after the internship.

Use a concrete timeline: application date, degree-completion date, internship period and expected enrollment afterward. Mark what is confirmed and what is planned. A ceremony date should not replace a conferral or completion date unless the form asks for it.

When a program explicitly accepts recent graduates or non-degree candidates, retain its other requirements. An exception to enrollment is not an exception to every age, location or work-authorization condition.

Understand the limits of a summary table

This resource is built from the same small research cohort used by our other comparison pages. Purposive sample of 24 named program or requisition records reviewed September 16, 2026. It mixes explicitly dated 2027 programs with general program descriptions and undated-cohort requisitions. It is not a vacancy census, employer ranking, eligibility determination or estimate of market-wide pay or disclosure. Unknown values remain unknown. Records from one employer or program family are not independent observations.

A row represents the named program or requisition, not an employer-wide policy. Repeated employers, shared program pages and different country scopes remain visible. The sample was selected to investigate useful differences, not randomly sampled to estimate what all internships offer. The downloadable JSON preserves field-level source references and explicit missing values.

The summaries deliberately do not produce a yes-or-no verdict for a reader. They omit no missing field by silently calling it unrestricted, and they do not substitute for the current program instructions. No acceptance rate or probability of selection is inferred from eligibility language.

Use three queues and one precise question

Put clear matches in an application queue, material ambiguities in a question queue and explicit unmet mandatory conditions in an alternative-route queue. This is an organizing method, not an employer decision. You can continue other accurate applications while waiting for an answer.

Ask: “For [requisition], the requirement says [short wording]. My degree and enrollment timeline is [facts]. Which recruiting route applies?” Preserve the answer with the role and date. Do not change an application response merely to pass a filter.

A good search outcome is a set of opportunities you can honestly pursue. It is not a large list built by assuming that every unmentioned condition is favorable.