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Internship search essentials

Understand application deadlines

Compare internships

Plan your applications

Explain your experience in an application

Getting started

Get your first internship

Find roles in your first year

How to find internships as a community college student

Internship applications after transferring

Can you fit an internship around classes? Calculate the full week

Remote internships: where to look and what to check

Internship vs. co-op: compare the work and the effect on your degree

Internship vs. registered apprenticeship: which path fits your goal?

Undergraduate case competitions

Applications

Write your first résumé

GPA and transcripts

Write a cover letter

How to email an internship recruiter: examples for common situations

How to run a useful informational interview about an internship field

How to ask for an internship referral

Career fair follow-up: what to send after the conversation

Federal internship résumés: the two-page limit and required details

Not getting internship interviews? Diagnose the stage first

Interviews

Prepare for an interview

STAR interview answer examples

Questions to ask an internship interviewer that help you judge the role

Recorded internship interviews: what to check before you start

Group internship interviews: how to contribute without taking over

How to explain a project in an internship interview

How to prepare for a research internship interview

After an internship interview: thank-you and status email examples

Pay and logistics

Compare hourly pay, stipends and salaries

Is internship credit worth paying for?

Is this internship offer a scam? Check the request, not the logo

How to request an accommodation for an internship interview

How to choose internship housing without missing the expensive details

What will your internship commute cost in time and money?

What to ask about internship pay before accepting

Starting an internship: what to do before day one and in your first week

Research and public service

NSF REU applications: where to apply and what to write

DOE SULI Summer 2027: application dates, eligibility and materials

DOE CCI Summer 2027: application dates, eligibility and materials

NASA OSTEM vs. Pathways

NIH SIP 2027: exact deadlines and how to find a research group

NIST SURF 2027: application timing and a stronger research example

Federal Pathways internships: read the vacancy before writing the résumé

How to find a research mentor and write an email worth answering

Industry search guides

Insurance internships: choose the work, not just the company

Supply-chain internships: planning, purchasing or operations?

HR internships: roles and applications

Manufacturing and quality internships: the work and how to prepare

Agriculture and food-science internships: choose a setting and task

Architecture internships: show your decisions in the portfolio

Museum and archive internships: find the work behind the title

Public-policy internships: choose a role and write a useful memo

Economic consulting internships

Find a specific kind of internship

Campus ambassador programs: which ones are worth your time?

Sales and tech sales internships: choose the work, then prepare

Marketing internships: roles, applications and portfolios

Graphic design internships

IT internships: support, cloud and systems

High school internships: find programs you actually qualify for

Where to find internships

Technology consulting internships: strategy, implementation or data?

Compare routes and prepare your application

Accounting internships: audit, tax and corporate

Business internships: roles and applications

Product internship cases: make a decision, not just a mockup

Startup internships: evaluate the work, hours and actual pay

Data analyst internships

Cybersecurity internship projects: explain an alert, not just a tool

Mechanical engineering internships

Electrical engineering internships

Beauty and fashion internships: where to look and what to send

Music industry internships

Film and television internships: programs, eligibility and work samples

Publishing internships: Summer 2027 applications and department choices

Event marketing internships

Sports internships

Psychology undergraduate internships: NIH, APA and research applications

Internship vs externship vs job simulation: choose the right experience

UMFA Spring 2027 internship

Harn Museum Spring 2027 internships

The Met Spring 2027 high-school internship

Peabody Essex Museum internships

NARA voluntary internships Spring 2027

AGBU Global Leadership Program 2027

LaserHacks 2027

AMA Collegiate Case Competition 2026–2027

NIBS Worldwide Case Competition 2027

HKSI Case Competition 2027

Seton Hall 24-Hour Hackathon 2027

CLARION National Case Competition 2027

Economic consulting: comparisons and practice

Economic consulting internships

Economic versus management consulting internships: which work fits?

Economic consulting case practice: three worked quantitative exercises

Build an economic consulting work sample that another person can reproduce

Hardware: choose the engineering or business task

IC design versus design verification internships

Silicon validation versus production test internships

Hardware internships for bachelor’s, master’s and PhD students

Applications engineering versus chip design internships

Semiconductor internships beyond engineering

Finance: functions and program distinctions

Corporate treasury versus FP&A internships

Financial due diligence internships: what to analyze and how to practice

Private credit versus corporate banking internships

Citadel versus Citadel Securities internships

Blackstone LaunchPad versus Summer Analyst programs

Energy: commercial and technical work

Energy trading, scheduling and risk internships: distinguish the work

Midstream commercial versus engineering internships

Utility internships beyond engineering

Healthcare: technical, clinical and business paths

Medical-device engineering versus commercial internships

Clinical operations versus research internships

Healthcare finance and analytics internships without a clinical role

Creative and consumer businesses

Publishing internships: editorial, publicity and the work between them

Music-business internships: choose a department, not just an artist

Sports-business internships: sponsorship, ticketing and analytics

Beauty-brand marketing versus ecommerce internships

Eligibility, moving costs and communication

Can you do an internship after graduation?

Find an internship when you cannot afford to relocate

Internship email templates: choose the situation before the wording

Original program comparisons

2027 internship deadlines

Published internship pay: hourly, weekly and annualized figures compared

Internship eligibility compared

Internship housing and relocation: compare the support, not the label

Internship skills: distinguish required, preferred and taught on the job

Insurance, audit and real estate

Insurance underwriting versus actuarial internships

Internal versus external audit internships: build your first workpaper

Commercial real estate internships: acquisitions versus asset management

Commercial real estate underwriting case: NOI, value, debt and downside

Operations and hospitality

Procurement internship case: compare suppliers beyond the unit price

Inventory planning internship case: stockouts, replenishment and timing

Hotel internships: revenue management versus operations

Event planning internship project: budget, break-even and run of show

Research and analytical decisions

Recruiting versus people analytics internships

UX research versus product design internships

Market research internship case

Runnable technical work samples

Product analytics SQL project

Software engineering internship project: review and fix a one-cent bug

Culture, conservation and media

Conservation internships: field observation versus GIS analysis

Museum collections versus curatorial internships

Film development versus production internships

SaaS: customers, sales and partnerships

Solutions engineering vs. software engineering internships

Customer success vs. customer support internships

Sales operations vs. revenue operations internships

Partnerships vs. sales internships: what is the difference?

Technical communication and product delivery

Technical writing internships: build a usable portfolio

Developer relations internships: the work and a practical portfolio

Product operations vs. product management internships

Technical program management internships: the work and how to prepare

Finance and commercial decisions

Corporate development vs. corporate strategy internships

Investor relations internships: the work and how to prepare

Pricing analyst internships: what the work involves

Payments risk internships: fraud, disputes and analytical work

Merchandising, accounting and reporting

Ecommerce merchandising vs. buying internships

Revenue accounting internships: billing, cash and earned revenue

Sustainability reporting internships: what the data work involves

Grant writing vs. program evaluation internships

Software, customers and communication

Technical writing internships

Customer success internships

Revenue operations internships

Retail, pricing and investor communication

Retail merchandising internships: buying, planning and allocation

Pricing analyst internships

Investor relations internships

Buildings, products and operating data

Property management internships: operating budgets, tenants and vendors

Construction estimating and project controls internships

Packaging engineering internships

Food product development internships

Sustainability internships

Research, people and public communication

Technology transfer internships

Nonprofit development internships

Compensation and benefits internships

Instructional design internships

Public relations internships

Product design: build your first portfolio evidence

How to Build Product Design Experience Before Your First Internship

Consulting: build evidence before your first internship

How to Build Consulting Experience Before Your First Internship

Finance: build evidence before your first internship

How to Build Finance Experience Before Your First Internship

Investment banking: build evidence before your first internship

How to Build Investment Banking Experience Before Your First Internship

Accounting: build evidence before your first internship

How to Build Accounting Experience Before Your First Internship

Sales: build evidence before your first internship

Build Sales Experience Before Your First Internship

Private equity: build evidence before your first internship

How to Build Private Equity Experience Before Your First Internship

Choose the next experience that fills your evidence gap

Case Competition vs. Personal Project

Early engineering programs for first-years and sophomores

Northeast Microelectronics Internship Program 2027

Corporate fellowships and structured summer programs

Marriott HQ Fellowship Program (Undergraduate) 2027 Guide

Endowment Management Investment Fellowship 2027

Structured employer internship programs

Fidelity Student-Athlete Internship Program 2027

Charles Schwab Intern Academy 2027

Finance early-career programs and insight events

Develop with Deutsche Bank

Wells Fargo Spring Week 2027

Consulting early-career leadership programs

FTI Consulting IMPACT Leadership Program: 2027 guide

Accounting leadership and career-preview programs

HM&M Student Leadership Program 2027: dates, eligibility and application

Summer biomedical research programs

Salk SURF 2027 Application Guide

Mayo Clinic SURF 2027 Application Guide

St. Jude POE 2027 Application Guide

Rockefeller SURF Application Guide

Broad BSRP Application Guide

Startup fellowships and venture experience

Stanford Mayfield Fellows Program 2027

Stanford Accel Leadership Program 2027

Stanford Threshold Venture Fellows 2027

Student innovation and design competitions

Wege Prize 2027

Projects and work experience

Externship vs. internship: work, cost and experience

Forage on your résumé

Parker Dewey micro-internships: pay, applications and getting paid

Is Extern worth paying for? Pricing, cancellation and portfolio permissions

Which early-career programs give you a real work sample before your first internship?

Paid internships for freshmen and sophomores

AM Best 2027 Student Challenge

Accounting early-career programs

RSM Explore (formerly Pathways)

BDO Pathway to Success: 2026–2027 dates and who should register

KPMG Embark Scholars

KPMG Global Advantage Program 2027

Finance discovery programs

JPMorganChase Fellowship: eligibility, application route and preparation

Career.edYOU Academy

Jane Street FTTP 2027 & INSIGHT

Discover Citadel 2027

Point72 Academy National Case Competition 2026

Girls Who Invest 2027 Scholars Program

Early finance program deadlines for first- and second-year students (2026–27)

Morgan Stanley Early Insights 2026

Bracebridge Capital 2027 Sophomore Winternship

BNP Paribas Open Sophomore Opportunity Summit 2027

Citi Freshman Discovery: eligibility, timing and first-year guide

Rothschild Women’s Horizon 2027: dates, eligibility and fast-track path

Jane Street Bridge: Strategy & Product vs Institutional Sales & Trading

Technology apprenticeships

IBM apprenticeships: who can apply and what to prepare

Microsoft Leap: eligibility, applications and the 16-week commitment

Accenture apprenticeships: eligibility and how to prepare an application

Research and scholarships

ORISE research fellowships: choose a project and prepare the application

CLS Scholarship 2027: deadline and eligibility

Open-source programs

Google Summer of Code

MLH Fellowship

Outreachy December 2026

GSoC vs. Outreachy vs. MLH Fellowship

Funded research routes

DAAD RISE Germany 2027

Caltech SURF for visiting students

MIT MSRP General vs. Biology

Amgen Scholars U.S.

CERN summer research

DOE SULI vs. CCI: Summer 2027 dates and which application to choose

OIST Research Internship Spring 2027

Environment and scientific computing

NOAA Hollings Scholarship

NOAA Lapenta internships

NCAR SIParCS 2027

Arts, collections and public service

Getty Marrow internships

LA County Arts internships for college students

LA Bloomberg Arts internships for high-school students

Academy Gold Rising

Library of Congress Junior Fellows

Public-interest technology and application planning

Princeton PIT-SF 2027

“Funded” summer research

2026–2027 application calendar

Public finance and policy internships

Federal Reserve Board internships

New York Fed Summer 2027 internships

CBO summer internships

FDIC Financial Institution Intern program

SEC Scholars vs. Pathways

GAO internships

Treasury internships

CBPP internships

Brookings internships

Public finance and policy internships

International organization internships

World Bank WBG Pioneers internships

World Bank Treasury Summer 2027 internship

IMF Fund Internship Program

OECD and IEA internships

WTO internships

UNICEF internships: eligibility, stipends and a useful application

UNDP internships

UNHCR internships

Are UN internships paid? Compare Secretariat, UNICEF, UNDP and UNHCR rules

ADB internships

Build a project you can explain in an application

Choose an internship portfolio project from the actual job description

Sales pipeline analysis project: reconcile the export before forecasting

SaaS retention analysis project

Customer support analysis project

Partner pilot analysis project

Price-volume-mix analysis project

Revenue reconciliation project

Sustainability data-quality project

Nonprofit evaluation project

Build-versus-buy analysis project

Earnings analysis project

Current student case competitions

EY/KU National Business Challenge 2027

ISM Global Case Competition 2027

Apply to a specific employer and team

ServiceNow internships

TJX merchandising internships: buying, allocation and the application

Travelers internships: Claim or Risk Control?

Palo Alto Networks internships versus LEAP: choose the right entry route

Target internships: store leadership, corporate or supply chain?

Choose and prepare for a research placement

JAX Summer Student Program 2027

Biomedical research internship, short course or academic-year fellowship?

FAU Harbor Branch internships: research fit and application preparation

Apply for a legislative-session internship

Tennessee Legislative Internship 2027

Distinguish aerospace fellowships, training and challenges

NASA L’SPACE: training, internship pathways and the real time commitment

NASA NCAS Student Challenge 2026–27: registration, portfolio and awards

Brooke Owens Fellowship 2027

Can you afford the internship?

Can you keep a part-time job during an internship?

How much cash do you need before your first internship paycheck?

Make the schedule work

What to do when your internship starts before school ends

How to choose an internship as a student parent or caregiver

Choose an experience worth taking

How to tell whether an internship is actually good

How to choose between two internship offers

Find a route that fits your experience

Internships for adult learners, career changers and returning students

Should you apply for an internship when you lack the experience?

Build experience

Which early-career programs require prior experience? 2026–27 evidence

How to build product management experience before your first internship

How to build software engineering experience before your first internship

How to Build Business Operations Experience Before Your First Internship

Freshman vs. sophomore internship strategy: what to prioritize each year

How to build engineering experience before your first internship

How to build cybersecurity experience before your first internship

Visa Sophomore Software Engineering Internship 2027

Valero Freshman Engineering Summit 2027

Early-career eligibility data

Freshman and sophomore program GPA requirements

Freshman and sophomore program citizenship and work-authorization rules

Do early-career programs require a specific major? 2026–27 data

Early-career program eligibility

Do early-career programs restrict where you study or live? 2026–27 data

Early-career deadline data

Freshman and sophomore early-career program deadlines: 2026–27 calendar

Early-career access and logistics data

Early-career program costs and time commitment: 2026–27 comparison

Accounting early-career relationship data

Accounting early-career programs

Accounting early-career programs for freshmen and sophomores

Academic internship programs

The Washington Center 2027

Professional-services early-career programs

EY Career Residency 2028: phases, pay, eligibility and 360 Careers path

PwC Engineer Your Career vs Destination CPA 2027

Current finance discovery programs

Evercore Spring Insight 2027

Barclays Discovery Programme

BNY Freshman Jumpstart vs Sophomore Summit 2027

Jane Street IN FOCUS 2027: eligibility, tracks and application status

Transamerica iLEAD Finance Leadership Summit 2027

PGIM Sophomore Externship 2027: Public & Private Credit vs Real Estate

BlackRock Spring Insight 2027

Blackstone Future Leaders Spring Insight 2027

Citi Early Identification

Professional-services early-career programs

Aon Actuarial Career Discovery 2027

RSM Elevate 2027 + Summer 2028 internship

S.R. Snodgrass IMPACT Summer Leadership Program 2027

EXPERIENCE M+N 2027: deadline, GPA and what the leadership program is

HBK REVEAL 2027: GPA, rolling admission and June 3 leadership conference

Sisterson STEEL 2027

Disability-access and public-service programs

AAPD Summer 2027 internship: eligibility, pay and October 1 deadline

Workforce Recruitment Program fall 2026

CHCI Congressional Internship 2027

Gaming and product early-career programs

Roblox Product Management Intern Summer 2027

Roblox Product Design Intern Summer 2027

Ubisoft Toronto NEXT 2026–27

Media and science communication programs

T. Howard Foundation internships 2027

Science News Spring 2027 internship

National Geographic Society internships 2027

Career-access programs

MLT Career Prep 2029 cohort

Navy research programs

NREIP 2027: Navy research internships, eligibility and stipends

SEAP 2027: Navy laboratory research for high-school students

Current undergraduate research programs

Cold Spring Harbor URP 2027

Cubist Quant Academy

Cubist Quant Academy 2027 Developers: Program, Eligibility & Interviews

Early-career discovery programs

Goldman Sachs Emerging Leaders Series: 2026 deadline and eligibility

Jane Street AMP 2027: dates, eligibility and $5,000 scholarship

Bain First Forward: eligibility, HireVue and BEL/CREW choice

JPMorganChase Winning Women

PIMCO Prep 2027: program guide for second-year students

Deutsche Bank Spring into Banking 2027

Microsoft Explore internships

IMC Launchpad US Guide

NVIDIA Ignite: freshman and sophomore pre-internship guide

Capital One Student Summits vs Early Internship Program

Microsoft Discovery Program

BCG AI-ship 2027: eligibility, timing and FAST FORWARD path

McKinsey #explore Operations

Optiver FutureFocus

Optiver Career Kickstarter

Goldman Sachs Possibilities Series

Choose the work behind the internship

Advertising agency internships

Commercial banking internships: credit, clients and how to apply

Journalism internships

Search fund internships: how to find a role worth doing

Work in games

Video game internships

Choose your next step

How to put case-competition work on an internship application

Which first finance experience should you choose?

Early-career program application materials: what to prepare for 2026–27

Paid research internships for first- and second-year students in 2027

Visa sophomore software internship

Early-finance program fast tracks: what participation actually promises

Research internship recommendation letters: plan the real deadline

Data analysis practice projects

Data analyst internship project: revenue after split refunds

Data analyst internship project: a cohort that keeps its denominator

Research analyst internship project: when survey groups have different sizes

Operations analyst internship project: resolved time and open-ticket backlog

Data analyst internship project: compare delivery timestamps across time zones

Supply-chain internship project: find the stockout before a replenishment

Data analyst internship project: duplicate events versus equal-value purchases

Data analyst internship project: report rates when a denominator is zero

Data analyst internship project: join only information known at event time

Business analyst internship project: keep records with missing department data

Software engineering practice projects

Software engineering internship project: handle overlapping API pages

Software engineering internship project: distinguish retries from permanent errors

Software engineering internship project: prevent stale search results

Software engineering internship project: parse commas inside CSV fields

Software engineering internship project: make a changed CSV schema visible

Software engineering internship project: handle a clock time that occurs twice

Software engineering internship project: make form errors recoverable

Software engineering internship project: build a usable download table

Software engineering internship project: test a conditional HTTP cache

Software engineering internship project: keep a search URL intact

Operations and finance practice projects

Operations internship project: explain why a PivotTable counts money

Planning internship project: separate baseline demand from a promotion

Operations internship project: compare workload with available capacity

Supply-chain internship project: show the outlier in supplier lead time

Finance internship project: show how volume changes allocated unit cost

Finance internship project: reconcile invoices with collected cash

Finance internship project: explain a price-and-volume variance

Supply-chain internship project: find concentrated inventory spend

Operations internship project: model walking distance for separate picks

Finance internship project: match refunds to original payments

Marketing and communications practice projects

Marketing internship project: reconcile inconsistent campaign tags

Marketing internship project: distinguish clickers from click events

Marketing internship project: find double-counted conversions

SEO internship project: build a content inventory using canonical identity

Marketing internship project: explain conversion differences without inventing a winner

Marketing research internship project: count themes in open-text responses

Content design internship project: choose useful image alternatives

Communications internship project: report outreach response rates honestly

Content operations internship project: plan reuse without counting it as new reporting

Marketing analytics internship project: handle a zero-conversion campaign

Research and design practice projects

Research internship project: preserve missing observations in a summary

Research internship project: catch mixed measurement units

Design internship project: explain what a truncated chart exaggerates

Research internship project: repair a survey question with two interpretations

UX internship project: audit a fictional application form

Research internship project: write a dataset README someone else can use

UX internship project: report task completion without dropping failed attempts

Design internship project: test reading order in responsive cards

Research operations internship project: separate issue severity from confidence

Design internship project: hand off a responsive layout with testable conditions

Check 2027 application dates