Summer Internship Programs and Resources (Not Affiliated with Harvard—Apply Direct)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

☼ Freshman-Friendly Ideas
Some summer programs place restrictions on the year of study for eligible students. Freshman-friendly opportunities are identified with the sun symbol (☼).

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Advertising and Public Relations

• American Association of Advertising Agencies MAIP (Multicultural Advertising Intern Program)
• Advertising Club of New York
• APCO (Corporate Communications) ☼
• Arnold Worldwide
• Burson Marsteller ☼
• Google ☼
• Omnicom Group (includes BBDO, DDB, TBWA and Interbrand)
• Penn, Schoen and Berland (public opinion research and branding) ☼
• Weber Shandwick ☼
  

Biotech and Pharmaceuticals:

• Abbott
• Biogen ☼
• Biomedical Science Careers Program ☼
• Genentech
• GlaxoSmithKline
• Genzyme ☼
• HireHealth.com (use keyword "internship") ☼
• J.Craig Vetter Institute (genomics research)
• Merck ☼
• Pfizer ☼
  

Consulting (does not include firms participating in On-Campus Recruiting)

• APCO (corporate communications) ☼
• Analysis Group (economic, financial, and strategy analysis)
• Booz Allen Hamilton
• Cornerstone Research (economic, financial, accounting, and marketing analysis)
• Eduventures (education) ☼
• Ithaka (education) ☼
• LMI Government Consulting ☼
• Northbridge Group (economic and strategy analysis re: electricity and natural gas industry) ☼
• Penn,Schoen and Berland (political and corporate public opinion research—locations in NYC and Washington) ☼
  
  

Economic Research and Financial Regulatory

• Federal Reserve Board ☼
• Securities and Exchange Commission (Summer Honors College Program) ☼

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Engineering and Manufacturing

• Boeing
• Colgate Palmolive (opportunities for biology, chemistry, bio-chemistry and engineering students)
• General Electric (global) ☼
• IBM ☼
• Motorola (global) ☼
• Owens Corning
• Rolls Royce (global)
• Verizon ☼

Entertainment and the Arts

• ABC Television
• Academy of Television Arts and Sciences ☼
• Arena Stage ☼
• Black Entertainment Television (BET)
• Comcast Entertainment Group (includes E Network and Style—select internships) ☼
• Disney Theme Parks and Resorts ☼
• Fox Entertainment
• Industrial Light and Magic (Lucas Digital Ltd)
• International Television and Radio Society Foundation
• John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
• Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) ☼
• MTV ☼
• National Endowment for the Arts ☼
• New Line Cinema ☼
• Sony Pictures ☼
• Warner Brothers ☼
• Wolftrap Foundation for the Performing Arts ☼
  

Entrepreneurial Ventures

• Y Combinator ☼
  

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Environment

• Alaska Conservation Foundation ☼
• Environmental Careers Organization ☼
• Orion Society ☼
• Resources for the Future ☼
  

Fashion, Style, and Retail

• Federated Dept. Stores
• Fairchild Publications (includes Women’s Wear Daily) ☼
• Fashion Net ☼
• J. Crew
• Limited Brands
• Neiman Marcus (use keyword "internship")
• Liz Claiborne
• Style Careers (select "intern/entry level" in job function)
• L’Oreal (Brandstorm Weekend is the primary recruiting event for summer internships)

Finance and Investment Management (does not include opportunities listed in On-Campus Recruiting)

• BNP Paribas
• Credit Suisse
• Goldman Sachs (global locations)
• Merrill Lynch (global locations)
• Morgan Stanley (global locations)
• Rothschild (global locations)

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Government

• Cato Institute (public policy research) ☼
• City of New York Summer Internship Program ☼
• Congressional Black Caucus ☼
• Congressional Budget Office
• FCC
• Federal Bureau of Investigations
• Helsinki Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe ☼
• Heritage Foundation
• Institute for Defense and Disarmament ☼
• National Endowment for the Arts
• NASA ☼
• Securities and Exchange Commission (see Summer Honors Program)
• State Department
• Supreme Court
• USA Jobs ( opportunities across the U.S. government—enter “Internships” in job title box and search)
• U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
• White House Internship ☼
  

Healthcare and Science (also see Biotech and Pharmaceuticals)

• AAAS—Advancing Science, Serving Society ☼
• Albert Einstein College of Medicine—Summer Undergraduate Research Program
• Argonne National Laboratory - DOE Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships Program (SULI) and Student Research Participation Programs ☼
• Baylor University Summer Medical and Research Training Program (SMART)
• Cold Spring Harbor—Summer Undergraduate Research Program
• Columbia University Earth and Environmental Sciences Summer Internship Program
• Emory—Summer Undergraduate Research Program at Emory (SURE) ☼
• Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center
• Gerstner Sloan-Kettering—Summer Undergraduate Research Program
• Great Lakes Water Institute—Summer Internships in Aquatic Sciences (NSF funded)
• Institut Pasteur (Paris)
• Jackson Laboratory—Mammalian Genetics ☼
• Mayo Clinic Summer Undergraduate Research Program
• MIT Haystack Observatory ☼
• MIT Lincoln Laboratory
• Mount Sinai—Summer Undergraduate Research Program ☼
• NASA Undergraduate Student Research Project
• NASA
• National Institutes of Health Undergraduate Scholarship Program ☼
• National Institutes of Health Summer Internship Program in Bio-medical Research ☼
• National Science Foundation Research for Undergraduates
• NYU Center for Neural Science—Summer Research Program
• Rockefeller University—Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship
• Scripps Research Institute—Summer Internship Program in Immunology
• Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History—Research Training Program ☼
• Southern California Earthquake Center—Summer Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) and Undergraduates Studies in Earthquake Information Technology ☼
• Stanford Summer Research Program in Biomedical Sciences (SSRP) ☼
• University of Arizona Minority Health Disparities Summer Research
• University of California at San Francisco—Summer Undergraduate Research Opportunities
• University of Colorado Summer Multicultural Access to Research Training
• University of Montana Environmental Summer Research Program
• University of Minnesota—Dept. of Chemistry Summer Research Program
• University of Texas Medical Branch—Summer Undergraduate Research Program ☼
• Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute—Summer Student Internship

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International Development

• Carter Center
• Drop in the Ocean
• Idealist
• Microfinance Gateway (Select “Internships” in left margin)
• Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) ☼
• USAid ☼

Mathematics

• American Mathematical Society (links to internship programs for math concentrators)

Media—Electronic

• CBS
• Disney and ABC (Select “Job Openings” for ABC internship or “Student Programs” for Disney)
• International Radio and Television Society Foundation ☼
• MSNBC ☼
• National Public Radio (NPR) ☼
• NBC/Universal ☼
• Time Warner (includes CNN) ☼
• Turner Broadcasting System

Media—Print

• American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) ☼
• Associated Press
• Atlantic Media Company (includes Atlantic Monthly)
• Boston Globe ☼
• Boston Magazine ☼
• Christian Science Monitor ☼
• Conde Nast
• Dow Jones (Wall Street Journal) ☼
• Economist (London)
• Financial Times
• Institute for Humane Studies ☼
• Newsweek
• New York Times Company
• USA Today
• Washington Post

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Museums, Parks, and Zoos

• Guggenheim Museum (including NYC, Venice, and Bilbao, Spain)
• Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
• Museum of Natural History ☼
• National Air and Space Museum ☼
• National Museum of American History ☼
• National Zoo ☼
• Smithsonian ☼

Public Service

• Children’s Defense Fund ☼
• Human Rights Watch—Everett Public Service Summer Internship
• Idealist
• Institute for Humane Studies ☼
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ☼
• International Environment & Development ☼

Publishing

• Bookjobs.com ☼
• Harper Collins
• Random House

Sports

• Adidas (U.S. and Germany)
• American Quarter Horse Association ☼
• ESPN
• Octagon (sports and entertainment consulting and marketing)
• PGA Tour
• Major League Baseball
• National Basketball Association
• National Football League
• National Hockey League
• Nike
• United States Olympic Committee
  

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