Start building your career with an internship!
These opportunities give you the support network you want — and the real-world experience you need. An internship at the University of Michigan offers students practical, hands-on experience that bridges academic theory and real-world applications. Under professional guidance, students develop vital skills and clarify career goals. Internships enhance resumes, provide networking opportunities, and improve employability. They are integral to the educational journey, fostering both academic and professional growth, and preparing students for successful careers by merging classroom learning with industry practices.
The University of Michigan has a wide variety of ways for students to get involved in engaged learning, internships are just one of many ways. Explore past and present internship opportunities that are available or that other students have participated in to get an idea of all the different experiences that are waiting for you!
Though we understand this is not a comprehensive list of internships that are currently available or that other students have participate in, we continue to work with the academic units to update this list, continue to check out this space or with your academic advisor to learn more about opportunities within your school or college.
Internship Opportunities
- College of Architecture & Urban Plannning
- Stamps School of Art and Design
- Ross School of Business
- School of Dentistry
- Marsal School of Education
- College of Engineering
- School of Environment and Sustainability
- School of Information
- School of Kinesiology
- Law School
- College of Literature, Science, and Arts
- School of Medicine
- School of Music, Theatre & Dance
- School of Nursing
- School of Pharmacy
- School of Public Health
- School of Public Policy
- School of Social Work
College of Architecture & Urban Plannning
Looking for more information for College of Architecture & Urban Planning internships?
Internships are ever evolving. View more information below, as well as contact information to get started today.
Stamps School of Art and Design
Looking for your dream job?
Stamps alumni have landed dream jobs at some of the biggest names in the fields of tech, apparel, animation, advertising, publishing, and more — including Apple, Twitter, Google, Amazon, Netflix, Nike, Ralph Lauren, Warner Brothers, Disney, and Ogilvy.
The fact that Stamps grads secure highly coveted creative jobs at a higher-than-average national rate is in no way accidental. The Stamps School has a number of initiatives that prepare students for their post-college career paths, including DNEP, Culture Corps, and past student experiences.
Learn more in the Stamps Curriculum Through a Career Development Lens PDF.
(access restricted to current students)
Ross School of Business
Connect with outstanding student talent!
Ross School of Business Career Development Office (OCD) provides an opportunity for companies to connect with outstanding student talent that will advance the company in today’s dynamic business environment. Ross students seek an internship experience that allows them to develop professional skills through real-world experiences. Ross Students work on real projects at organizations across many areas of business throughout the summer.
School of Dentistry
Research Training Opportunities in Dentistry
The School of Dentistry offers research training opportunities for undergraduate students, graduate students, post-docs, visiting faculty, and volunteers.
Marsal School of Education
Internship are a critical component of learning
Internships provide an opportunity for students to engage in integral hands-on work experience that complements the knowledge they gain through coursework.
The internship is a critical component of the Higher Education master’s program in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education (CSHPE). For further information about the CSHPE master’s internship program, please visit here.
Various Marsal School units have resources to help connect students to appropriate internships:
College of Engineering
Put theory into practice through Co-ops, Internships, and Research
Internships and Co-Ops are both opportunities for students to apply their knowledge in real world environments. They also provide students the opportunity to become familiar with a potential employer. There are many benefits to an internship or co-op:
- An opportunity to explore a career
- An opportunity to network
- Establishing mentors
- An introduction to the field’s culture and etiquette
- Acquiring new skills
- Getting a real-world perspective on an occupation (How much overtime do employees really work? How much time is spent behind a desk versus in the field?)
School of Environment and Sustainability
Compliment your learning with an internship at SEAS
There are many reasons to seek an internship to complement your formal studies. Internships provide valuable professional development experience. Student interns can improve their skills, gain work experience, network with professionals in their chosen field, and learn about the different sectors and organizational cultures. A significant portion of successful internships leads to full-time job offers.
School of Information
Did you know that 94% of students say internships made them better prepared for career success?
The Career Development Office coaches students on conducting a successful internship search, engages them throughout the experience and empowers them to see how internships connect to their career goals and professional development.
Practical experience through internships is highly encouraged in all degree programs and required in the MHI program. This form of experience-based learning allows students to apply what they’ve learned in the classroom. Students are able to reflect on the experience while considering how this will impact their future actions. Through internships, students can develop their identities as information professionals.
Benefits:
- The internship is related to what is taught and researched at UMSI and connects to the student’s coursework and future career goals
- The internship provides hands-on professional work that helps the student develop new learning, skills and abilities
- The student has a professional supervisor with three or more years of experience who provides mentoring for a successful internship experience
School of Kinesiology
Kinesiology Career Development
Available to support graduate and undergraduate students through all aspects of career and professional development. If you are having difficulties, please reach out to KinesCareers@umich.edu.
Note: To schedule appointments with Brooke, Kelli, or Alicia, you must log into and create an account in Careers Kinnect, using your umich email. address.
Law School
Externship Programming
Michigan Law offers five distinct externship programs. You may propose your own full- or part-time externship with an organization, or you may choose from Michigan Law’s established international externship programs. If you would like to participate in one of our externship programs, schedule a conversation with Professor Amy Sankaran, director of our externship and pro bono programs, or attend one of our information sessions.
Every summer, our students work for employers across the country and around the world—in law firms, public defender offices, courts, government agencies, NGOs, and more.
Please note that specific internship names are only accessible to current law students. UM Login will be required to access.
Examples of past experiences can be located here.
College of Literature, Science, and Arts
Internships in the US and abroad
LSA students intern in many different industries and work in a variety of roles both in the U.S. and abroad. Here are some of the positions LSA students have recently held:
- Marketing Intern at IBM
- Software Engineer at Target
- Archaeological and Anthropology Excavation Intern in Greece
- Intern at Canadian Parliament
- Legal Intern at Washtenaw County Trial Court
- Research Intern at a University Research Lab
- Volunteer Coordinator at Brilliant Detroit
- Research & Analysis Intern at Kellogg Eye Center
School of Medicine
Research Training Opportunities in Medicine
The Michigan Medicine offers research training opportunities for undergraduate students, graduate students, post-docs, visiting faculty, and volunteers.
School of Music, Theatre & Dance
Real-world learning experiences
Real-world learning experiences are essential to the success of students as emerging professionals in the world of the performing arts, and internships are one avenue towards gaining that experience. The EXCEL Internship Fund provides students grant awards up to $1,000 to offset expenses related to underpaid or underfunded internship experiences. (In extraordinary cases, students may receive awards up to $1,500.)
Each year, UMS and SMTD select students to intern for 5-7 weeks during the summer with a professional dance, theater, or music ensemble that UMS plans to present during its upcoming season. UMS presents ensembles from all over the world, and so students will likely be assigned to intern in major metropolitan or international locations. Students:
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- Work with the University Musical Society.
- Spend the summer with an artist or ensemble.
School of Nursing
Externship Opportunities in Nursing
Nursing BSN offers externship for students. Various opportunities exist.
School of Pharmacy
Internship Experiences in Pharmacy
The Department of Pharmacy Services Internship Program strives to foster the professional development of pharmacy students by providing them with the abilities, skills and knowledge necessary to thrive as future pharmacists and by exposing them to health system pharmacy as a whole through shadowing opportunities and weekly speakers. Additionally, the program aims to promote progressive thinking by providing students with the opportunity to take part in innovative projects that leave a lasting impact on the institution.
School of Public Health
Launch Your Public Health Career with an Internship
Internships provide valuable opportunities for University of Michigan School of Public Health students to apply public health skills and coursework concepts within a work setting, explore career preferences and goals, and build meaningful connections within the public health field.
Internships are required for all residential Master of Public Health (MPH), Master of Health Services Administration (MHSA), and Master of Health Informatics (MHI) students. Undergraduate, Master of Science (MS), and PhD students are welcome to complete internships if they choose to do so.
School of Public Policy
Policy-related Internship
We work individually with students to support their internship search and help them secure internships appropriate to their career needs and goals, identify and secure funding for unpaid or low-paid internships, and provide leadership coaching throughout their experience.
Internship Reports for Reference
School of Social Work
Internship Field Placements
School of Social Work (SSW) field education presents you with multiple opportunities to become a part of the professional social work community, where you will learn to integrate classroom knowledge with practice and develop your social work skills and identity. Field education provides an opportunity to participate in “hands-on” meaningful service and gain invaluable professional experience.