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Career and Internship Opportunities

Arts Internships

View the Arts Job and Internship Toolkit. Explore programs that support internships in the arts and are open to current Stanford students in any major. 

Stanford Career Education

Stanford Career Education supports you early and often through a network of career communities that help you explore opportunities and make meaningful connections. By providing customized support based on academic communities, the specialized staff helps you discover your career interests, interact with mentors, employers and alumni, and find opportunities, research, and on-campus jobs.

The Bill Lane Center Student Programs

The Bill Lane Center for the American West offers both research assistantships and internships for students. Both programs are open to students from all years and all disciplines.

  • Research assistantships, with faculty mentorship, are available on pre-arranged projects and for self-designed projects part-time during the academic year and full-time in the summer.
  • The internships program includes Schultz Fellowships and West internships during the summer to work with organizations throughout the West. Through these paid internships, students can explore careers in natural history, conservation, ecology, land use, museum curation, resource management, water, energy, literature, policy, politics, and more.

The Bill Lane Center also offers Environmental Journalism internships for credit.

FSI Student Programs – Summer Internships

The Freeman Spogli Institute (FSI) offers Global Policy internships and Field Research internships each summer. FSI provides placement, mentorship and a stipend to students engaging in off-campus internships at international policy and international affairs organizations. The internships are open to students at all levels and from all departments, with a preference for undergraduates entering their junior and senior years.

Public Service Fellowships and Internships

An online searchable database containing approximately 500 fellowships, internships and other established service programs collected from Internet and print resources.

Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship Program (SULI)

SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory is a world-renowned laboratory with research opportunities in physics, chemistry, materials and environmental sciences, scientific computing, and many engineering fields. SLAC’s summer internship program offers exciting opportunities for undergraduate students majoring in science or engineering to conduct research.

Stanford in New York Internship Opportunities

Learn about internship placement and view examples of the types of opportunities available in the Stanford in New York program.