We all know that internships are a fantastic way to gain valuable hands-on experience, but it’s hard to commit to a summer internship when you know you need to make money, too. But what if that internship is the experience that’s going to open the doors for your future job?
The Fleishman Center for Career and Professional Development recognizes this issue and administers funding to sponsor talented undergraduate and graduate students so they have financial support while completing summer internships.
Internship Funds
You may be eligible to receive funding to support a summer internship through one of our 6 internship funds:
Student Affairs Internship Fund
$1,000–$5,000 to multiple recipients
Several students will receive $1,000 to $5,000 to defray the cost of pursuing an unpaid internship. In the summer of 2019, over 40 students were awarded funds through the Student Affairs Internship Fund
Established in 2020 by Michael Mallow ’88 and Audra Mallow, this internship fund has been established to support students participating in internships in research, government or public interest.
Established in 2021 by the Vogt Family, this fund supports students at Binghamton University who without funding, would not be able to participate in a summer internship opportunity.
This internship was established to support English majors within Harpur College of Arts & Sciences to help offset the costs associated with completing paid or unpaid summer internships.
Established in 2021, this fund was developed to support students that face the most barriers of participating in summer internships. This fund is only available for a limited pre-determined student list.
Ashleigh Beblavy, a Student Affairs Internship Fund recipient, at her internship with The Broome-Tioga Workforce.Annamarie Chironis was able to intern at the Italian Council of National Research in Rome, Italy thanks to support from the Student Affairs Internship Fund.Accounting student Vivian Guan received support from the Fleishman Career Success Initiative, which enabled her to serve as a tax intern at Grant Thornton.Lauren Kidd received funding from the Student Affairs internship Fund to complete her Administrative Internship with the Ronald McDonald House Charities.Aspiring attorney and Mallow Internship Endowment recipient Brooke Starkey at her internship site, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York.Efrain Arroyo, a doctoral anthropology student, completed a summer internship with support from the Student Affairs Internship Fund.
During the summer of 2022, the Fleishman Career Center distributed $204,700 in internship funding to enable 56 students to complete meaningful, high-impact internship experiences. To learn more about the recipients and the impact of their funding, read our internship funding news article.
The experience must be an extension of the classroom: a learning experience that provides for applying the knowledge gained in the classroom. It must not be simply to advance the operations of the employer or be the work that a regular employee would routinely perform.
The skills or knowledge learned must be transferable to other employment settings.
The experience has a defined beginning and end, and a job description with desired qualifications.
There are clearly defined learning objectives/goals related to the professional goals of the student’s academic coursework.
There is supervision by a professional with expertise and educational and/or professional background in the field of the experience.
There is routine feedback by the experienced supervisor.
There are resources, equipment, and facilities provided by the host employer that support learning objectives/goals.
Additional funding opportunities:
These funding opportunities are not intended to support undergraduate research and scholarly or creative work. For information on research resources, please visit the Undergraduate Research Center.
Graduate students can seek travel and research grants through the Graduate School. Check the Research and Travel Funding website
Professional development experiences (such as conferences, trainings, grad school application fees, professional clothing, and more) are potentially eligible for reimbursement through the Professional Development Fund.
Thank you! These funding opportunities are generously funded by friends and partners of Binghamton University and the Fleishman Career Center. We are extremely grateful for their ongoing support of Binghamton University students.
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