Internships provide students with opportunities to apply their useful liberal-arts educations beyond campus. Dickinson interns tackle real-world issues, make connections, navigate professional environments and develop experience that they can integrate and transfer into new contexts.

Internships and research provide opportunities for students to enhance their thinking on leadership, personal values, professional ethics, workplace culture and more. To enrich this experiential learning, our Internship Notation Program and grant program provide intentional pathways for reflection so students can evaluate their progress and articulate their goals. 

Whether you plan to pursue employment, public service or graduate/professional school immediately after Dickinson, our vast alumni network and Advising, Internships & Career Center resources offer a wide array of opportunities for you to prepare for and secure internships.

Contact Info

Amity FoxDean and Director of Internships & Fellowships

Phone

717-245-1376

Fax

717-245-1618

Location

Biddle House Mailing Address

Dickinson Edge - Positioned on the edge of what the world needs

96% of Dickinsonians are employed, in grad school, undertaking meaningful volunteer work or engaged in a fellowship within one year of graduation.



35+ countries

35+ countries

Graduates from the class of 2018-20 interned in 35+ countries outside of the United States.

REAL-LIFE EXPERIENCE

REAL-LIFE EXPERIENCE

93% of students complete an internship, research, externship, service learning or field experience course.


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"Internships are a great way to challenge or confirm your interest in a field. Even if you don’t end up loving exactly what you do as an intern, you may find something through the experience that interests you even more. You also build connections with a lot of people who can give you very good advice."

—Kara Schwartz ’19, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia


And now there are externships, too!

Launched in 2016, the Dickinson externship program enables students to shadow alumni, parents or friends of the college in their workplace for between two and 10 days over winter break.