
Explore a list of service and social impact internship opportunities funded by Princeton.
There are two types of internship opportunities listed on this page.
Grants: These programs provide an opportunity for funding for an internship you secure on your own that meets the program criteria. These options provide you the flexibility to identify your own summer experience.
Internships: These programs provide specific funded internship opportunities with a predefined employer, job description and location.
Additionally, rising sophomores can consider the Service Focus program to help them connect their academic study to experiential learning.
These lists may not be exhaustive. Academic departments and other campus units may have additional funding and opportunities available for students. Please check with each department for current information.
Grants
For: First years, Sophomores, Juniors
Length: 8-10 weeks; first years are encouraged to participate in cohort experience through Service Focus during their sophomore year
Applications open: December 9, 2024
Application deadline: Open on a rolling basis until filled
Contact: Matt Lynn
The Bogle Fellowship is a funded opportunity designed to support student participation in service or civic engagement pursuits. Bogle Fellows are first-years, sophomores, and juniors who design their own summer internship or project in any area of academic/career interest in collaboration with a host partner. Internships must be a minimum of eight weeks and take place in the United States.
Up to 20 students will be granted awards of $600/week each. Bogle Fellows are also eligible to receive up to an additional $1,500 to fund independent civic engagement projects during the summer. All Fellows receive additional advisement and opportunities for professional development and community-building throughout the summer. First-year students who become Bogle Fellows are eligible to be part of Service Focus.
For: First years, Sophomores, Juniors
Length: 8+ weeks
Applications open: December 9, 2024
Application deadline: January 8, 2025
Contact: Matt Lynn
The Nancy Weiss Malkiel Fellowship supports first-generation and low-income college students and other students at Princeton University who are interested in working alongside community partners to expand educational access.
For: First years, Sophomores, Juniors
Length: 8-10 weeks
Applications open: December 9, 2024
Application deadline: January 8, 2025
Contact: Matt Lynn
An opportunity for Princeton undergraduates to design their own grassroots peace project that they themselves will implement in the summer. After a competitive on campus process selected projects will then be forwarded to the national office for review. Selected projects will be $10,000 each for implementation (Students may apply individually or in a group). Note: This is a national program. Princeton will submit candidates and alternate to the Davis committee for review.
Department: Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA)
For: Rising Sophomores and Juniors
Application deadline: May 23, 2025
Summer grants for sophomores who have declared SPIA and current SPIA juniors for internships in governmental or nonprofit organizations relating to public policy or international affairs.
Department: Office of International Programs
For: First years, Sophomores, Juniors
Application deadline: March 3, 2025
Fellows design their own projects or internships with a host organization, in any academic or professional area, and in a country outside of the U.S. These projects provide students with opportunities for intellectual and personal growth through a combination of work or research and immersion in a foreign culture.
Department: Lewis Center for the Arts
For: First years, Sophomores, Juniors
Applications open: February 5, 2024
Application deadline: March 1, 2024 at 5 p.m. ET
Funding for students spending the summer pursuing a project in the creative and performing arts. Award winners and amounts are determined by a committee of Lewis Center faculty members.
Department: Center for Career Development
For: First years, Sophomores, Juniors
Applications open: February 17, 2025
Application deadlines
- Priority deadline: April 15, 2025
- Final deadline: May 7, 2025 (or until funding for this cycle is allocated)
Funding to support current first years, sophomores and juniors to spend their summer participating in unpaid opportunities with nonprofits dedicated to social impact, civic engagement and/or public policy work.
Department: Princeton School of International and Public Affairs (SPIA)
For: First years, Sophomores, Juniors
Applications open: October 23, 2024 at 9 am .
Application deadline: January 10, 2025 at 4 p.m.
Contact: Minda Alena
The Arthur J. Liman Public Interest Program honors a lawyer who personified the ideal of commitment to the public interest. Throughout his long and distinguished career, he demonstrated how dedicated lawyers in both public and private life can serve the needs of people and causes that might otherwise go unrepresented.
Internships
Department: Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment (ACEE)
For: First years, Sophomores, Juniors
Applications open: November 25, 2024
Application deadline: January 13, 2025
Summer internships related to finding solutions to secure our energy and environmental future, and funding for 1) energy-related research projects performed under the direction of faculty, or 2) work at nonprofit organizations outside Princeton.
Department: Program for Community-Engaged Scholarships (ProCES)
For: First years, Sophomores, Juniors
Application deadline: February 7, 2025 (first round)
Contact: Tania Boster
Derian interns support Princeton faculty pursuing scholarly projects, including research and teaching, in collaboration with community partners. The program facilitates the growth of Princeton undergraduate students as community-engaged scholars.
For: First years, Sophomores, Juniors
Application deadline: January/February 2025
Contact: Julia Wiacek
The Faith-Based Internship Program reflects the Office of Religious Life’s understanding that the religious, moral, professional and academic lives of students are intricately intertwined. Each student is placed in an organization that approaches religion differently: students can work for a secular agency that partners with religious groups and learn about religion, or students can work with a religious non-profit that is faith driven which provides an opportunity to deepen one’s faith or learn about another.
The Faith-Based Internship Program provides a wide range of opportunities in Southeast Asia, India, and various domestic locations including New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Virginia, Georgia, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, Michigan, Ohio and Kentucky.
Applications will be due late January/early February 2025. Exact dates will be announced shortly.
Department: German Department
For: First years, Sophomores, Juniors. Postgraduate opportunities for Seniors and Graduate Students are also available.
Application deadline: Please inquire
Internships with leading German companies and institutions in fields such as business and finance, arts and culture, government, policy, medicine, law, STEM and data science. Student-initiated opportunities are also supported. Students from all fields of study are encouraged to apply. German proficiency is recommended but not required.
Department: High Meadows Environmental Institute (HMEI)
For: First years, Sophomores, Juniors
Applications open: November 25, 2024
Application deadline: Thursday, January 9, 2025 , 11:59 p.m.
Mentored assignments with Princeton faculty and other qualified hosts. Focus is on global environmental issues including climate science, energy alternatives, water, health, biodiversity, conservation, ocean biogeochemistry and sustainability. Many involve field research, including international destinations.
For: First years, Sophomores, Juniors
Length: 8 weeks
Applications open: October 4, 2024
Application deadlines:
- Application I: December 9, 2024 at 3 p.m.
Contact: IIP team
Generously-funded, summer internships in various industries and occupations in over 50 countries. Internships are funded by the University and will be no more than eight weeks. IIP offers students the opportunity to fulfill academic and pre-professional goals while living and working abroad. Interns have held positions in government, media, education, public health and nongovernmental organizations, as well as financial and research institutions. Remote opportunities are also available.
Department: Center for Health and Wellbeing
For: First years, Sophomores, Juniors, Graduate students
Application deadlines: December 2, 2024 (first round)
Fully-funded summer internships in the U.S. and abroad that explore multidisciplinary aspects of global health for students in the social sciences, natural sciences, humanities and engineering, both pre-med and not.
For: First years, Sophomores, Juniors
Length: 8-10 weeks
Applications open: December 9, 2024
Application deadline: January 8, 2025
Contact: Rose Holton
Paid opportunities to explore careers in public service and the non-profit sector with the unique benefit of being paired with an Alumni Mentor. The internships encompass a wide range of endeavors in national and some international organizations, working in legal services, public policy, the environment, health and social services, social impact, community development, education and the arts.
Department: Pace Center for Civic Engagement
For: First years, Sophomores, Juniors
Applications open: December 9, 2024
Application deadline: January 8, 2025
The Princeton RISE (Recognizing Inequities and Standing for Equality) Fellowship Program helps connect Princeton undergraduates with meaningful internships focused on combating systemic racism across all sectors of society.
Princeton RISE is intended to foster students' enduring and sustained commitment to civic engagement and was established in 2020 in response to the Black, indigenous, LatinX, and Asian lives lost to the pandemic, police violence and citizen vigilantism. RISE fellows engage with racial equity projects spanning a wide range of topics, including health, advocacy, reproductive rights, criminal justice, immigration, LGBTQIA+ justice, food security, housing security, environmental justice, religious and ethnic minority rights, voting rights, public policy, disability justice and the arts.
For: First-years, Sophomores, Juniors, Graduate students
Length: 10 weeks
Application deadline: November 30, 2024 at 11:59 p.m.
Contact: Mark Simeon
For students interested in entrepreneurship and working at a startup company in a global context. Opportunities with startup companies in Bengaluru: 10-weeks June-August; stipend; weekly entrepreneurship talks; housing provided for all locations (if in-person permitted by University), international flight stipend; and cultural excursions.
Department: The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA)
For: Sophomores, Juniors
Application deadline: October 22, 2024
SINSI offers a summer internship program with the federal government to provide students with direct experience in public service, either domestically or abroad. Applicants must be a U.S. citizen, have identified an area of US government work that is of particular interest and be able to successfully complete a background investigation and meet security and other requirements for work in the federal government.
Department: Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students (ODUS)
For: First years, Sophomores, Juniors, Graduate students
Application deadline: March 17, 2024
Vote100 is an intentional campus campaign aspiring for 100% of the undergraduate student body to engage civically in elections and democratic processes locally, nationally and internationally through various forms and social media campaigns.
Service Focus
Department: Pace Center for Civic Engagement
For: Sophomores (apply while in the first-year by applying to a Summer Service Internship)
Application deadline: Rolling