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International Internship deadlines vary by program. Please pay close attention to how the Summer Internship Funding Program defines international internships to ensure you are applying by the correct deadline. Decisions for funding will only be made for applications that include a completed Organization Verification Form. 

All materials are due by 11:59 p.m. ET. 

• Sunday, March 10, 2024 - International self-design internship funding 
• Monday, March 11, 2024 -  
• Tuesday, January 23 - IES through Career & Civic
• Sunday, February 18 - LTT 
• TBD - Sijal
• Sunday, April 21- Students currently studying abroad during spring semester
• Sunday, April 21 - International students interning in their home country
• Thursday, January 4 - Innovation Academy

Additional rounds could possibly open for juniors who have never received funding before if there is funding remaining after the initial deadlines.If funding is available to be dispersed in an additional round, data from previous years indicates that it is typically only enough to support 1-3 additional students. 

Questions? Contact Jennifer Prudencio at jprudencio@brynmawr.edu to schedule a 1:1 appointment or schedule an appointment in Handshake and select "internship funding" as the appointment type for additional question about funding deadlines. 

Domestic Internships deadlines vary by program. To be considered for summer funding, you must submit your  with your internship of interest. Late summer funding applications will not be accepted. Decisions for funding will only be made for applications that include a completed Organization Verification Form.

All materials are due by 11:59 p.m. ET. 

• Sunday, April 21 - Domestic self-design summer internship funding 
• Monday, April 22 -  

Complete the . The application must be completed in one sitting. You may not save your entries and return to them. In addition to basic information about you and your internship, the application form will ask for the following:

• Please provide contact information for one Tri-Co faculty or staff member to serve as your reference. The reference may be contacted during the application review period in April, but they do not need to submit a written letter. 
• Additional department and committee funding sources for which you would like to be considered
• Details about the length of the internship and host organization
• A budget that includes your costs associated with the internship  

The application form will ask you to upload the following documents:

• A one-page resume that outlines your education and experience.
• An internship proposal (up to 700 words). Please describe in detail:
  • a) the organization's description and mission;
  • b) your responsibilities and projects as an intern;
  • c) the supervision you will receive; 
  • d) what contributions do you hope to make to the organization as an intern?
• A personal statement (up to 700 words). Please describe in detail:
  • a) your preparation for the proposed internship;
  • b) what you hope to learn from the experience;
  • c) how the experience will enhance your academic, personal, and professional goals.

• Have your organization complete the  by the deadline.
• This form should be completed by your supervisor, the hiring manager/internship coordinator, or someone working at your host site.
• This form must be received by the deadline for your application to be considered.
• In cases where the organization does not have access to the internet, please contact Jennifer Prudencio at jprudencio@brynmawr.edu to make alternate arrangements.

Currently enrolled first-years, sophomores, and juniors are eligible to apply. Preference is given to juniors, particularly if you have never received College funding.

If you study abroad, you can apply as long as you maintain an active, registered status at Â鶹ÊÓƵ.

Important 

• If you receive summer funding, you must be enrolled at Bryn Mawr College or at an accredited Study Abroad program for the fall semester following your internship.  

• If you do not return to Bryn Mawr in the fall (such as in the case of permanent transfers or leaves of absence), you must return the internship funds to the College. 

• If you plan to graduate in December, you are eligible to apply.

• If you do not return to Bryn Mawr in the fall as a current, actively enrolled student, you are not eligible. This includes graduating seniors. 

Internships must meet the following criteria:

• We will fund remote, in-person, and hybrid (remote and in-person) internships.

• You are given priority if you secure the internship by the application deadline. The organization's information is needed for a fair review process.  

• Preference is given to internships hosted by organizations NOT affiliated with Bryn Mawr College, Haverford College, or Swarthmore College. 

• The internship is unpaid. While priority is given to unpaid internships, considerations have been made; for example, if you are being paid $1,500 or less, including stipend, housing, and/or transportation, you can apply for funding for the remaining $2,500). If you receive any funding through the internship, it must be stated in your application following the policies of the Honor Code. 

• Minimum of 240 hours of supervised work (8-10 weeks at 30 hours/week minimum) for full-time work. 

• The internship occurs sometime between the end of the spring semester and before classes begin in the fall. 

• The internship provides you with a meaningful and educational experience that can contribute to your academic, career, and personal interests. 

• The internship can be domestic or abroad if part of an approved international internship program. If you travel internationally, you must register in the Bryn Mawr Travel Registry. 

• Supervised by a professional in the organization who agrees to the supervisor guidelines. 

Summer Internship Funding may not be used to:

• Pay for tuition for academic courses. 

• Pay for fee-based internship programs unless the fee is meant to cover strictly travel and housing costs. In other words, we do not fund administrative costs of fee-based programs. An exception may be made when the best or only opportunity is available through a fee-based program, such as an international internship hosted through a program provider. 

• Support purely independent research projects. We will consider internship proposals with a research component directly related to the supervisor's or organization's research. 

• Support an internship if you have received funding from another department through Bryn Mawr or Haverford for the same internship experience. 

• Support an internship that is in addition to doing a full-time paid internship.  

• Support an internship that is in addition to doing another funded program offered by Â鶹ÊÓƵ or Haverford College.  

• Supplement a paid internship experience that offers $1,500 or more.   

Internships with a Research Component

• We do not fund independent research projects, but we will consider internship proposals with a research component linked to a supervisor's or organization's research project.
• A note about Fall semester research: You may sometimes want to incorporate what you've learned during the summer into your academic work once back on campus. To do so, there may be instances where you need prior approval from the College's Institutional Review Board.
• If this interests you, please discuss it with a faculty member in your major field this semester.

You can only receive internship funding once during your time at Â鶹ÊÓƵ.

Summer Funding is competitive, and priority is given to students who have never received funding. The goal of the funding program is to give as many Bryn Mawr students as possible access to funds to pursue their internship of choice. 

The application asks if you have received funding through another College program so that we can best achieve our goal of funding as many Bryn Mawr students as possible.

You should not receive or apply for internship funding if you are doing a full-time paid internship or have accepted funding for another Â鶹ÊÓƵ or Haverford College summer program. 

The following exceptions to this policy are considered: 

• Previous Alumnae/i Regional Scholars, Black Alumnae/i Fund recipients , and previous recipients of the Davis Projects for Peace grant may be considered for a second summer through our Summer Internship Funding program. 

• Previous participants in the College-sponsored internship programs may also be considered for a second summer through our Summer Internship Funding Program. College-sponsored internship programs include our Internship Partners, Summer of Service, and BiCo Ghana Lagim Tehi Tuma Action Research Fellowship.  

• You may receive funding for summer research one summer (e.g., a Hanna Holborn Gray grant, Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, Summer of Science Research) and a summer internship another summer. However, preference is given to those who have never received summer funding before. 

Questions? Contact Jennifer Prudencio at jprudencio@brynmawr.edu.

• NEW 2021:  The Black Alumnae/i Fund (supports students who share a cultural background or personally identify with the African Diaspora in their personal and professional growth, including members of the following Alliance of Multicultural Organizations (AMO) groups: Sisterhood*, BACaSO, Mujeres*, and Zami+
• NEW 2021: Edith May Broecker Internship Fund, funding undergraduate internships, with a preference for students with financial need working in technology or engineering.
• Alison B. Macdonald '95 Internship Fund - This Fund provides support for an internship for an undergraduate student, with a preference for an internship with a law firm or legal organization.
• Alumnae Regional Scholarship - Supports sophomores with a 3.3+ GPA who receive some form of need-based financial aid.
• Ariadne Solter Fund Supports an unpaid internship in a development project in the global South or in underdeveloped areas of the United States. Haverford College undergraduates are eligible.
• Barbara G. Kaplan '56 and Denise B. Kandel '52 Internship Fund - Designated to support internships in the areas of community and international development giving preference to internships in the arts or to students to explore non-traditional careers.
• Â鶹ÊÓƵ Internship Fund - A number of awards are made each year in support of unpaid internships. 
• Bonnie Brice Dorwart ’64 Public Health Internship Fund - Supports unpaid internships in the field of public health.
• Class of 1964 Summer Internship Award - Supports an unpaid internship.
• Cohen Data Science Fund - Supports students whose internships involve data science work; Data Science enables us to find meaning in the massive amounts of data available to us today.  
• Dean Karen Tidmarsh '71 International Internship Fund - Supports a student pursuing an international internship.
• Dean Karen Tidmarsh ‘71 Internship Fund - Awarded annually for an undergraduate student internship in the fields of community development or social change in a domestic or international venue.
• Emily Seydel International Internship Fund - Supports an unpaid internship in a country that is foreign to the student.
• Erika R. Behrend and Stephen Behrend Memorial Internship - Supports an unpaid internship at a non-profit organization.
• Fujimura-Fanselow Family Internship Fund - Supports an unpaid position in order to conduct research on social justice or human rights. Preference is given to international students or students of color.
• Isabella R. Falcocchio Memorial Internship Fund - Awarded annually to an undergraduate student in the fields of community development or social change in a domestic or international venue.
• Jean Sovatkin Picker Fund - Supports one to two unpaid summer internships in a project focused on issues such as American defense policy and peace or similar topics that are among the central concerns of the nation at the time of the award.
• Jentes Family Internship Fund - Supports an unpaid summer internship in the production, exhibition, or distribution of film or in the historical preservation of film and film culture.
• Joan Chang Wong ’56 Memorial Internship Fund - Supports an unpaid internship.
• Julia '84 and Steven Guggenheimer Internship Fund
• Loftus Lawler Family Internship Fund - Supports an unpaid internship in community development or social change in a domestic or international venue.
• Nadia Anne Mirel Memorial Internship Fund - Supports the research or travel of students undertaking imaginative projects in the following areas: children's educational television, children's educational film, video and photography, or children's education.
• Nancy N. Grape Summer Internship Award - Supports an unpaid internship in community development or social change in a domestic or international venue.
• Nancy J. Vickers Internship Fund - Supports an unpaid internship in community development or social change in an international or domestic setting.
• Reverend Mrs. Janet Wright Nelson and Dr. L.D. Nelson Summer Internship Fund - Awarded annually to an undergraduate with a preference for students interested in public health and a further preference for students focused on women's health.
• Rose C. Talmadge Summer Internship Fund - Supports an unpaid internship in community development or social change in a domestic or international venue.
• Ronnie Goldberg Summer Internship Fund - Supports an unpaid internship in the areas of women's economic empowerment or international development, education of women and girls; and corporate social responsibility including sustainable development and/or business and human rights.
• Simonson Internship Fund - Supports an unpaid internship concerned with public service or public policy, with preference for projects concerning gender equity or women's health.
• Springer-Rosenblum Summer Internship Fund - Supports an unpaid internship in community development or social change in a domestic or international venue.
• STEM Posse Funds - The Â鶹ÊÓƵ STEM Posse has access to specific funding for students conducting unpaid or low-paying summer internships and internships with a research component. This grant is available to any STEM Posse student.  
• Academic Department Internship Funds

The following summer awards are associated with specific academic departments. Students interested in being considered for these awards should select the award name in the Career & Civic Engagement Center Funding Application Form.

• Bolton Prize: Summer Funds for Growth and Structure of Cities - Established by the Bolton Foundation to award a student majoring in the Growth and Structure of Cities and pursuing an unpaid internship.
• Green Grants: Summer Funds for Environmental Studies - Supports research, internships or field experience in environmental studies. Preference given to Sophomores and Juniors. 
• Museum Studies Summer Internship Award - This award provides summer funding for students who wish to intern in museums, galleries or other arts organizations. These grants enable students to explore the field of Museum Studies and enhance their education with the practical experiences of a summer internship.
• Otto and Gertrude Pollak Grants in Sociology - Grants for Sociology Majors to support summer internships in non-profit organizations related to the student's field of study and possible career interests. The Pollak Fund supports student internships for sociology sophomore and junior majors only for 8-10 weeks each summer. These grants are supported by the estate of Otto and Gertrude Pollak—lawyers from Vienna, Austria—who became political refugees from Nazi-occupied Austria and emigrated to the United States. After they settled in the Philadelphia area, Â鶹ÊÓƵ had a significant impact in helping them to establish their professional careers. 

Note: All funding awards are taxable income.

We guide students in maximizing their internship experiences through a series of activities offered by the Beyond Â鶹ÊÓƵ Summer Internship Program. All College-funded students are required to complete this program.

• a virtual orientation of assignments to submit through Moodle before the start of your internship
• an international internships pre-departure orientation for students
• a learning contract with objectives agreed upon with the internship supervisor
• a mid-summer reflection 
• a blog post
• a final report and presentation slides
• participation in the culminating event during Fall Family Weekend called Â鶹ÊÓƵ and Beyond.

You will explore how the skills you develop in your Â鶹ÊÓƵ courses articulate with your off-campus experiences and prepare you for life after Â鶹ÊÓƵ.

To register for the course, please use this . 

You can enroll in a 0.5 credit/no-credit Personal Development course that involves all the components listed above, as well as selected readings and reflections. 

May 13 - course registration deadline

Questions? Contact Katie Krimmel at kkrimmel@brynmawr.edu.  

If you receive summer funding, you will participate in the culminating event called Â鶹ÊÓƵ and Beyond.

Held each fall, this event provides a forum for you, the funded student, to dialogue with the Â鶹ÊÓƵ community about your summer and to present what you've learned in a meaningful way. You will reflect on what you did, what you learned about yourself, and how your experiences helped you to refine and discover your interests. You will also share how you develop skills tied to our competencies:

• social responsibility
• communication
• conceptual thinking
• connection
• cultural competency
• implementation
• reflective practice

You will summarize your experience into four short slides that will be published in the annual Â鶹ÊÓƵ and Beyond book.

Awards are given up to $4,000, and this is taxable income. Summer funding is subject to applicable federal, state, and local income taxes and FICA. Taxes are withheld from payments generally at the rate of 15-20 percent. It could be more or less depending on the filing of one's taxes as well as one's international student status.  

Priority is given to students who have secured the internship at the time of application deadline of April 21. 

Applications that are complete will be given a full review. However, organizations may be delayed in submitting their information. If you secure an internship but the host organization is unable to complete the form by the deadline, please notify us before the April 21 deadline at internshipfunding@brynmawr.edu, so we help you can create a plan.

For the summer of 2024, we are returning to two deadlines. The international internships deadline of March 3 is if you are applying for funding with an internship outside of the U.S. and not in your home country. The domestic internships deadline of April 21 is if you are pursing an internship in the U.S. or in your home country.  

If you are considering applying for funding for an international internship, you are encouraged to make an appointment with Jennifer Prudencio. Email her at jprudencio@brynmawr.edu or make an appointment in Handshake.

Funding decisions are based on the internship designated in your application. If, due to an extenuating circumstance, you want to request to transfer your funding to a different internship, you must contact Jennifer Prudencio at jprudencio@brynmawr.edu. Your application will undergo another review to receive approval.

No. Eligible internships for funding must be full-time internships, or at least a minimum of eight weeks at 240 total hours. 

International students who receive internship funding for a secured internship in the U.S. are required to meet with Patti Lausch, Assistant Dean of International Students and Scholar Services, to confirm your eligibility for Curricular Practical Training (CPT). If Patti confirms you are eligible for CPT, you are required to enroll in the summer Personal Development course by  by May 2024.

Haverford students majoring at Bryn Mawr are eligible to apply for the following grants: Pollak Grant for Sociology Majors and Bolton Grant for Cities Majors. Haverford students must select these grant names in their funding application.

No, students who are on a leave of absence are not eligible to apply for summer funding for the summer of 2024.

You can certainly apply to multiple opportunities for funding, but know that you can only accept one funding opportunity. For example, if you apply to Summer of Service and apply for Self-Design funding, you are not able to combine those amounts to receive more funding. Once students are notified of the decision, there is a period of time to decide if you choose to accept the funding award.

There are many outstanding applications each year, so summer awards are competitive, but remember that many internships are funded each summer. If you do not receive funding this year, be sure to apply again next year.

• Funding preference goes to students based on the quality of the internship proposal and the personal statement. Well-written applications will reflect a student’s focus and understanding of how the internship fits the applicant's career plans, academics, and personal goals. Poorly written materials can be grounds for denying funding, even if the student has proposed a good internship.
• Preference goes to proposals that clearly articulate what tasks the internship entails and that have a very good chance of being realized (i.e. proposals should include details about the secured internship).
• Funding preference is based on student seniority and on whether the student has ever received College summer funding. For example, if two students have equally strong proposals and a choice is to be made, preference would go to the more senior student. Among senior students, preference would go to the student who had never before received any College summer funding.
• There is a significant amount of funding that is not specifically tied to specific awards.  Some funding awards set forth specific guidelines regarding the types of internships that are eligible to be awarded. These guidelines are considered in the funding process. For example, if there is only one student, a sophomore, who submitted an internship proposal in film, and there is a funding award specific to film, that sophomore would receive funding over a junior who has never received funding not doing an internship in film.  Ideally, the junior who has never received funding could still be funded through the funding that is not specifically tied to specific awards or another award, but if all other funding was distributed, this would be a scenario where a sophomore could receive funding over a junior. These situations are unlikely, but could occur.  
• Students with complete applications are given priority. 
• Financial need is not a criteria for selection.

Decisions for self-design funding are made by a committee of staff and faculty from Bryn Mawr. Members of this committee vary from year to year, but typically there are no less than six people and there can be up to 10. Typically there are people from Career & Civic Engagement, Alumnae Relations and Development, the Registrar's Office, and possibly members from academic departments depending on their availability. Committee members receive a power point and specific training on how to review applications and make decisions.

Decisions for College Internship Partners are typically made by the organizations. In rare cases, organizations may request that Bryn Mawr makes decisions. In the case that Bryn Mawr decides, a committee of at least three people is formed, one of whom is a member of the Career & Civic Engagement Center. 

Members of the Career & Civic Engagement staff who work on the Career Engagement team (i.e. career counselors), are not part of any selection processes.  

For self-design funding and any Bryn Mawr committees, each complete application is assigned randomly to two reviewers. Each reviewer uses specifically provided power point instructions to independently score each application from 1-4 based on predefined criteria tied directly to the application materials (resume, personal statement, internship proposal and application form). Each application receives two independent scores. The scores are used as a starting point for decision making and conversation, but in addition to the score, each applicants application is discussed by the full committee who comes to a decision together.  

Absolutely! Students are encouraged to utilize resources at Career Engagement to help prepare your application. You are invited to make an appointment with a career counselor or stop by drop-ins in the new Wellness Center.

Because deadlines are an important professional development skill and the funding process is competitive, we do not accept applications after the deadline. You must submit your application form by April 21, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. ET to be considered for funding. 

Students applying for the March 3 deadline are notified the week of March 31. Students applying for the April 21 deadline are notified the week of April 30.

Students working or studying at Bryn Mawr may request permission to live on campus in summer of 2024; undergraduates who work on campus may live off campus; all must abide by the Student Health Agreement. 

Resources to Guide Students' Summer Housing Search

If you are looking for summer housing for your internship, research, or summer study experience, consider asking your employer where previous interns or students have lived. Many colleges and universities also offer summer housing. Below is a list of possible resources as you plan to relocate to a new city for the summer.

• National
• Atlanta
• Boston
• Chicago
• Los Angeles
• New York
• Philadelphia
• Washington, D.C.
• Other
  • Houston, TX: Apartment Directions

Note: This is not an endorsement of these sites, but for information purposes only. Please consider your options carefully.