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One of the distinguishing characteristics of Union's liberal arts education is our emphasis on applying ideas through practical experience. Our ideal location – near the state capital of Albany, in the heart of the Northeast's "Tech Valley," a three-hour drive to New York City and Boston – enables us to connect our students with valuable internships in all fields.

Union students at various internships

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Internships at companies and organizations worldwide

One of the distinguishing characteristics of Union's liberal arts education is our emphasis on applying ideas through practical experience. Our ideal location – near the state capital of Albany, in the heart of the Northeast's "Tech Valley," a three-hour drive to New York City and Boston – enables us to connect our students with valuable internships in all fields.

Union students at various internships

500+

Internships at companies and organizations worldwide

Arts and entertainment

  • American Museum of Natural History
  • Black Entertainment Television
  • Boston Museum of Science
  • Brooklyn Museum
  • The Cloisters
  • Colbert Report, Comedy Central
  • The Daily Show
  • Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
  • Greater Philadelphia Film Office
  • MTV Networks
  • National Museum of Dance
  • New York State Museum
  • Proctors Theater
  • Saratoga Shakespeare Company
  • Warner Music Group
  • Yale Peabody Museum

Business and finance

  • Ameriprise Financial
  • Ann Taylor
  • Harvard Business School
  • John Hancock Mutual Funds
  • Kern, Suslow Securities Inc.
  • Key Bank
  • Merrill Lynch
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Northwestern Mutual Financial Networks
  • Reebok International
  • Russell & Associates, LLC
  • Stanley Black & Decker
  • Steve Madden
  • Travelers Insurance

Communications, marketing and journalism

  • A&E Television Network
  • Albany Times Union
  • Fox Broadcasting
  • HubSpot
  • Life & Style magazine
  • MediaMath
  • NBC
  • Sugar, Inc.
  • Viacom
Claire Lockwood '20 interened at the Exploratorium in San Francisco
Photos shows Union students at a career fair at the College

Education

  • Breakthrough Collaborative
  • Brookline Teen Center Initiative
  • District of Columbia Public Schools
  • Los Angeles School on Wheels
  • NYU

Engineering

  • Environment One
  • General Electric
  • General Dynamics
  • Lenox Tools
  • MGE Engineering
  • NASA
  • Paurne and Kwalburn Consulting Engineers
  • PVA

Environmental

  • Environment One
  • Cape Wildlife Center
  • FloDesign Wind Turbine Inc.
  • Marsh Botanical Gardens
  • Nature Conservancy
  • New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

Health care and medical

  • Albany Medical School
  • American Cancer Society
  • Community Care Physicians
  • St. Luke’s Hospital Child and Family Institute
  • Harvard Medical School
  • Howard Medical Center
  • Joan Nicole Prince Home
  • Johns Hopkins Hospital and School of Medicine
  • Multiple Sclerosis Society
  • Penn Medicine
  • University of Oklahoma Health Science
  • Stony Brook University Medical Hospital

International

  • American Center, Moscow
  • Armenian Film Festival
  • Beijing CCTV
  • Depccon, Hanoi, Vietnam
  • Hong Kong Goldman Sachs
  • IBM Research Laboratories (China, India, Switzerland)
  • Sierra Leone Health Care
Union students working at their various internships
Union students at the College's annual career fair

Legal and public affairs

  • Albany for Obama Campaign
  • Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)
  • Council on Hemispheric Affairs
  • Essex County District Attorney’s Office Child Abuse Project
  • Israel Policy Forum
  • Legal Aid Society
  • Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition
  • New Yorkers for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
  • New York State Department of Criminal Justice
  • N.H. State House, Governor’s Citizen Services Office
  • U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
  • U.S. Senate, Office of John Kerry
  • U.S. Senate, Office of Kirsten Gillibrand
  • Suffolk County, N.Y., Family Court System

Non-profits and service

  • Brookline Teen Center Initiative
  • Capital Region Workforce Development Center
  • The Clinton Foundation
  • Family and Children Service of the Capital Region
  • Good Sports Inc.
  • Roots and Wisdom
  • Voss Foundation

Publishing

  • Condé Nast
  • Cosmopolitan magazine
  • Penguin Group
  • Harvard Business Publishing (HBP)
  • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Kaplan Publishing
  • Shore magazine

Research and science

  • Comprehensive Research Center
  • Harvard University Health and Psychophysiology Lab
  • NJIT Neurological Science
  • Novartis Institute of Biomedical Research
  • Semprus Bioscience
  • Yale Bioethics Institute

San Francisco Internship on Innovation and Creativity

ANTHROPOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY MAJOR APRYL TOVAR ‘21 INTERNED AT GLIDE, A NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE BASED IN SAN FRANCISCO.

ANTHROPOLOGY AND PSYCHOLOGY MAJOR APRYL TOVAR '21 INTERNED AT GLIDE, A NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED CENTER FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE BASED IN SAN FRANCISCO.

Union students get a firsthand look at the culture of Silicon Valley while working for start-ups and other companies during this winter term. The program combines an internship with a course in culture and entrepreneurship, which includes readings, field notes, and meetings with key employers and alumni in the area. About half of the students work in fields related to the arts, humanities and social sciences. Most recently, participants have interned at nonprofits dedicated to supporting women in developing countries, artists with developmental disabilities and at-risk youth.

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