Menu
Search the Union College website
Career Center in Becker Hall

Internships

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

A recent survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) indicates that employers extended full-time job offers to nearly 70 percent of their interns. An internship will not only give you an edge over your competition when job searching, but it is a valuable way to try out a potential career field of interest. Many internships take place over the summer, although part-time internship opportunities with local organizations are a great way to gain experience during the academic year.

Union students have interned in the following fields:

  • Art & 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, Inc.
    • Steve Madden
    • Travelers Insurance
  • Communications, Marketing & Journalism
    • A&E Television Network
    • Albany Times Union
    • Fox Broadcasting
    • HubSpot
    • Life & Style magazine
    • MediaMath
    • NBC
    • Sugar, Inc.
    • Viacom
  • 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
    • Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
  • Environmental
    • Environment One
    • Cape Wildlife Center
    • FloDesign Wind Turbine Inc.
    • Marsh Botanical Gardens
    • Nature Conservancy
    • New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
  • Health Care & 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
  • Legal & Public Affairs
    • Albany for Obama Campaign
    • Commodity Futures Trading Commission
    • Council on Hemispheric Affairs
    • Essex County District Attorney’s Office Child Abuse Project
    • Israel Policy Forum
    • Legal Aid Society
    • Manhattan District Attorney's Office
    • 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 & 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 & Science
    • Comprehensive Research Center
    • Harvard University Health and Psychophysiology Lab
    • NJIT Neurological Science
    • Novartis Institute of Biomedical Research
    • Semprus Bioscience
    • Yale Bioethics Institute

Other Internship Resources

  • Glassdoor

    Glassdoor provides an inside look at salaries, reviews and interview questions posted by employees at over 280,000 organizations. Content includes actual interview questions and reviews for specific employers from previous interview candidates, specific salary, bonus, and commission details, and reviews of the company culture and working conditions. Click on this link for unlimited access without having to create an account or provide any content.

  • LinkedIn

    LinkedIn - the world’s largest professional network on the Internet. Not only is LinkedIn an effective platform for networking with professionals in your career field of interest, but it also allows you to search for internships and full-time job opportunities.

Schedule an Internship Search appointment with a Career Center Advisor through Handshake and check out the Career Center's Job and Internship Strategies Guide in Handshake's resource library.