Want to gain a competitive edge in your future career? Internships can help you develop valuable job skills, gain practical work experience, and explore potential career paths—all while learning in a real-world environment. While internship credit cannot be used to satisfy MSCI major requirements, many students in the Multidisciplinary Science program seek internships within their chosen field.
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The University of Oregon Career Center provides career and job search assistance, offers strategies for choosing a career, and helps connect students with local and global internship opportunities. Students participating in internships can earn up to 12 upper-division credits in a 10-week term.
Hands-on Learning Scholarships
Students in the College of Arts and Sciences can apply for funding to support them in pursuing experiential learning opportunities. These scholarships provide up to $5,000 in financial support to assist students in completing an unpaid internship, research opportunity, or service-learning experience of at least eight weeks duration.
International Internships
This program, administered by the UO Global Studies Institute (GSI), offers internship opportunities in a wide variety of industry sectors and locations around the world.
Internship opportunities are highly customizable, and we guarantee placement in your preferred sector and location. Students earn up to eight UO credits as well as life-changing work experience in a different culture.
Please email globalworks@uoregon.edu to discuss your options.
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) offers funded internships in laboratory research for both undergraduate and graduate students from around the world, including University of Oregon students. Interns at KAUST will have access to close faculty mentorship, cutting-edge laboratory equipment, and excellent amenities. Example intern duties might include monitoring, research, data collection, lab work, and data analysis.
This Clinical Fellowship, which focuses on providing AAMC-compliant physician shadowing in an international setting, will take place over four weeks in summer term. In partnership with Atlantis, Fellows are afforded the opportunity to experience global healthcare with a group of other pre-health students, shadowing doctors in a different specialty each week for at least 20 hours per week. Students can choose from three sites in Europe for their fellowship location.
Less than half of the global population is covered by necessary health services. Global Health is the area of study focused on prioritizing health and health equity across the globe. Global health challenges may include low rates of immunization, poor sanitation and waste management, unsafe drinking water and chronic, infectious, and vector-borne diseases. Interns will gain career-ready competencies in technical abilities, critical thinking, problem solving, teamwork, and global and intercultural fluency.