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Check out the Internship Company Examples below but know that these are just examples of common employers and not the only possibilities. Students are matched by our Global Partner with an employer based on their interests/experiences and the employer’s hiring needs.
Build Your Own Internship: Location of Your Choice
Not seeing an internship for you below? If you have a very specific internship placement in mind or are looking through our program list and not seeing your location of choice, you still have options! You can “Build Your Own Internship,” where you research and secure your own internship while working with the GEO office to receive relevant academic credit. Students are responsible for finding this internship, housing, and travel arrangements independently, which is what differs from the existing internship placement programs that GEO offers. All students will be charged in-state tuition for this program and receive a guaranteed $250-$1000 scholarship.
Build Your Own Internship
Examples of Internship Placements
Atenas, Costa Rica with World Endeavors
Veterinary Sciences with Small Companion Animal Clinic Internship:
Welcome to the friendliest veterinary clinic in Costa Rica, where staff attend to various domesticated animals, and also perform surgeries. Shadow the veterinarians in their daily tasks, assist with vaccinations and surgeries, and learn animal handling skills and procedures.
Dublin, Ireland with World Endeavors
Biomedical Engineering Internship:
Biomedical engineering with an academic health science center linked with the Irish Rare Kidney Disease and Vasculitis registry and biobank, providing assistance with day-to-day running of the RKD Biobank, including processing blood samples for long term storage and harvesting white blood cells from blood samples, and ongoing research projects.
Florence, Italy with World Endeavors
Department of Biology Internship:
Interns assist with research projects on a variety of topics, for instance the abundance and distribution, population dynamics, and diet analysis of Savi voles. This placement is at a local university.
Hua Hin, Thailand with Travelbud
Paid TESOL/TEFL Teaching Internship:
Students will complete a 120-hour TESOL/TEFL course. Teaching placements (including grade levels) are made based on the intern's experience working with youth, school needs, and preference. Interns learn how to teach and then are supported throughout their teaching period. Students with a strong background in the Sciences or Technology could potentially teach a class in their STEM subject along with their English classes.
Incheon, South Korea with Travelbud
English Teaching Internship:
Students will complete a 120-hour TESOL/TEFL course and teach English in local schools. Teaching placements (including grade levels) are made based on the intern's experience working with youth, school needs, and preference. Interns learn how to teach and then are supported throughout their teaching period. Students with a strong background in the Sciences or Technology could potentially teach a class in their STEM subject along with their English classes.
Nagoya, Japan with Travelbud
English Teaching Internship:
Students will complete a 120-hour TESOL/TEFL course and teach English in local schools. Teaching placements (including grade levels) are made based on the intern's experience working with youth, school needs, and preference. Interns learn how to teach and then are supported throughout their teaching period. Students with a strong background in the Sciences or Technology could potentially teach a class in their STEM subject along with their English classes.
Osaka, Japan with CRCC Asia
GreenTech Internship:
Support the efforts of a GreenTech manufacturer that specializes in upcycling food waste into plant-based leather.
Quito, Ecuador with USFQ
Chemistry or Biology Internship in a Laboratory:
Interns will assist Citric acid production through bioprocesses, using Aspergillus Niger strains (biochemical, morphological and molecular) characterization. Students complete a preliminary evaluation of citric acid production from different strains. They focus on optimization of fermentation conditions to maximize production, as well as product isolation and purification. This is best for students within chemistry, chemical engineering, and biotechnology related fields with statistical analysis skills.
Singapore with CIEE
Biochemistry Start-Up Internship:
Intern at a biochemistry startup focused on technical support including product development, testing, analysis, quality control, and prototyping.
Biological Research and Analysis Internship:
Work at a company on biology research, analysis, report writing, and newsletter content.
Sydney, Australia with World Endeavors
Veterinary Sciences Internship:
In Australia, interns are typically placed with a veterinary clinic or hospital for companion animals. Some tasks have included:
o Preparing and giving injections
o Learning about prescription diets
o Learning about flea treatments
o Monitoring patients under anesthetics
o Observing dentistry procedures
Health Research Internship:
Past interns have had placements related to clinical and laboratory research, investigating aspects of the eye such as how eyes develop short or long sightedness, infections of the eye, contact lenses, and retinal diseases such as cataract and macular degeneration. This organization provides training in organizing people to test new ocular devices such as contact lenses or therapies of ocular diseases and conditions, in many aspects of laboratory biological testing including microbiology, biochemistry, immunology and histology.