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Research internships that cover travel, accommodation, and sometimes a daily allowance. These are short-term placements at top research institutes, giving you hands-on lab experience and a foot in the door for future positions.
NAACP Law Fellows Program 2027 - Summer Stipend
The NAACP Law Fellows Program places law students in the Office of the General Counsel in Baltimore for a full-time summer fellowship focused on civil rights litigation, advocacy projects, and the NAACP Legal Advocacy Institute at the national convention. CareerOneStop and recent NAACP postings describe a $10,000 stipend paid biweekly through payroll, with applications due around late February or mid-March depending on the cycle. You must have completed at least one year of law school, show commitment to public interest and civil rights law, and submit a resume, cover letter, transcript, writing sample, and two recommendation letters to [email protected].
UNDP Internship Programme 2027 - New York HQ Stipend
The UNDP Internship Programme places students and recent graduates inside United Nations Development Programme teams for six weeks to six months, and the New York headquarters is one of its duty stations. Past headquarters calls have covered UN system affairs, corporate and institutional law, programmes and projects law, and policy and advocacy on climate and security risk. Unlike several other UN internships, this one pays: an in-person intern who is not funded by a university, government, foundation or scholarship receives a monthly stipend set for the duty station, calculated as 45 per cent of the lowest level of the local NPSA salary scale. UNDP pays nothing else. Travel, visas, passports, accommodation, living costs and medical insurance are all yours. Vacancies appear on the UNDP Job Page through the year at post level IN, with no annual application round.
International Monetary Fund Internship 2027 in DC
The International Monetary Fund Internship is the Fund Internship Program (FIP), a paid summer placement at IMF headquarters in Washington, DC for current master's and PhD students in economics, and for law students through the Legal Department route. About 50 students join each year from around the world. Internships run for 10 to 12 weeks between June and October, and the IMF pays a salary, round-trip restricted economy class air travel from your university to Washington, and limited medical insurance. Housing is not provided. The IMF publishes no closing date: postings go up on its career site in early December and applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.
Microsoft Global University Internship 2027
Microsoft runs its Global University Internship across every job family and solution area, and it is open to students currently enrolled in a bachelor's, master's, MBA or PhD program. Most placements run over the summer. There is no closing date to miss, because Microsoft states that recruiters keep accepting applications until all positions are filled. The US rules are specific and worth reading before you apply: you must be enrolled during the academic term immediately before the internship, go back to school for one full academic term afterwards, avoid taking classes while you intern, and be at least 16. Microsoft publishes a base pay range on each individual posting rather than one headline figure, and US interns get medical and vision insurance, paid sick time, paid federal holidays and software discounts.
Carnegie Endowment Internship 2027 - Paid DC Roles
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace runs paid internships across its Washington research programs and its support departments, open to all students and recent graduates. Every intern, part time or full time, is paid at least $20 an hour. Full-time interns receive a benefits package and part-time interns get limited benefits. Individual postings say whether the role is open to remote candidates or restricted to people who can work from the DC-metro area. There is no single application form and no annual cutoff. Roles appear on the Carnegie jobs board as programs need them, so the practical approach is to watch the board rather than wait for a date. US work authorisation is the hard gate for any US-based internship.
UN Women Internship Programme 2027 - Unpaid, Year-Round
The UN Women Internship Programme places students and recent graduates inside UN Women teams for two to six months, at the New York headquarters on East 42nd Street and at offices around the world. Work covers strategic partnerships, communications, advocacy, policy, evaluation, human resources, programme planning, research and data, finance and ICT. The programme is unpaid. UN Women states that interns are not financially remunerated, and that a stipend towards meals and local transport is possible only for interns who are not funded by a university, government, foundation or scholarship programme. Travel, insurance and accommodation are yours to pay for. There is no annual application round: placements are advertised on the UN Women Careers site whenever a unit has a meaningful assignment, so the filter to watch is the Internships vacancy category.
Bank of America Internship 2027 - Summer Analyst
The Bank of America Internship is a 10-week paid Summer Analyst Program running across the bank's US lines of business, from Global Technology and Corporate Audit through to Finance Management, Global Risk and Commodities. It is aimed squarely at students in their penultimate year of university, with graduation dates between November 2027 and August 2028, and the bank describes the summer class as its primary source of hiring into full-time campus programs. Bank of America publishes no hourly rate or salary figure on any of its US student postings. Most 2027 roles close on 30 September 2026, Commodities closes on 1 October 2026, and the Global Technology and Quantitative Data Analytics roles run to 7 November 2026. Applications are read on a rolling basis and most postings state that the bank cannot consider candidates who need visa sponsorship.
FBI Honors Internship 2028 - Paid Summer Program
The FBI Honors Internship Program (HIP) is a paid, full-time internship that runs from June to August at FBI Headquarters, field offices across the United States and Puerto Rico, and the satellite campuses in Quantico, Huntsville and Pocatello. Interns are paid on the federal General Schedule, GS-5 for those who hold a bachelor's degree and are enrolled full-time in a graduate program, GS-4 for every other full-time student. Applicants must be US citizens, attend a US-accredited college or university full-time, hold and keep a 3.0 cumulative GPA, and pass the full FBI background investigation for a Top Secret clearance. The FBI states that 60 percent of interns receive a full-time job offer after graduation. The 2027 cycle closed on 5 March 2026 and the 2028 cycle dates have not been announced.
Netflix Internship Program 2027 - Paid 12-Week Roles
Netflix runs a paid summer internship program in the United States, India, Poland and Japan, built around a 12-week placement that embeds you in a team rather than parking you on a side project. Most openings sit in Engineering and Data and Insights, with others across Content, Finance and Strategy, Marketing and Program Management. Netflix states the pay range on its own postings: the market range for internships is typically $40 to $85 an hour on the current Winter 2027 listings, quoted as total compensation. Eligibility is short. You must be enrolled at a university studying for a bachelor's, master's or doctoral degree, and the program is meant for students going back to school for at least a semester afterwards. There is no closing date. Roles post from mid-August to early September and the intern recruiting season runs to the end of March, with applications reviewed as they arrive.
CSIS Internships 2027 - Paid Policy Research in DC
The Center for Strategic and International Studies runs paid internships in Washington, DC across its research programs, in the fall, spring and summer terms, for undergraduates, graduate students and recent graduates. Interns are paid by the hour on a published scale of $18.40 for current undergraduates, $19.40 for hires holding a bachelor's degree and $20.40 for hires holding a master's, and they join the programming of the Abshire-Inamori Leadership Academy alongside roughly 200 other interns a year. There is no single application and no single cutoff. Each program posts its own intern role on the CSIS careers portal, and the pattern CSIS publishes is February postings for the summer term, July for the fall term and October for the spring term. Work authorisation in the United States is the hard gate, since CSIS does not sponsor visas for interns, and housing is not provided.
NASA JPL Year-Round Internship 2027 - Paid STEM
The NASA JPL Year-Round Internship Program pays undergraduate and graduate STEM students to work on Lab at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory during the academic year and over the summer, with part-time and full-time terms offered all year. There is no single closing date. JPL accepts applications continuously, keeps each one active in its system for eight months, and lets mentors search that pool when they have a project to staff. Participants get a weekly monetary award, and full-time in-person interns whose university sits more than 50 miles from JPL also get a housing and travel allowance. The programme is open to U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents enrolled at accredited U.S. universities, with a 3.0 GPA minimum and 3.5 preferred, and your first term has to run 10 weeks or more.
USDA Internship Program 2027 - Unpaid, Washington DC
The USDA Internship Program places emerging leaders inside the U.S. Department of Agriculture for a semester of public service work in Washington DC, and the Spring 2027 cohort runs from 25 January to 30 April 2027 with applications due by 13 November 2026. Read one line before you plan around it: USDA states plainly that these internships are unpaid, with no housing and no relocation assistance. Eligibility is unusually open in one direction and completely closed in another. You do not need to be enrolled in a degree or hold one, but you must be a U.S. citizen and at least 18 years old at the time of application, so international students cannot apply. The placement is in person at the Whitten Building, there is no remote option, and selected applicants go through security screening before they start.