The Derby Entrepreneurship Center’s Entrepreneurial Internship Job Program connects Tufts students with innovative and entrepreneurial internships within startups, small businesses, nonprofits, or innovative initiatives within an existing organization.
These internships provide experiential learning opportunities where students apply skills like market research, product design and management, financial analysis, operations and more in a business context. This real-world experience complements their academic education with practical skills that help them with their career path planning process.
Employers benefit by building an early career talent pipeline with outstanding interdisciplinary students from diverse backgrounds.
Fall And Spring: Entrepreneurial Internship For Credit
For Fall and Spring, students may apply for an entrepreneurial internship under the supervision of a faculty member for 3 graded academic credits. The internship must be unpaid — and it must include at least 120 hours of work per semester. Students can take this course up to two times during their tenure at Tufts.
Summer: Entrepreneurial Internship Grant
For eligible summer internships, students must have a formal job description and offer letter in order to apply for a $4,500 Entrepreneurial Internship Grant through the Career Office’s summer internship grant program. The internship must be at least 10 weeks long and 300 hours in duration.
Examples of student skills and job characteristics
Marketing and Creative
Operations and Customer Experience
Finance
Technical Roles
Student & Employer Testimonials
The Student Perspective
“Things were very much hands on and self-driven. I overall gained a better understanding of how testing infrastructure is made and I got better at problem solving. I learned I was much more capable than I thought I was.”
– Matt, a CS major
The Employer Perspective
“I was blown away by how well our interns worked independently. They were eager to get stuff done, and they absolutely helped us to perform better as a company while they were here.”
– Sebastian Coates, Cofounder & CEO of Tellescope