Milano strongly encourages adding internship experiences to your classroom learning. Internship experience is especially important if you have limited experience or you are making a career change. Here are a few reasons to pursue an internship:
- Learn more about your field and apply knowledge acquired in the classroom;
- Gain valuable work experience and add to your skills and accomplishments;
- Access tutelage from a practitioner in your field of study;
- Get a foot in the door and add to your network and references;
- Decide if you are on the right path professionally.
Registering Your Internship
To register your zero-credit or 3-credit internship, you will need to submit an experience learning agreement (ELA). For additional information please reach out to [email protected].
Deliverables
Make sure that your internship has documentable deliverables, so you emerge from the internship with the ability to speak about your professional development in terms of measurable accomplishments. Whether these key deliverables and concrete outcomes are directed by the internship organization or developed through collaboration, they will provide talking points for interviews with potential employers and build out content for your résumé.
Examples of deliverables might include researching the viability of a new program, campaign, or initiative and presenting findings; performing, analyzing and presenting a study or survey; proposing solutions for a problem no one has had time to address.
Well-designed projects develop core competencies applicable across a variety of professional opportunities. Always keep track of specific capacities and accomplishments that internship projects foster and add them to your résumé.
Finding Internships
Career Services can work with students to find an appropriate internship. Employers who’ve sponsored previous internships for Milano students, alumni, current students, and faculty often bring opportunities to students’ attention through the Milano Newsflash, Google groups managed by the programs, and LinkedIn.
Graduate Career Services
72 Fifth Avenue, 5th floor
New York, NY 10011
[email protected]
Phone: 212.229.5400 x1518
Services offered include an online job board, job and internship search assistance, interview and portfolio workshops, networking opportunities, career fairs, internship support, resources, and more.
Recent Internship Placements
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Capital Roots Food System Assessment
Citi Foundation
City Harvest
Clinton Global Initiative
Echoing Green
Education Pioneers
Eileen Fisher (organizational development)
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) Climate Corps Fellows
Levi Strauss (organizational development)
Lower Manhattan Development Corporation
MTA Metropolitan Transportation Authority
Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance
Natural Resources Defense Council (NDRC) Environmental Justice Project
NYC Board of Education
New York City Council
New York City Economic Development Corporation
New York League of Conservation Voters
NYC Mayor’s Office of Sustainability
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey
Regional Plan Association
ThinkZero
US Department of Education
US Green Building Council | Urban Green Council
U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
Go to newschool.edu/career-services/internships for more information.