Baylor University Internships: A Comprehensive Guide for Students

Internships are invaluable for a student's academic and professional development, offering real-world experience in desired fields, opportunities to build professional networks, and mentorship to navigate the transition from academia to the professional world. Baylor University provides numerous resources to help students discover, apply for, and secure internships that promote personal growth and equip them for their futures. This guide provides a comprehensive overview of internship opportunities and resources available to Baylor students.

The Value of Internships

Internships offer a multitude of benefits for students, including:

Real-world experience: Internships provide students with practical experience working in the environments they aspire to pursue after graduation.
Professional Networking: They afford students opportunities to develop networks of professionals who are a few years out ahead in their field.
Mentorship: Internships connect students to mentors who can help guide them through the sometimes-difficult transitions between the academic and professional worlds.
Making a Difference: They give students a real opportunity, here and now, to make a difference in the world.
Increasing Knowledge Base: Internships help in increasing the student's knowledge base.
Enhancing Career Perceptions: They enhance the perceptions of the career track.
Understanding Organizational Operations: Students learn more about how an organization in that profession operates.
Stimulating Inquiry: Internships stimulate inquiry.
Practicing Soft Skills: Engaging with interprofessional individuals helps to practice soft skills.
Professional Communication: Internships help students in communicating and documenting with professionalism.
Contributing to Professional Future: Providing a practical experience that can contribute to the student's professional future.

Baylor University Resources for Internships

The Office of Engaged Learning works with students in a variety of ways to discover, apply for, and secure the kinds of internships that promote personal growth and equip them for their futures. In some cases, we work with donors and other partners to have funding in place for students to pursue an internship in areas that are often underfunded-such as research and public service-placing dozens of students, for example, in research labs at the National School of Tropical Medicine, in legal aid firms, health clinics, community development agencies, or state health departments working through the Shepherd Higher Education Consortium on Poverty.

These opportunities are always changing, and we in the Office are always discovering new ones. Alternatively, if you don't know what you'd like to do, begin by exploring some of the options below to prod your thinking, and then come see us.

Key Departments and Offices

Office of Engaged Learning: This office assists students in discovering, applying for, and securing internships. They also work with donors to provide funding for internships in underfunded areas like research and public service.
Baylor University Career Center: The Career Center helps students strategize their job and internship search by utilizing their network and meeting with people about jobs they might find online. The best resource in your job or internship search is your Career Success Professional (CSP). Make an appointment with your CSP for help with search strategy.
Department of Health, Human Performance, and Recreation (HHPR): Students are enrolled in Canvas: HHPR Internship Preparation by the Department of Health, Human Performance, and Recreation once they obtain 55 semester hours, so that they are able to complete a self-paced preparation journey through nine steps prior to searching for an internship experience.

Internship Databases and Search Engines

Baylor provides access to several online databases and resources to help students find internship opportunities:

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Handshake: The Baylor Office of Career and Professional Development's online database that houses job postings, an employer database, online interview scheduling, and more. We built a tool to make searching for jobs and internships listed in Handshake easier. You can use the tool to filter listings by multiple categories, including school year or major qualification. You can also see how many people have already applied and when the posting will expire for every listing, all at a glance.
DC Internships: Baylor in Washington has curated an internship database that connects students with possible internships for the summer, fall, and spring.
Idealist: Idealist is all about connecting idealists - people who want to do good - with opportunities for action and collaboration. With more than 120,000 organizations and 1.4 million monthly visitors to our English, and Spanish (idealistas.org) sites, Idealist helps people move from intention to action all over the world.
Indeed: As the world's #1 job site, with over 200 million unique visitors every month from over 60 different countries, Indeed has become the catalyst for putting the world to work. Indeed is intensely passionate about delivering the right fit for every hire. Indeed helps companies of all sizes hire the best talent and offers the best opportunity for job seekers to get hired.
Internships.com: Internships.com, a Chegg service, is the world’s largest student-focused internship marketplace, bringing students, employers and higher education institutions together in one centralized location. Internships.com provides a wide variety of interactive tools and services to enable every student, employer and educator to better understand and optimize internship opportunities, enabling businesses to identify the best job candidates and for students to develop the real-world skills they will need upon graduation.
Daybook: Self-described as "the leading job search resource for political, policy and non-profit professionals." Helpful resource for finding internships and professional positions from entry-senior level. Offers a premium membership service for a fee.
USA Jobs: USAJOBS connects job seekers with federal employment opportunities across the United States and around the world. As the Federal Government’s official employment site, USAJOBS provides resources to help the right people find the right jobs.
The House Vacancy Announcement and Placement Service (HVAPS): The House Vacancy Announcement and Placement Service ("HVAPS") assists United States House members and committees fill staff vacancies by posting job vacancies and maintaining a resume bank of candidates seeking employment.
The Senate Employment Bulletin: The Senate Employment Bulletin is published as a service to Senate offices choosing to advertise staff vacancies.

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Specific Internship Programs at Baylor

Baylor University Libraries Summer Internship Program

Make a Difference during Summer 2026 by serving as an intern with the Baylor University Libraries! Are you a graduate or undergraduate student in English, museum studies, marketing, public relations, journalism, political science, history, religion, education, art, Russian, film & digital media, Slavic and East European Studies, or a related field, or do you have a strong interdisciplinary background? Think about a summer internship with the Baylor University Libraries working on unique projects with the Moody-Jones librarians or in one of the special collections. Improve your skills and marketability!

The following internship opportunities are available for Summer 2026 and are open to current or admitted Baylor graduate or undergraduate students only. May 2026 Baylor graduates are not eligible unless they have been admitted to graduate school at Baylor:

Dowdy Family Endowed Internship (W. R. Poage Library)
Dowdy Family Endowed Internship (The Texas Collection)
D. M. Edwards Endowed Internship (The Texas Collection)
C. Clifton Robinson Armstrong Browning Library Internship (Joint: Armstrong Browning Library and Digitization and Digital Collection Preservation Services)
Nancy Newman Logan Endowed Internship (Keston Center for Religion, Politics, and Society)
Sue Margaret Hughes Endowed Internship (Book Arts and Letterpress Lab)
D.M. Edwards Endowed Internship (Institute for Oral History)
Gerald and Kathy Dunlap Endowed Internship (Experiential Learning)
Forthcoming: Marketing & Communications Internship Opportunity

Note that your application is made to the program as a whole. You may preference opportunities, but during the deliberation process, your unique education and skill set will be considered for all positions.

Compensation: Graduate student summer interns receive up to $5,100 ($17 per hour) working up to 29 hours per week for a total of 300 hours while undergraduate students receive up to $3,600 ($12 per hour) for 300 hours. Due to the number of hours involved, interns may not be enrolled in courses at Baylor during the internship unless the internship is for credit. Enrollment in nonBaylor courses is evaluated individually. McNair Scholars are not eligible for internships during the summer (June-August) in which they do their major research.

S3E Summer Internships

Virtually all S3E summer internships between the junior and senior year are paid at a level to not incur additional costs. Students may earn $8-10 an hour for up to 8 hours a week during the school year to gain experience and financial support.

HHPR Internship Program

Students in the Department of Health, Human Performance, and Recreation (HHPR) follow a structured process for securing internships:

Students are enrolled in Canvas: HHPR Internship Preparation by the Department of Health, Human Performance, and Recreation once they obtain 55 semester hours, so that they are able to complete a self-paced preparation journey through nine steps prior to searching for an internship experience.
Students are encouraged to attend the workshops hosted in collaboration with the Baylor Career Center prior to communicating with potential internship agencies: Resume Creation, Cover Letter Writing, and How to Find an Internship.
Students complete HIPAA, BBP, and PPE training and gain certifications.
Students find and secure an internship site.
Agency Supervisors sign a Confirmation of Acceptance document.
Students submit a formal internship application for HHPR departmental review through Step 9 in Canvas: HHPR Internship Preparation.
Students complete the internship course during the spring semester, summer semester, or fall semester. The dates for the internship are determined by the student/supervisor and will be reported to the Baylor professor prior to beginning the experience that term.
A memorandum of agreement (MOA) must be signed and returned to Baylor University before the student begins the internship experience, should the agency require an agreement.

Tips for a Successful Internship Search

Searching for a job requires effort on multiple fronts. With so many ways to search, how does anyone know what works best? Online? In person? Networking? The answer is ALL OF THE ABOVE. When you apply for jobs online, you are up against hundreds, possibly thousands, of people interested in the same job.

The Baylor University Career Center will help you strategize your search by utilizing your network and meeting with people about jobs you might find online. The best resource in your job or internship search is your Career Success Professional (CSP). Make an appointment with your CSP for help with search strategy.

Recruiting S3E Students

Interested in recruiting S3E students for internships? Registration is open for recruiters to select dates and indicate interests to engage with S3E students. No cost except your time and enthusiasm.

Responsibilities:

Before the internship: Please complete the online form prior to the internship beginning.
During the internship: Please complete the online evaluation form mid-summer (by July 1).
After the internship: Please complete the online evaluation form for the entire internship (by August 15).

Baylor in Washington Program

Interested in learning more about internship opportunities in Washington? Fill out this form to get in touch with a member of our team.

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