What is the Lesley University internship experience?
Lesley’s internship professionals are dedicated to assisting and supporting you throughout the entire process of securing your internships. Internship staff will work with you to ensure you have the best possible experiences by guiding you to internship opportunities that match your interests and professional goals. Along with the Career Resource Center staff, the Internship staff will prepare you to meet with potential supervisors by sharpening your résumé writing and interviewing skills.
All College of Liberal Arts and Sciences students complete credit-bearing internships. On-site hours requirements vary by major, but range from 6-18 hours/week. Lesley has over 250 partnerships in the Cambridge area, including major hospitals, community agencies, for-profit/not-for-profit businesses, media affiliations (print/TV/radio), local museums, arts programs, libraries, and more. Students may also have an opportunity to complete an international internship. The Internship Office is constantly adding new and exciting internship opportunities to its existing approved list of internship options.
At the College of Art and Design, students take specific program Internship Seminars to help develop their hiring materials and understand their industry, and then work with their Seminar Professor and the LA+D Internship Coordinator to secure an internship. Internships vary from student to student - all completing 120-180 hours, in sites from large companies to small organizations and single artists. Art + Design students have been interns in sites such as Puma North America, Hill Holiday, Tufts Medical Center, American Repertory Theater, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Digital Silver Imaging, Boston Magazine, WGBH, Griffin Museum of Photography, The Guild of Boston Artists, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Printmakers, Whitney Museum, Photographic Resource Center, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Hasbro, Soup2Nuts, CloudKid, FableVision Studios, Public Art Boston, Anthropologie and many more.