Financing Your Internship
Scholarship opportunities are available through and off-campus to help fund unpaid internships!
Bright Futures Initiative: 'Unpaid Internship' Scholarship Fund
The Bright Futures Initiative awards students with need-based scholarships ranging from $100-$1,000 to help offset expenses incurred during unpaid internships in the summer. Scholarships are generously funded by the Eisen Family, the University Career Center & The President’s Promise, and individual donors through Maryland Giving Day.
Bright Futures Summer 2025 Application Timeline:
- Application Opens: Monday, March 31, 2025
- Application Closes: Monday, May 5, 2025
Checkout these scholarship opportunities!
- Sustainability Internship: Contact Erin Rooney-Eckel (erooney@umd.edu)
- AGNR Experiential Learning Fund
- ARH-U Ready & Foxworth Scholarships: Contact Kate Juhl (kjuhl@umd.edu)
- BSOS Undergraduate Experience Funds
- School of Public Health Scholarship Fund for experiential learning
- Do Good “Impact Interns”, a paid internship focused on social impact
- Gilman International Scholarship for international internships via UMD National Scholarships Office
- UMD Education Abroad Scholarships for international internships
- Summer Research Scholarships via UMD National Scholarships Office
- Division of Student Affairs Scholarships
- BA Women's Alliance, for the educational, personal, and professional development of women
- Jeffrey A. McLean Foundation, for economically challenged college students to participate in unpaid internships
- Conference on Asian Pacific American Leadership (CAPAL), Public Service Scholarship program
Check professional associations in your field(s) of interest to see if they offer awards or scholarships for students.