Internship Funding
Pathways Internship Funding provides financial assistance to Emory undergraduate students, who are in their first three years, to increase their access to valuable experiential learning opportunities, both domestically and internationally, during the summer.
This one-time award helps you remove financial barriers to your dream summer internship, research, or applied arts experience. Eligible summer experiential learning opportunities may include internships in any industry, research, hands-on work and apprenticeships, artist residencies, engineering and coding boot camps, or clinical shadowing and structured observation opportunities.
You can use Pathways Internship Funding to cover expenses related to your summer experience, such as:
- Housing
- Airfare
- Commuting
- Food
THE SUMMER 2025 APPLICATION OPENS IN FEBRUARY 2025.
Removing financial barriers to help students say YES to Outstanding Opportunities
Internship Awards
The Summer 2025 Pathways Internship Funding Application reopens in February 2025.
Pathways Domestic Award
This award is for students who have accepted an eligible summer opportunity within their home country. If awarded, students may receive up to $3,000.
Pathways Global Award
This award is for students who have accepted an eligible summer opportunity outside of their home country. If awarded, students may receive up to $4,000.
Who can apply?
- Any current Emory undergraduate, on the Atlanta or Oxford campuses, from first-years to juniors, may apply if they have not already received Pathways Internship Funding.
- Students enrolled in any of Emory's four undergraduate colleges, including Emory College of Arts and Sciences, Oxford College, Goizueta Business School, and Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing, may apply.
- Current seniors may only apply if they are graduating in Fall 2025 or entering their fifth year of a 4+1 program. Seniors graduating in Spring 2025 or Summer 2025, or anyone not returning to Emory in Fall 2025, are ineligible.
- Both domestic and international students may apply.
- Applicants must have secured an experience that totals at least 8 weeks and 240 hours during the summer months (i.e., between May to August). Students may combine multiple experiences to reach this threshold.
- Applicants must have secured a qualifying summer experience by the Summer 2025 Pathways Internship Funding Application final deadline in Spring 2025.
- Students who have secured an unpaid summer experience are strongly encouraged to apply.
- Students who have a paid summer experience can also use the award toward supporting cost-of-living expenses that remain unmet.
The Funding Process
Step 1
Secure an Eligible Summer Experience
Summer experiences may be paid or unpaid, and can include internship opportunities in any industry, research, hands-on work and apprenticeships, artist residencies, engineering or coding boot camps, clinical shadowing, structured observation opportunities, etc.
Find an InternshipStep 2
Obtain Offer Letter from Employer
Obtain an offer letter(s) from your employer(s) on official letterhead that includes your full legal name; job title; an exact start and end date for your employment; the number of hours you are expected to work per week, work location (i.e., in-person or hybrid); name and email address of your supervisor, expected salary for your position, full physical address of your employment including the street address, city, state, and zip code; brief description of the goals, objectives, and/or expected duties of your employment; and the number of hours to be worked, totaling at least 8 weeks and 240 hours.
View A Sample Offer LetterStep 3
Complete the Pathways Budget Worksheet
The Pathways Budget Worksheet will help determine your funding needs.
See a Sample WorksheetStep 4
Submit your Pathways Funding Application
Complete the application on College Connect. Start a new application and select Pathways Internship Funding. As part of the application, upload the employer offer letter and complete the budget worksheet.
Application opens in Spring 2025Step 5
COMPLETE INTERN 496R/497R OR URP 499R
If accepted, you will be automatically enrolled in INTERN 496R or INTERN 497R, or if you are pursuing a research experience, URP 499R. These are zero-credit courses that guide you during the summer experience.
Read More About INTERN 496R / 497RStep 6
Attend Pathways Reflection Event
Required event in Fall 2025 to share and reflect on your experiences with your peers, staff, and faculty.
Internship Resources
Career and Professional Development provides students a variety of resources and tools to help them find employment and summer internships including:
Handshake, CareerShift, or other targeted sites
Career Expo's, Professional Conferences & Meetups
On Campus, Off Campus, and Virtual
Resume, Cover Letters, and Offer Emails
i.e. Affinity Job boards, Professional Associations, etc.
24/7 online resume review tool
Career and Professional Development will also help you develop a strategy to meet your career aspiration needs with an enriching internship experience.
If you need help identifying the right opportunities, reflecting on what you want, or articulating what you have to offer, please schedule an appointment with a career coach.
Internship Qualifications
- For summer experiences outside the United States, the country of employment must have a US State Department travel advisory level of 1 or 2.
- Students can combine multiple summer experiences to reach the threshold of 240 hours and 8 weeks. Eligible experiences can include, but are not limited to:
- Two four-week internships at 30 hours per week
- One six-week internship at 40 hours per week, plus two weeks of shadowing a professional
- Eight weeks of shadowing different professionals at 30 hours per week
- Students who do not have qualifying work experience for a structured internship should consider a rotational shadow internship. For these internships, a student would rotate among various departments within a company or different professionals within an industry. For example, a student interested in law could arrange to shadow four law professionals on a two-week basis for thirty hours a week.
Additional Information
Both in-person and hybrid experiences are eligible. However, fully virtual or remote experiences are ineligible for Pathways Internship Funding consideration.
Yes, the College Connect application automatically saves your progress. You may exit the application and resume at a later date.
Students who have paid experiences may still qualify for funding if they have unmet cost-of-living expenses. In the application, we ask you to tally the cost-of-living expenses directly related to your summer experience(s), and then subtract any income you’ll receive, if applicable. If there is a difference, we can fund up to the award maximum.
If your income exceeds your cost-of-living expenses, then you would not qualify for Pathways Internship Funding.
You may submit your application before finalizing your summer housing and travel arrangements. You will be asked to provide realistic, evidence-based estimates of your travel (e.g., airfare), housing, and commuting expenses in the application.
Pathways Internship Funding cannot be used for costs of living with parents/guardians or at your home address (i.e., housing and food/groceries). However, applicants residing with parents/guardians or at their home address may tally their daily commuting expenses for funding consideration.
For travel expenses (e.g., airfare), Summer 2025 Pathways Internship Funding can only cover travel expenses from your home/permanent address to and from your summer experience location. In other words, we cannot cover transportation expenses from the Emory Atlanta or Oxford campus to your home/permanent address. If you have multiple experiences, we can also consider travel expenses between the two experience location(s).
Please note, if your summer experience is in the same state as your home/permanent address, we are unable to cover the cost of your airfare, as your travel expenses from Emory to your home/permanent address are already taken into consideration by Emory’s Office of Financial Aid’s calculation of your financial aid.
Study abroad programs and academic classes are not eligible for Pathways Internship Funding.