Fermilab offers a variety of internships, fellowships, and apprenticeships for high school, undergraduate and graduate students, educators, and professionals. Working alongside our scientific, engineering, computing, and operations professionals, our program participants support and advance particle physics and accelerator research.
Application deadlines, eligibility requirements, selection processes, project assignments, and participant deliverables vary by program. Explore the site to find the program that is right for you.
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Internships programs
- High school
- PRISM – Program for Research Innovation and STEM Mentorship — This program provides the opportunity for students to explore cutting-edge STEM fields while connecting with Fermilab STEM professionals.
- VALOR JROTC — The VALOR JROTC program invites high school cadets to experience technical hands-on training during the summer months.
- Undergraduate
- PRISM – Program for Research Innovation and STEM Mentorship — ASPIRE provides immersive learning experiences in accelerator engineering fields at Fermilab.
- CCI – Community College Internships — Sponsored by the Department of Energy Office of Science, community college students are immersed in STEM technical training during the summer months.
- FURSI – URA-Fermilab Undergraduate Research Internship — Sponsored by the Universities Research Association (URA), the URA-Fermilab Undergraduate Research Summer Internship (FURSI) engages undergraduate students in STEM to conduct research at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in fulfillment of its mission. The S&T portfolio of Fermilab covers the research areas of particle physics, high-energy physics, accelerator science, computational physics, engineering and emerging technologies.
- Cooperative Education Program — Undergraduate students work alongside world-class scientists and engineers. Students apply what they learn at their home institutions to cutting-edge experiments and projects vital to Fermilab’s scientific mission.
- FURSI – URA-Fermilab Undergraduate Research Internship — Sponsored by the Universities Research Association (URA), the URA-Fermilab Undergraduate Research Summer Internship (FURSI) engages undergraduate students in STEM to conduct research at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in fulfillment of its mission. The S&T portfolio of Fermilab covers the research areas of particle physics, high-energy physics, accelerator science, computational physics, engineering and emerging technologies.
- LBNF/DUNE, South Dakota — Undergraduate engineering internship for students majoring in mining and related fields who are interested in working at a major underground construction project, and undergraduate business students interested in learning more about construction procurement and management.
- MSIIP – Minority Serving Institutions Internship Program — NNSA-MSIIP offers summer or year-long undergraduate and graduate paid internship opportunities with the NNSA, national laboratories, and site offices. Internships involve projects focused on engineering, science, research, technology, policy, business and government relations.
- QCIPU – Quantum Computing Internship for Physics Undergraduates — Physics undergraduate three-week program for students interested in quantum computing for the simulation of physics to gain hands-on Python and Qiskit programming experience.
- SULI – Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship — Sponsored by the Department of Energy Office of Science, undergraduate physics or engineering majors work with scientists or engineers on projects at the frontier of particle physics research.
- U.S. CMS Undergraduate Internship — The U.S. CMS Summer Undergraduate Research Internship Program seeks to address the under-representation of women and minoritized students in STEM fields, in particular Physics. It is a 10-week paid internship program, which offers female and minority undergraduate students an opportunity to perform a project under the mentorship of scientists working at the frontier of Physics at one of the <strong>50+ institutions </strong>in the United States.
- Graduate
- ASPIRE – Advancing Scholars in Physics and Innovative Research in Engineering — ASPIRE provides immersive learning experiences in accelerator engineering fields at Fermilab.
- FCSI – Fermilab Computational Science Internship — Graduate student cybersecurity, cloud-based distributed computing, big data, high-performance computing, machine learning, and quantum computing opportunity to use cutting-edge tools and technology.
- SCGSR — Graduate awardees receive funds to conduct part of their thesis research at a host DOE laboratory/facility.
- Faculty
- PRISM – Program for Research Innovation and STEM Mentorship — This program provides the opportunity for students to explore cutting-edge STEM fields while connecting with Fermilab STEM professionals.
- VALOR JROTC — The VALOR JROTC program invites high school cadets to experience technical hands-on training during the summer months.
- Cooperative
- Cooperative Education Program — Undergraduate students work alongside world-class scientists and engineers. Students apply what they learn at their home institutions to cutting-edge experiments and projects vital to Fermilab’s scientific mission.