Honors Internship Support
The Shackouls Honors College is pleased to announce the availability of funds to support student internships!
Description
The Shackouls Honors College aims to broaden the students’ world view and supports experience beyond the educational. Students should be exposed to different locations and pursue opportunities that will provide invaluable life experiences and a more cosmopolitan perspective.
Students across many fields—especially those pursuing internships that may be unpaid or low paying—often struggle to find opportunities that offer both meaningful experience and financial support. Thanks to the generosity of Dr. Edward Scott, we can now provide internship funding for Honors students, enabling them to confidently pursue competitive positions that might otherwise be out of reach. While funding is limited, we are committed to supporting as many deserving students as possible. We accept internship applications on a rolling basis with a final deadline of April 20 for summer internships. Determinations for funding are made with respect to available funds.
MAXIMUM grant amounts are $2500 for internships and are intended for durations of 8 or more weeks. Internships that have some salary or other support attached cannot expect to be funded at the same level. Support from the Shackouls Honors College will be primarily limited to travel and housing support.
PLEASE NOTE: These are maximums and designed for standard situations. Many grants awarded will be less and very few in extraordinary situations may be slightly higher. It is our expectation that students will be entrepreneurial in seeking funding and to help the Shackouls Honors College leverage our limited funding and serve as many students as possible.
Application Materials
- A formal letter including an explanation and justification for your funding request.
- A detailed budget for the internship experience including any compensation you expect to receive for your work and all other funding requested and/or received from your home department, college, or other institutional funding source.
- Official documentation confirming the compensation you expect to receive for your work, regardless of if the internship is classified as paid or unpaid.
Expectations Of Support Recipients
If you receive internship support, you will be expected to:
- Work under pressure to quickly produce high quality work in high stakes situations.
- Write a summative report within two months upon your return to MSU and submit your report to funding@honors.msstate.edu. Reports must be submitted as a Microsoft Word or PDF document and will be linked here so that future students can benefit from the experiences of their predecessors.
Explore internship opportunities through the Mississippi State University Career Center!
If you would like to discuss what is necessary to obtain academic credit for your internship experience, contact the Director of Undergraduate Research, Dr. Anastasia Elder or the Dean of the Shackouls Honors College. The ability to do extra work to obtain credit could allow students to engage in internships during a semester of the academic year.