MBS
EXTERNSHIP EXCHANGE
PROGRAM
Gain experience working with real companies
The Rutgers MBS Externship Exchange provides a transformative experience that bridges the gap between academia and industry, giving you a competitive edge in your career journey. We prepare diverse, talented, and driven students to learn, lead, and embody excellence. Through this program, students collaborate on real-world projects with leading companies, nonprofits, and government agencies, all while receiving expert guidance and developing essential skills.
The Externship Experience
Whether you’re an undergraduate or graduate student, the Rutgers MBS Externship Exchange offers a unique opportunity to apply your knowledge, develop your skills, and build a network of professional contacts. Launch your career with an experience that sets you apart.
Enrolling 160+ students each semester
35+ Projects every semester
Projects span 10-14 weeks a semester
8-10 hour weekly time commitment from students
6-8 person student teams per project
Our Students Join Us To –
Gain Real World Experience
Receive mentorship & guidance
Expand their network
Explore career paths
Gain a career edge
Build their resume
Student Training Hours
Projects & Presentations
Partners
Mentors
Understanding the Difference
Externships and Internships are valuable pre-professional experiences that are often confused, but they offer distinct learning opportunities. Internships are commonly one-on-one relationships with an employer (company) or a mentor, with the mentor choosing the intern. Externships are team-based projects happening in a campus setting with the Externship staff matching students into project teams with pre-assigned mentors. While both provide valuable opportunities to gain exposure to a particular industry or field, externships focus on team-building skills in the context of a technical or business project.
Understanding the Difference
Externships and Internships are valuable pre-professional experiences that are often confused, but they offer distinct learning opportunities. Internships are commonly one-on-one relationships with an employer (company) or a mentor, with the mentor choosing the intern. Externships are team-based projects happening in a campus setting with the Externship staff matching students into project teams with pre-assigned mentors. While both provide valuable opportunities to gain exposure to a particular industry or field, externships focus on team-building skills in the context of a technical or business project.
Paths For Every Passion
Business & Marketing Projects
These projects are for our corporate partners, whether small businesses, start-ups, non-profits or Fortune 500 companies, where students build business or marketing plans, scope out competition, or look at market share and trends.
Technical Projects
Students use their technical skills, whether website design, analytics, chemistry, or engineering, to discover new ways to capture or embody ideas, predict behaviors of a systems, assess risks in a particular context, and many more topics..
Bootcamps
Involve deep dive into the skills and concerns of a particular industry. Current bootcamps cover the assessment of corporations from an investment point of view, an exploration of upcoming concerns in the health field, and a deep dive in particular aspects of the maritime industry with a focus on risk assessment. Shape your future with diverse project opportunities across 25+ concentrations.
Analytics & Data Science
Analytics & Data Science
Analytics & Data Science
Analytics & Data Science
Analytics & Data Science
Analytics & Data Science
Analytics & Data Science
Analytics & Data Science
Analytics & Data Science
Analytics & Data Science
Analytics & Data Science
Analytics & Data Science
and more…
Our Partners
Our partners span Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, start-ups, small businesses, and internal Rutgers units, providing semester-long virtual projects in STEM and business disciplines for hands-on student experience.
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• Colgate Palmolive • NJ Transit • L'Oreal • DIMACS • Siemens • Get A Beautiful skin • Get A Beautiful skin • Get A Beautiful skin • Get A Beautiful skin
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Program Overview
Expand your knowledge and experience
