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Internship Opportunities

The Department's Master's Program requires all students to complete an Internship in a planning or planning related agency or firm. These internships may be a paid or unpaid positions, although the Department targets paid internships.

The intent of the Internship is to give students a unique learning opportunity, allowing them to put many of the planning concepts and methods learned in the classroom into practice in a realistic professional setting. Typically, internship take place during the summer between the first and second year of study. However, many students are interested in fulfilling this requirement through part-time employment during the school year.

These internships represent an excellent opportunity for employers bring on an employee as an energetic, skilled part-time person and train that employee to meet the agency's or firm's needs. Many of the Departments interns have been hired as full-time employees upon graduation, streamlining the search process and saving the agency or firm a great deal of time, energy, and money.

If you are interested in bringing one of the Department's excellent students to your agency or firm through an internship please call the Department (850-644-8515) or contact Department Chairperson Charles Connerly (cconnerl@fsu.edu) or Master's Program Director Tim Chapin (tchapin@fsu.edu).

Selected Recent Internship Placements

Non-Profit Organizations

1000 Friends of Florida, Tallahassee
Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee
The Marketing Institute, Tallahassee
Urban Land Institute, Washington, DCThe

Local Governments

City of Altamonte Springs Planning Department, Altamonte Springs
Collier County Planning Department, Ft. Myers
Hillsborough County City-County Planning Commission, Tampa
Leon County Department of Growth and Environmental Management, Tallahassee
Orange County Planning Department, Orlando

Regional or State Agencies

Florida Advisory Council on Intergovernmental Relations, Tallahassee
Florida Department of Children and Families, Tallahassee
Florida Department of Community Affairs, Tallahassee
Florida Department of Education, Tallahassee
Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Tallahassee
Florida Department of Transportation, Tallahassee
Florida State Legislature, Tallahassee
Office of Program Policy Analysis and Government Accountability, Tallahassee

Private Firms

Cambridge Systematics
Post, Buckley, Schuh and Jernigan, Inc., Tallahassee
Transportation Consulting Group, Tallahassee
URS Consulting
WilsonMiller