Internships

An internship during your undergraduate years helps you further clarify your vocational decisions, build career contacts and experience, increase the likelihood of getting into graduate school and expand your confidence in your chosen field.

The Internship Program in Messiah's Career and Professional Development Center is nationally recognized for its excellence and cutting edge training for today's workforce. In fact, hundreds of colleges, universities and businesses use Messiah's materials or model their internship program after ours.  

Through internships and other experiences, Messiah students are widely-known to be prepared for their careers upon graduation. This is is why more than 400 employers and some of the nation's best graduate schools eagerly welcome Messiah graduates into their organizations.

To find out more about internship opportunities at Messiah University, visit our career and internship center. 

Visit the Career Center

Popular internships for Messiah University students

• andCulture
• Bravo Group
• Central PA Youth Ballet
• Duck Donuts
• Fulton Financial
• Gannett Fleming
• Harley-Davidson
• Harrisburg City Islanders
• Harrisburg Magazine
• HOPE International
• IBM
• LifeGuide Financial Advisors
• Nashville Predators
• National Association of Social Workers
• Office of Public Defender
• PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
• PA House of Representatives
• Pavone
• Philhaven Behavioral Health Services
• Phoenix Contact
• Purdue University
• Smithsonian - National Air & Space Museum
• Soccer Shots
• Stanley Black & Decker
• Susquehanna Art Museum
• Swatara Township Police Department
• U.S. Marshal
• U.S. Navy
• UTZ Quality Foods
• Walt Disney World
• Whitaker Center
• WGAL TV
• WHTM/abc27
• Winding Hill Veterinary Clinic
• WITF

Service learning

Messiah is an academic community profoundly committed to worshipping God. And as we stand before God and hear His voice, we feel strongly called to care for others. As a Messiah student, you participate in a truly remarkable network of service connections that reach around the world and that respond to many different human difficulties: hunger, illiteracy, illness, loneliness, disability, delinquency, exploitation and abuse. 

Through participation in outreach teams, service "plunge days," ministry groups and community agencies, you start to realize that not only do you give back to others, but others give back to you. The blessing travels in both directions.

Each year, Messiah students collectively volunteer thousands of hours to community service—locally, nationally and globally. The Agape Center for Local and Global Engagement provides opportunities for you in and out of the classroom and offers service-learning resources to all our faculty. 

To find out more information about service learning at Messiah University visit the Agape Center. 

Visit the Agape Center

Off-campus programs 

What may look like a quiet, suburban campus in central Pennsylvania is really six continents and 24 time zones. At Messiah, your college experience expands beyond our Mechanicsburg campus and reaches around the globe. You can choose to study or serve in countries around the world, strengthening the groundwork you've been laying at Messiah all along: how to hear differing perspectives and to weave new insights into a vision that is your own. 

Spend three weeks in Zambia studying health care in the developing world. Spend spring break serving with our sister community in Bolivia. Spend a semester in Italy honing your artistic skills. Go to the Middle East and discover a passion for tutoring children. Whether it's Germany, Australia, India or Costa Rica, you see yourself through the eyes of others and understand yourself in new ways. 

For more information on off-campus programs click the link below. 

Off-campus programs

Leadership

Messiah's campus is an active, busy place. Throughout your time here, you will find many opportunities to "belong" and meet people who share your interests and hobbies, or who challenge you to stretch yourself and try new things.

One of the ways you might stretch yourself during your time at Messiah is by holding an on-campus leadership position to strengthen the Messiah community, bring new resources or programs to campus or evoke change. There are nearly 160 leadership positions at Messiah that are eligible for meeting a student's experiential learning requirement. These positions are available through offices such as Residence Life, Campus Ministries, Student Involvement and Leadership Programs, Office of Alumni and Parent Relations, The Collaboratory, Agape Center, The Pulse (Messiah’s student-run media hub), and Sustainability Office.

Undergraduate research 

There's an old idea that you get a college education, and then you go out into the world to use it. At Messiah, getting a college education includes using it in the world right now. 

Messiah University offers a wide range of exciting and meaningful research opportunities across all academic programs. Our low faculty-to-student ratio makes Messiah an ideal place for you to collaborate with classmates; faculty; alumni; and regional, national and global organizations. Together you’ll work to identify and create solutions to real-world problems and to contribute significant research in your areas of scholarship and interest.

The Collaboratory for Strategic Partnerships and Applied Research is just one of the many ways Messiah helps you put something new you've learned into action. Through the Collaboratory, you can partner with international mission agencies, such as World Vision, to offer your growing expertise to underserved communities throughout the world. 

Learn more about undergraduate research at Messiah