Cooperative Summer Internship Program for M.R.P. and M.A. Students
AAP Career Development helps you secure a summer internship with local, regional, national, and international organizations for first-year graduate students in the M.R.P. and M.A. programs.
The college offers stipends ($1875) to students between the first and second year of the M.R.P. and M.A. programs who secure professional internships (full or part-time) that have a connection to the field of planning. Students may also receive this stipend if they engage in summer research work with faculty related to planning.
AAP Career Services invites a wide variety of organizations to participate in the program each year, but students are also encouraged to seek out specific organizations of interest. Students may contact organizations themselves, or collaborate with AAP Career Services in contacting the internship hosts.
A list of prospective employers and required materials for application is available in February from AAP Career Services. Students will apply for positions directly with employers using the information provided by employers.. Selected students should be notified by late April.
Below is a list of organizations that have hosted interns in previous years, and other groups that may be of interest.
- Affordable Housing Institute
- Beijing 798 Art District Cultural and Creative Industry Investment
- Bluebird BID
- Boston Redevelopment Authority
- City of Buffalo
- City of Ithaca
- City of Oakland
- City of St. Petersburg
- Cleveland Restoration Society
- Design Trust for Public Space
- Effective NY
- Enterprise Community Partners
- Ernst Valery Investments Corp
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Good Jobs First
- Historic Ithaca
- Human Scale Studio
- International Rescue Committee
- Israel Museum
- Ithaca Carshare
- Ithaca – Tompkins County Transportation Council
- Manhattan Borough President Office
- Natural Resources Defense Council’s (NRDC) Green Neighborhoods Program
- NY Academy of Medicine
- NYC Department of City Planning
- NYC Parks Department Planning Division
- Partnership for Public Good
- Pilot Projects
- Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation
- Project for Public Spaces
- Randall+West
- Resource Systems Group
- The Campaign for Greater Buffalo
- Thriving Communities
- TCAT – Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit
- Tompkins County
- University Neighborhood Housing Program
- US Department of Agriculture
- UWF Historic Trust