Drawing on the broad array of relationships that QMSS maintains with organizations and industries in the New York City area, our students frequently opt to supplement their coursework with practical internships. These internships may be taken for two (2) points of academic credit provided that they offer substantive, professional research experience that is consistent with the standards and pedagogical concerns of the program.
The following is a cross-section of the types of internships that QMSS students have held in the past. If you are offering an internship that might be appropriate for a QMSS student, please let us know.
Internship was funded by IFC (the financial arm of the World Bank) in conjunction with Columbia Business School. Olivia and her colleagues served as short-term consultants for Rwanda's business school, the School of Finance and Banking helping to develop key strategic initiatives for the SFB around the main goal of reaching self-sustainability (decreasing reliance on government funding). They worked with the school administration, several government ministries and the Rwanda government capacity building body - HIDA.
The following is a cross-section of the types of internships that QMSS students have held in the past. If you are offering an internship that might be appropriate for a QMSS student, please let us know.
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ABC News
ABC: Working closely with the Director of Polling for ABC News, the internship involved a variety of data tasks as well as writing up analysis. The intern's first publication at ABC is available. Several students have participated in this internship in the last few years and continue to find it incredibly valuable.Congressional Budget Office
CBO provides the Congress with the objective, timely, and nonpartisan analyses needed for economic and budgetary decisions. Interns contribute to CBO’s work in program areas such as budget and tax policy, health care, national defense, the environment, education, retirement and other income assistance, regulation, and public investment.Summer internships typically last for 10 weeks and include compensation based on academic level and work experience.
Ideal candidates are pursuing graduate academic programs in:
Economics
Public policy/Administration
Health policy
Financial management
Mathematics
Statistics
Physics
Engineering
Because the internship are project based, current college junior and seniors are also eligible to apply in the event that CBO offers projects based to their skill and experience level.
Information about the internship and the application procedure is available on CBO’s Web site. The application period for the 2008 Summer Internship Program is December 17, 2007 through March 3, 2008. Students provide general information and submit their cover letter, résumé, references, and unofficial transcripts or course information online. Students who register at www.cbo.gov/vas_index.cfm will get an e-mail notifying them when CBO begins accepting applications in future years and when we post new jobs.
Selections will be based on academic achievement, the relevance of academic work to CBO’s responsibilities, and work experience and should be completed by April 4, 2008.
Harris Interactive
Harris Interactive: Research internship with the Health and Public Policy Research Group.New York City District Attorney's Office-Special Narcotics Division
NYC DA's Office: Evaluate alternative to incarceration programs and candidates. Research and analyze legal practices and procedures to gain insight into the modern judicial system. Learn in depth about government policy and practice pertaining to law and in particular narcotics legislation. Accompany Assistant District Attorneys to courtroom proceedings. Compile dataset and carry out analysis of program efficacy based on recidivism rates stratified by various sociodemographic characteristics.Porter Novelli
Porter Novelli: Quantitative Researcher, Dept of Strategic Planning & Reserach
Position involved a number of tasks of measurement and evaluation related to research on the health care industry.
United Nations
United Nations: Statistical Intern - United Nations Internship Programme.
Summer internship in United Nations in the Demographic and Social Statistics Branch.
United Nations: Data Analyst
Winter Internship:
Located
in a newly set up section called Strategic Workforce Planning
initiative, which is going to focus on the evaluation and
reorganization of some UN departments. The UN bureaucratic leaders are
dissatisfied with the human resource construction and want to make
changes in the future.The interns will carry out pioneering research
assessing the current situation, finding possible solutions to the
problems they identify and most importantly, coming up with a credible
and systematic report for policy changes.
World Bank
World Bank: Intern - RwandaInternship was funded by IFC (the financial arm of the World Bank) in conjunction with Columbia Business School. Olivia and her colleagues served as short-term consultants for Rwanda's business school, the School of Finance and Banking helping to develop key strategic initiatives for the SFB around the main goal of reaching self-sustainability (decreasing reliance on government funding). They worked with the school administration, several government ministries and the Rwanda government capacity building body - HIDA.