Through our PRIME@Work internship, students secure an internship with a PRIME-partnering company to utilize their classroom learnings in a corporate context. Students complete the internship in the fall OR spring term while fulfilling course requirements. The internship may be waived if a student is employed, involved in a start-up or wants to pursue research; program director's approval required.
Masters in Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship
Campus to Career
Integrated work-learning opportunity offers hands-on experience that applies classroom learning to real-world situations
Campus to Career
Integrated work-learning opportunity offers hands-on experience that applies classroom learning to real-world situations
The academic experience for students in the PRIME program is enhanced through a semester-long, co-curricular internship that is completed during the course of the program. The internship consists of embedded experiences at businesses that align to the students’ sector of interest (healthcare, cleantech, data sciences, fintech etc.), and focuses on challenges identified by the firms agreeing to take student teams.
The PRIME@Work internship program enables graduate students to contribute their unique skill sets at forward-thinking companies, providing career exploration to gain exposure to different organizations and fields to help students discover their career path.
- You choose! Fall or Spring semester
- 12 weeks in duration
- 8-10 hours per week
- In person, hybrid or virtually
- Paid or unpaid
- Typically 2-3 interns to a specific project
Our corporate partners recruit for entry-level business analyst, technology analyst, product and project management roles.
| Company | Industry |
|---|---|
| ACS Industries | Precision equipment manufacturing |
| Adaptive | Cloud computing optimization |
| Beam Impact | Fundraising for non-profits |
| BRF | Food processing |
| Cherrystone Angel Group | Angel/venture capital |
| Cleantech Group | Strategic consulting and advisory |
| commonFont | Experienced management technology |
| FedTech I/O | Technology commercialization services |
| Flux Marine | High performance electric marine propulsion systems to the boating industry |
| FMGlobal | Innovation arm of insurance company |
| Headwall Photonics | Imaging devices and solutions |
| Intus Care | Healthcare |
| MassChallenge | Incubator/accelerator |
| Pangea | College talent sourcing app |
| Primitive | Developer of immersive, virtual worlds for software development |
| Revela | Real estate management and data analytics software |
| Rhode Island Innovation Hub | Non-profit/government/Incubator |
| Sproutel | Smart toys for juvenile diabetics |
| State of RI | Management of State of RI's pension fund |
| Terra Pave | Pavement technology |
| WAM Ventures | Venture capital |
| Xerox Parc | Research and Development |
“ PRIME is difficult but it's really going to help you. It's the last opportunity to get all of those bits of knowledge and information that you might have missed during undergrad. This is the time where you actually learn so much in such a little time ”