Internships

An accounting internship is a crucial step for linking classroom theory with real-world practice in a professional environment. Available across multiple sectors such as private firms, nonprofits, and banks, these opportunities not only refine skills and count toward academic credits, but are offered throughout the fall and spring semesters.

Beyond bolstering your resume, this period is a chance to make a meaningful impact in a workplace and showcase your potential as a prospective employee post-graduation. Approach this pathway with zeal; it could kick start a rewarding accounting career.

All types of organizations offer business internships, from private businesses to banks to computer technology firms.

Offered your senior year, an internship earns you course credit. This is your chance to make contributions to an organization and to demonstrate your potential value as a full-time employee after graduation.

Business Internship Sites

Hilbert’s partnership with many businesses and organizations provides various internship sites from which to choose. Among the sites Hilbert students have been placed are:

• American Wire Tie
• Buffalo Creek Academy
• Boys on the Right Track
• Custom Retirement Solutions
• Daemen College Men’s Basketball
• Davis Financial Services
• DCW Media
• Discover 716
• East Coast Pipeline Baseball Facility
• Elmwood Village Association
• Enterprise Rent-A-Car

• Executive IP, LLC
• Harmac Medical Products
• Hilbert College
• Hilbert College Athletics
• Hilbert College Marketing & Communications
• IRR Supply Centers, Inc
• Jamestown Tarp Skunks
• Keller Williams Realty
• Lancaster-Depew Training Facility
• Local Edge
• Logistic Dynamics, LLC

• MOOG
• Mount Mercy Academy
• PAC Training Facility
• Red Door Real Estate
• Renovation Church
• Sahlen’s Sports Park
• Schunke Agency
• St. Mary’s Athletic Department
• Transitowne Automotive Group
• Tripi Foods
• West Herr Automotive Group
• Wilmac

• Choose up to three internship sites you are interested in applying to at either the federal, state or local level
• Locate the agency’s internship information online and check your eligibility to participate
• If eligible, complete the agency’s application process, using the guidance of the internship coordinator on how to submit a professional application
• If the agency does not post an internship application, contact the agency directly or speak to your internship coordinator for guidance on next steps
• Due to COVID, some agencies have either eliminated internships until further notice or reduced the number of interns accepted and/or the nature of the work performed in the internship

Note: Prior misdemeanor or felony convictions could restrict participation.

A good place to start your search for an internship site is to review New York State’s criminal justice agency listing which is sorted by county. Not all contact information is listed, such as a weblink, but it can give you some names of agencies that you can then further research on the web.

Federal Agencies

• Federal – All Agencies: Search ‘Student Trainee’
• Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• Department of Defense

State Agencies

• New York State – All Agencies
• New York State Police
• New York State Senate

Local Agencies

• NYPD – Department of Investigations
• Erie County Medical Examiner’s Office
• City of Rochester Police Department: Scroll to Police Internships
• Monroe County Medical Examiner’s Office
• Erie County Probation Department

Private Agencies

• Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Research Center

• Lab Internships
• Police Internships

National Opportunities

• National Center for Missing & Exploited Children: See Internship Opportunities
• Chegg Internships
• InternSolutions
• Institute for Citizens & Scholars – Fellowships
• Ocean City Police Department, Ocean City, MD
• Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

Internships are available throughout the fall, spring, and summer semesters, with participants earning academic credits for their involvement. The program offers interns the chance to make meaningful contributions to an organization while showcasing their capabilities as potential full-time employees post-graduation.

Television

• Spectrum
• WGRZ Channel 2
• WIVB Channel 4
• WKBW Channel 7
• WNED-TV

Publication

• Buffalo News

Marketing & Communications Agencies

• American Advertising Federation
• Bruckman Media
• Hemisphere Communications (David Baldassari)
• Trellis Marketing

Radio

• WBFO

• Internship Supervisor Information Sheet (PDF)
• Internship Agreement Form (PDF)
• Bi-Weekly Internship Report (PDF)
• Midterm Professional Evaluation Report (PDF)
• Final Professional Evaluation Report (PDF)
• Final Student Report Guidelines (PDF)

Offered during both fall and spring semesters, these internships not only allow you to earn academic credits but also give you a chance to demonstrate your capabilities as a prospective employee.

Please be aware that having prior misdemeanor or felony convictions may limit your eligibility to participate in this program. 

All Forensic Science: CSI Applicants Need:

• 90 hours at the end of term prior to internship
• Cumulative GPA 3.0
• GPA of 3.0 in forensic science classes
• Completion of six forensic science classes
• Faculty Recommendation
• Confirmed internship site
• All 4+1 students are required to complete an internship and are given priority in placement into the internship course
• Complete internship course application
  • Fall applications are due late January of the previous semester
  • Spring applications are due early October of the previous semester
• Meet with Internship Coordinator to determine site eligibility

Factors for internships and employment are agency-dependent considerations. Students have some control over and should be aware of these factors to be employable in the CJ/FS fields. Some factors to consider may include:

• Vision requirements
• Physical fitness requirements
• Tattoo visibility
• Social media posts
• Completion of drug testing, polygraph examinations, psychological screening, physical and medical examinations
• Background checks
  • drug usage
  • criminal history
  • driving records
  • credit history
  • personal associations
  • and/or past work performance

Students are required to search for an internship. When beginning your search for an internship, a useful resource is the New York State criminal justice agency listing organized by county. While it may not provide complete contact details, this list can offer you starting points in terms of agency names which you can research further online. You can also search for agencies listed by level.

Find More Internship Sites

Hilbert’s partnership with many businesses and organizations provides various internship sites from which to choose. Among the sites Hilbert students have been placed are:

• Alleyway Theater
• American Express
• Ellicott Development Co.
• Federal Reserve
• Motorola
• Nabisco, Inc.

• New York Stock Exchange
• Rich Products
• U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
• U.S. Customs
• Walt Disney World
• Waring Financial Services