Internship Opportunities

Architecture | Professor Michael McGlynn
Internship opportunities at design and planning firms allow students to spend a semester and/or summer experiencing what it might be like to work in the allied design professions. We help students find internships that align with their interests in firms across the nation and around the world. Kansas City Design Center (KCDC) located in the heart of downtown Kansas City, is a nationally recognized partnership of local civic leaders, professional designers, and design/planning students and faculty. KCDC engages students in a learning laboratory that actively explores Kansas City's future development.

Interior Architecture | Assistant Professor Scott Barton ; Industrial Design | Professor of Practice Tim McKeown
An internship is an important component of your education. You will work directly at a firm with one or more of the areas included within your degree, for IARC: interior architecture or furniture design. Multi-disciplinary firms provide valuable opportunities for both degrees as do firms with specialties (i.e. exhibit or lighting design). During your internship, you maintain full-time academic standing by being enrolled in 14-credit hours of online courses. You will participate online with periodic postings and monthly reports. Upon returning to campus, you will participate in a college-wide internship exhibit and will speak to other students regarding your experience. Internships must be compensated experiences, and this can include various models such as hourly pay, tuition reimbursement, or paid room and board. For semester long internships, IARC will go during their 4th-year spring semester.

LARCP Professor Huston Gibson and Virginia Brunner-Livingston
Landscape architecture students in the non-baccalaureate track are required to complete a semester-long off-campus experience for academic credit. The experience may be an internship, study abroad, or KCDC. Regardless of this experience, an internship is required during their program of study.

Regional and community planning students in the non-baccalaureate track are required to complete a semester-long off-campus experience for academic credit. The experience may be an internship, study abroad, or KCDC.

Real estate and community development students, may also participate in internships, study abroad, or KCDC for academic credit.

Students in all our graduate programs, including our online MS Community Development students, may also participate in internships, with potential to receive academic credit.

Information and requirements for the internship for academic credit are in the LARCP Internship Agreement.