Academic Internship Program

Architecture Internship is an elective off-campus academic opportunity open to fourth year students enrolled in the professionally accredited five year Bachelor or Master of Architecture degree program at Kansas State University. Since its inauguration in 1970, almost 1,000 students and more than 400 sponsoring organizations across the United States and abroad have participated. Architecture Internships are thirty weeks in duration and begin during January of each year.

Before joining their sponsors, interns have completed seven semesters of design studio; architectural history and theory; site planning; structures, construction and environmental systems courses; introduction to planning, and other required and elective professional courses. Upon completion of the architecture Internship period with the sponsor, students return to the Department of Architecture to fulfill the program requirements and to undertake the final year of study to complete the professional degree.

Internship sponsors include professional firms, government agencies, and other building industry organizations engaged in design and planning.

Students are expected to seek the sponsorship of organizations with which they have not worked, in locations in which they have not lived. When a student has secured an invitation from a potential sponsor for full-time
employment offering a variety of substantive experience under the supervision of senior members of the organization, the Department of Architecture approves the Architecture Internship position. The student intern and the sponsoring organization negotiate the financial terms under which the intern is engaged. Adherence to applicable wage and employment laws and regulations is expected.

While participating in Architecture Internship, each student submits three sets of Journals and Sponsor Profiles to the Department of Architecture. Each submission is evaluated and written suggestions for improvement are sent to the intern. Every returned intern exhibits selected products ofhis/her work [as well as that of the sponsoring organization] in the Internship show, and prepares an extensive paper analyzing the internship experience.

Upon satisfactorily completing all of the Architecture Internship requirements, the student is awarded 14 credit hours toward the Bachelor or Master of Architecture degree. Each sponsor is invited to complete an evaluation of its intern and of the Architecture Internship. Sponsors are invited to celebrate with interns at the Internship Show reception during the Fall Semester following the internship.

Advertise your internship position(s) with our students and faculty internship coordinator by Posting a CAPD Student Internship Opening.

For more information, please contact:
Wendy Ornelas, FAIA
Architecture Internship Director
785.532.5950