Internship opportunities

Doing an internship during your master programme, can not only deepen your knowledge of the work field, but will also give you more knowledge about you as a professional and which next step you like to take after studying. In all MSc programmes at our Faculty, you have the option to add the extra curricular Master Internship course to your programme for 15 ECTs.

As a Bsc IB student, you have the opportunity to either do a 30 ECTS internship or a study abroad semester in your third year. In the internship, you will focus on three main pillars: academic skills & attitude, professional competencies & development, and professional orientation. Together with the relevant experience on the workfloor, this will equip you to both know more about the labour market, and about yourself as a professional. You will be able to make better decisions towards a master programme, or towards your first job!

Please know that a selection procedure applies for this minor as we can facilitate a maximum of 30 students per semester. We organize an information session about this minor typically in Oct/Nov in your second year: please keep an eye on the announcements in your IB Brightspace community, and attend the info session to increase your chances of being selected - and of course know what you are applying for!

Per academic year 2026-2027, Bedrijfskunde students can do a 30 credit internship as their third year minor. Because no other courses are part of this minor, and all the sessions of the minor itself are offered online, you can do your internship anywhere you like! While applying your knowledge and skills to your internship tasks, you will also work on assignments / be coached on three main pillars: Academic Skills & Attitude, Professional Competencies & Development and Professional Orientation. 

This complete package will help you know the labout market better, know yourself better and develop yourself as a professional, and in the end you will be better able to make good decisions towards your future, either towards a MSc or your next steps into the labour market.

Please know that a selection procedure applies for this minor as we can facilitate a maximum of 30 students per semester. We organize an information session about this minor in your second year: please keep an eye on the announcements in your Bedrijfskunde Brightspace community, and attend the info session to increase your chances of being selected - and of course know what you are applying for!

Per academic year 2026-2027, BSc E&BE students can do an internship within their Internship for E&BE minor, and therefore as part of their curriculum. Doing an internship is not only a perfect way to get to know the labour market better, you will also build professional skills, know yourself better as a professional, and will therefore be better able to make decisions towards your MSc or your next steps on the labour market!

The Internship for E&BE course leads to 15 ECTS, and to complete the minor, you need to choose three course from the general E&BE minor. The internship will be done fulltime in block 1A, the courses in 1B. Another option is to spread your internship over the whole semester, either parttime or fulltime, and do the three courses in 1A or 1B. This would have some practical implications though, for instance not being able to go abroad for your internship.

Please know that a selection procedure applies for this minor. We organize an information session about this minor in your second year: please keep an eye on the announcements in your E&BE Brightspace community, and attend the info session to increase your chances of being selected - and of course know what you are applying for!

Depending on the aim of your final-year research, it might be interesting to combine your research project with an internship. Students will be appointed one supervisor from the faculty and one supervisor from the host institution.

Please check with your programme whether combining an internship with writing your thesis is allowed, and if so, which rules and deadlines apply.

In case your programme does not offer an internship course, and you still want to do an internship, you could consider doing an internship without University involvement and thus without earning ECTs for it*. This has some advantages and disadvantages, which are listed below.

Advantages

• Timing is flexible: you do not need to meet any University deadlines or perform your internship within a semester;
• No reports need to be delivered;
• No mandatory meetings;
• No criteria: you can pick whatever internship you are interested in.
  

Disadvantages

• Your internship does not have University's acknowledgement which can serve as a 'quality stamp' for future employers to estimate the value of your work experience;
• University will not co-sign internship agreements for voluntary internships*;
• You miss out on internship offers which require University involvement**;
• You miss out on guidance, workshops, interactive sessions with your 'intern colleagues', which are offered in FEB's internship courses;
• You miss out on the structure of course goals, criteria and assessment of and feedback on your internship.

If after reading this, you decide you want to do an internship within a University course instead of a voluntary one, please know that every FEB Master Programme (except for ReMa) offers the opportunity to incorporate a Master Internship in your programme. Doing an internship within your Master also has the advantage of being able to already apply some more specialized knowledge to the working field, which is advantagous for your career preparation as well as your CV!

*Please note: when you are a student from a non-EU country, you ALWAYS need University to be involved when you do an internship in the Netherlands, because of government rules. This means you can only do an internship when the internship is approved in one of the internship courses FEB offers, which means you have to be aware of the deadlines for these courses and have your proposal approved in time. University of Groningen does NOT sign internship agreements for voluntary internships (meaning: not credit bearing).
** In the Netherlands, it is perfectly legal for companies to hire an intern (from an EU country) without University involvement, but some companies still prefer University to be involved.