Marketing Internship for Academic Credit

Gain real-world experience while you learn.

The Marketing Department Internship Course is an opportunity to earn upper-division marketing credit while learning about careers and gaining real-world experience in the workplace. This internship provides credit for learning, not credit simply for working. Each semester, a few students are accepted on the basis of their academic record at the University of Utah, successful completion of marketing courses, and their application.

Please note that as these are academic credits, tuition will be charged for the three course credits once you have been approved to be added to the course.

Prerequisites + Internship Requirements

Prerequisites

  • Must have upper-division status
  • Must be a Marketing Major, Marketing Major with the Professional Selling and Business Development Emphasis, or a Professional Selling and Business Development Minor
  • Principals of Marketing successfully completed (additional MKTG coursework preferred)
  • 3.3 overall or business GPA

Minimum Internship Requirements

  • The internship must involve new, university-level experience. Credit is given only for new learning and experiences that take place after officially beginning the internship and cannot be done retroactively (i.e. work you have already done).
  • You must be scheduled to work at least 15 hours per week for 14 weeks (or an equivalent amount of time for out-of-state internships), or 12 weeks in the summer.
  • Your internship must have close professional supervision in a firm that has established good marketing and sales practices.
  • Your internship should have direct relevance to your major and chosen career goals. The four distinct learning objectives reflect this as being specific, quantifiable, and marketing functions.
  • Out-of-state internships are assessed on a case-by-case basis.

Application Instructions

Part One

  • Acknowledgment Form
    • You will need to provide an Offer Letter for your internship.
    • You will need to sign part one of the Student Acknowledgement section.
  • Offer Letter
  • Learning Objectives
  •  Academic Audit
    • You will need to download your academic audit as a PDF file. Instructions to access the information can be found here.
  • Resume
    • You will need to provide a current copy of your resume in the application system. Please try to keep it to one page in Word or PDF format, preferably.

Part Two

  • Complete Application
    • Please apply for the MKTG 4880—Internship for Credit here. As part of the application process, you will be asked to upload all documents listed in Part One.

Part Three

  • Meet with Marketing Faculty Advisor
    • AFTER Part Two, schedule a one hour meeting with the Marketing Faculty Advisor, Paul Dowling, for final approval. Please email Paul.Dowling@Eccles.Utah.edu to request an in-person or Zoom meeting.