Employer Resources

Employers benefit by opportunities to recruit, guide, and evaluate upcoming talent as well as invest in the organization's success.

Students benefit by opportunities to gain valuable applied experience and make connections in professional fields.

Employers benefit by opportunities to recruit, guide, and evaluate upcoming talent as well as invest in the organization's success.

• A cost-effective method to meet both immediate and long-range human resource needs.
• Opportunity to evaluate potential career employees.
• Students can perform well on some professional=level assignments, thus freeing career employees for more advanced responsibilities.
• Decreases turnover of graduates in career positions.
• Co-op arrangements are ideal for technology transfer.
• Workforce diversity.
• Fosters on-going, productive relations with Midwestern State University.

Students benefit by opportunities to gain valuable applied experience and make connections in professional fields.

• Provides an opportunity to test classroom learning in a real world environment.
• Develops professional skills including presentation, writing, and technical skills.
• Enables students to see a more direct relationship between a college major and full-time employment while they integrate work experience with their classroom knowledge.
• Provides a means of earning money to cover a portion of college expenses.
• Improves after-graduation employment (or graduate school) prospects by providing the student with transferable, relevant work experience.
• Starting salaries for graduates with internship experience are consistently higher than students that graduate without an internship.
• Interns are able to participate in their field of study with professionals in a work environment on a day-to-day basis.

• MSU Texas offers internship registration options for students in several undergraduate and graduate majors. Students must work between 120 and 150 hours to receive 3 credits and may receive a maximum of 6-12 hours in internship credit, depending on the major.
• Since   Fall 2021, MSU Texas students have received   1,918 course credits  of internships which represents   more than 230,000 hours  of workforce-based educational experience in businesses, community organizations, educational groups, government agencies, and healthcare facilities.
• The table below shows the areas where students may receive academic credit toward their degrees. The programs in bold, where ug is undergraduate and gr is graduate, require an internship for graduation.

First, contact the MSU Texas Career Management Center (CMC) at (940) 397-4473 or by email at cmc@msutexas.edu. The CMC will assist with:

1. Building your company profile in Handshake — the most widely used job platform for college students and used by MSU Texas.
2. Building your internship posting.
3. Soliciting applications from the MSU Texas student body through social platforms, emails, etc.
4. If your company is interested in the internship being offered for academic credit - which we highly recommend - the CMC will connect you with the appropriate MSU Texas academic department to guide you through the academic credit process.

MSU Texas student interns have received academic credit from experiences that have shown them how to apply their educational experiences in a real-world setting. Recent internships by MSU Texas students include:

• Legislative intern for Texas District 3 Congressman Keith Self
• Biomedical informatics at National Institutes of Health
• Computer science internship at Electronic Transaction Consultants
• Accounting internships at Freemon, Shapard & Story
• Solutions Architecture intern for Ellucian