Master internship
Kickstart your career
Internships supervised by the Operations Research and Logistics (ORL) group prepare students for a career in e.g. the management of supply chains, operations analytics and logistics development. Supervised by one of our specialists and a person from the host institution, our students work on one (or several) project(s) that require both academic level training and attitude and prepare for a kickstart on the labour market.
Check our offer
Our chair group collaborates with a variety of interesting companies in our field. Please find our current student projects offer with our partners via our Brightspace page 'ORL Thesis & Internship'.
Let's talk
Are you interested in exploring an internship supervised by ORL? Our internship coordinator welcomes you for an intake to discuss your preferences with respect to your internship. If you fill out this intake form, the coordinator will contact you for an appointment.
Please check the study handbook to see whether you meet all requirements for starting an MSc internship with us. If in doubt, do not hesitate to contact education.orl@wur.nl.
FAQ
When should I start looking for an internship?
What is an academic internship?
The internship provides an opportunity to work outside WU at a host organisation, e.g. a company (consultancy firm, industry), a public institution, a research organisation, another university, or a non-governmental organisation.
The tasks you complete have to be of a sufficiently high standard to reflect the desired level of recent Wageningen graduates. You could, for example, work on a research project, a policy document, a communication plan, an evaluation report, a design, or education materials, to name a few.
Where can I find necessary information on the internship?
What are the criteria for an academic internship?
Professional or research internship: what's the difference?
What is expected in terms of deliverables?
You will work on one or more tasks/projects provided by the internship provider. You will have a position equal to a junior employee at an academic level. You can work on tasks leading to one main deliverable or on tasks leading to several deliverables. It is also possible that you contribute to joint deliverables in which the individual contributions are not clearly demarcated.
Research internships are completed with a ‘research report’. Professional internships are completed with a ‘context report’ (and deliverables of projects that have been part of your internship). In both cases, the reports are accompanied by reflection reports.