Internships and career opportunities
Full-time career opportunities
The variety of industries interested in SBIO students are very broad. It includes numerous business sectors including design, business, marketing, engineering, and material-based manufacturing industries. Numerous career fairs throughout each school year offer SBIO students the opportunity to network with companies who are looking for interns and employees.
We help our students to find jobs through close collaboration with the College of Natural Resources and Environment and other colleges, such as Pamplin College of Business and the College of Engineering, which are recognized as hosting some of best career fairs in the country by evaluations from recruiters who attend.
Most SBIO department students receive job offers prior to graduation. This percentage increases when students participate in career fairs.
Check out the links below for more information regarding VT's regular job fairs and additional websites that are used by industry members to hire SBIO department graduates.
Internships and Co-ops
summer interns
For our degrees, internships or co-ops are not required. But, we strongly encourage our students to apply for and participate in internships or co-ops before graduation. For the last few years, most of our current students have participated in summer internships, or semester-long co-ops, during their junior and/or senior years. Many students graduate with job offers from the companies at which they interned during college.