IBM offers a number of summer internship programs open to students at all levels of their academic career, with some exceptions in specific programs. It also facilitates a co-op program in which students take on a 20-hour work week instead of or in tandem with a part-time school semester. The internships all focus on consulting with various niches, like cybersecurity or analytics. The co-op program focuses on product marketing.

IBM is simply a major figure. As a global company, its reach is expansive, and its team stretches across countries. Students intrigued by the prospect of joining not just a team, but a worldwide network of passionate scientists, inventors, and other experts should consider applying to one of IBM’s many student internship programs. Depending on the internship, students of all academic levels, starting with undergraduate students who have completed at least one year, are invited to apply. Certa...

IBM is one of the world’s most well-known and most influential computing and technology companies. It began as the Computing, Tabulating, and Recording Company, or C-T-R. As its first major project, C-T-R designed and distributed tabulating equipment “for the tabulation and analysis of the 1890 United States Census,” and it didn’t stop there with creating some majorly important technology for governments and institutions all over the world. In 1956, IBM created what we may consider today to b...

2026 Vault Rankings

• “Working on software development initiatives within a production product, as part of my team's larger move to modernize our product. I've done a full-stack proof of concept for a feature my team is considering adopting, done frontend work to update the look of the user interface in collaboration with an international design team, and prototyped an LLM RAG-based AI agent to address customer feedback regarding the ease of use of our product. Most of the time, my manager trusts me to organize my own ...

• “The hiring process was smooth and very well-organized. I had all my interviews within a span of a week and got my offer letter exactly seven days after first contact! It was amazing! Lots of companies drop the ball, don't email on time, delay the process... but IBM was so on top of it, I was impressed, and knew that working here would be like that too. And I was not wrong!”
• “The interview went really well. My interviewer was very professional and asked questions that were directly...