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Participating in experiences like internships, undergraduate research, study abroad, and student employment can help your personal and career development. Experiential learning opportunities can help you:

test out a potential career path
learn more about the work tasks and work environments that you prefer
apply your learning from coursework
grow your career readiness competencies
build relationships
make yourself highly marketable for future opportunities

This site defines experiential learning and provides you actionable next steps to find an experiential learning opportunity. We prioritize highlighting ways you can obtain paid experiential learning opportunities.

What is Experiential Learning (EL)?

Experiential learning (EL) is a process of learning by engaging and reflecting on meaningful experiences in and outside of the classroom. Students practice and expand course-based knowledge, strengthen their career readiness competencies like critical thinking, clarify their personal values, connect and contribute to communities beyond the university, and engage in reflection and metacognitive work. EL can help students find their “why” by understanding how academic learning is informed by the natural and social world.

EL occurs in a wide variety of settings across all disciplines. Some common forms of EL include internships, undergraduate research, service learning, field study, project-based learning, student employment, and study abroad.