Current Student Opportunities

Information will be posted below on various opportunities that are available for our current Information Systems students.

If you have a listing you would like to include on this page, please contact Dwayne Butcher, dbutcher@umbc.edu.

Assistantship Opportunities for Graduate Students can be found on the graduate webpage.


The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is hiring fall interns
Undergraduate and Graduate Student Paid Opportunities

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Paid Fall Internship Opportunities:

The position is located on GAO’S Office of Information Systems and Technology Services (ISTS) team that provides the agency’s technology support. ISTS promotes the effective and efficient design and operation of all major information resources management processes. This team also identifies and addresses challenges and risks to the agency’s IT systems. The internship application will close on Friday, July 26, 2024. Below are links to the applications:

GAO IT Undergraduate Internship application

GAO IT Graduate Internship application

Specific duties include:

  • Support IT investment analysis and decision making in support of business priorities.
  • Obtain an understanding of the GAO IT governance process to capture changes to the technology architecture.
  • Perform duties associated with technology data analysis, maintenance, and publication of roadmaps.
  • Solicit and collaborate with stakeholders for updates to the strategic initiatives sequencing plan.
  • Capture, analyze, and report quantitative measures.
  • Attend and collaborate in Enterprise Architecture meetings.
  • Execute self-study and professional research related to enterprise architecture standards and new technology related to the IT Strategy and/or GAO business requests.

If students have any questions, contact Leslie.

Leslie McNamara
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Analyst, Health Care
McNamaraL@gao.gov
202-512-6269

Undergraduate Research Opportunity

Undergraduate student research opportunity

Are you interested in writing Python code? Summarizing research papers? Proof-reading? Doing statistics? Dr. Michael Brown leads an informal research team and has several unpaid openings for undergraduate students. There may be an opportunity to receive independent study credit. Email Dr. Brown, michaelb@umbc.edu, if you’re interested in learning more about the positions.