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Student Jobs and Internships

Students and professor at the Soap Factory

Work-Study

Many different part-time jobs are available on campus to help offset educational expenses and gain work experience. Work-study positions are posted throughout the semester. Students typically work five to ten hours per week. To be hired, you must have work-study included on your financial aid letter.

DesignWorks

DesignWorks is the college’s in-house design studio where MCAD’s ads, brochures, catalogs, signage, posters, videos, and much more are produced. At DesignWorks student designers and photographers have the opportunity to work part-time on projects with the support of a full-time professional staff. Students get the competitive edge they need to be successful after college by learning about process, print production, and real-world problem solving.

Internships

An internship is an academic learning opportunity where you work under the mentorship of an experienced professional on an assigned project in your chosen industry. Real-world work experience allows you to earn credits while enhancing your skills, networking, and building your resume.

“The most rewarding part of this experience was feeling like I was growing and learning so much in a short time. I valued learning about packaging on a deeper level, finding effective ways to create mood boards, speaking about a brand, and relaying brand ideas to people in other departments.”

Beta DeFlorian ’21, Graphic Design Intern at Target

“This internship helped me really hone my studio photography skills and more fully understand how photographers manipulate light for commercial uses, which I think was a weakness previously of mine.”

Kam Darby ’20, Photography Intern at Minneapolis Institute of Arts (Mia)

MCAD Students Have Interned at:

  • Target Corporation
  • Best Buy Corporation
  • The Walker Art Center
  • CRASH+SUES
  • Science Museum of Minnesota
  • The Brand Lab
  • MAKE
  • Foci Minnesota Center for Glass Arts
  • MSP Film Society
  • Soo Visual Arts Center
  • Minnesota Children's Museum
  • Minnesota Historical Society
  • Minnesota Center for Book Arts
  • Street Factory Media
  • Hybrid Medical Animation
  • Makwa Studio

Programs that Require Internships:

  • All other Bachelor of Fine Arts programs: Internship optional
  • Bachelor of Science in Creative Entrepreneurship: 2 Internships (6 credits) required; additional two internships are optional

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The Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) acknowledges it is located on traditional, ancestral, and contemporary lands of Indigenous people. This is the ancestral homeland of the Dakota and Ojibwe people, who were forcibly exiled from the land because of aggressive and persistent settler colonialism. We recognize that this place has a complex and layered history. As a community dedicated to creativity, MCAD is committed to ongoing efforts to support and advocate for American Indian Nations and peoples.


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MCAD admits students of any race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, or marital status to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, or marital status in the administration of its educational policies, scholarship and loan programs, and other school-administered programs.