Career Services
Charting your career path? Finding your first internship or job? Developing your professional skills? Check, check, and check. We’re here to help. We work one-on-one with Spiders to help you navigate your individual path to success.
"Best Schools for Internships"
(Private Schools)
—The Princeton Review
(2024)
"Best Career Services"
—The Princeton Review
(2025)
The Richmond Guarantee
Every undergraduate student is eligible to receive a fellowship of up to $5,000 for an unpaid (or underpaid) summer internship or faculty-mentored research project. That means you can skip the “what if…?” contingency planning and get to the fun part.
Class of 2021: Employers Sampling
- AlphaSights
- Altria
- Amazon
- Anti-Defamation League
- Avascent
- Bain
- Barclays
- Berkeley Research Group
- Bloomberg
- Bon Secours Mercy Health
- Booz Allen Hamilton
- CarMax
- Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU
- Citi
- Deloitte
- Dominion Energy
- EY
- Fox Searchlight Pictures
- Genworth
- Goldman Sachs
- Guidepoint
- Harris Williams
- IFundWomen
- Jefferies
- Johnson & Johnson
- JP Morgan
- KCIC
- KPMG
- Lockheed Martin
- Mass General Brigham
- McKinsey & Company
- Medicines for All Institute, VCU
- Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Miami Dolphins
- Microsoft
- Monument Consulting
- National Health Corps
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS)
- PwC
- Southern Living Magazine
- Spider Management
- Teach for America
- US Department of the Treasury
- US News & World Report
- US House of Representatives
- US State Department
- Washington Wizards
- Wells Fargo
of our recent class participated in an internship during their time at Richmond
of our recent class participated in research with faculty during their time at Richmond
of our recent graduates seeking employment upon graduation were employed within one year
Class of 2021: Graduate Schools Sampling
- American University
- Boston University
- Brown University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Duke University
- Georgetown University
- Harvard University
- Johns Hopkins University
- Michigan State University
- New York University
- Northwestern University
- Oxford University
- University of California Berkeley
- University of Cambridge
- University of Chicago
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Virginia
- Vanderbilt University
- Wake Forest University
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Yale University
Fellowships
A national leader in academic fellows and scholarships — and a top producer of Fulbright students and scholars — the University of Richmond connects Spiders to resources and experiences that go well beyond the classroom. These often come through a fellowship or scholarship, providing opportunities for national and international study, research, and service.