Spend your summer in rural North Carolina with a full-time, paid internship.
The CALS Rural Works! Internship Program at NC State University is an experiential learning program designed to engage undergraduate students in paid summer internships with employers in rural North Carolina.
Benefits to Students
- Paid summer internship with competitive compensation: $5,000 stipend from CALS + salary from business
- Pre-internship training and post-internship career coaching
- Exposure to meaningful work and opportunity to apply academic learning in real-world settings
- Deeper understanding of rural life, issues and opportunities
CALS Rural Works! Employers
- Located in a North Carolina Tier 1 or Tier 2 county
- Small business
- Provide a meaningful, paid full-time work experience in agriculture or life sciences for 10 weeks in Summer 2026.
CALS Rural Works! Internship Opportunities Summer 2026
View internship positions and apply.
Contact cals-ruralworks@ncsu.edu for more information.