Entrepreneurship
Looking for a way to take your skills and gifts in innovation to the next level? Chicago Semester’s entrepreneurship track gives you access to some of the city’s most exciting start-ups, where you can build your network and create opportunities. With access to mentors, professors and colleagues who share your passion for creativity and innovation, you’ll gain the knowledge, experience and confidence to turn your ideas into action.
FYI
1871, Chicago’s Center for Technology and Entrepreneurship, is home to almost 500 start-ups. Come find your place in this hub through Chicago Semester.
Internship Placement Process
- Submit your program application, references, resume, transcript and essay responses to Chicago Semester.
- We review your materials, work with you collaboratively to create a polished resume ready for professional review and send these to potential internship sites.
- You interview with potential internship sites and prioritize which opportunity is the best fit for you.
- You will be officially accepted into the Summer Program when you receive an internship offer.
Questions?

Ask Hannah Kiefer,
our Coordinator of Internship Placements & Alumni Engagement
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Hear from an Entrepreneurship Alumnus
"Through this internship, I was able to not only confirm the love I have for law, but also identify where along the diverse practices of law does my love lie. Thus, I know for a fact, civil law will be part of my future… You will not have another internship experience like the one you will have at the Chicago Semester program. There will be no other instance where you will have a class that is dedicated to helping you interpret your internship experience as the Professional Seminar does, and I believe that is the most valuable aspect of it all."
– Matthew Meyrick
‘18, Music Production / Communication Arts – Media Studies, Internship at mwseq
Professional Seminars and Courses
Professional Seminar (Interdisciplinary) - Fall, Spring and Summer
Social Entrepreneurship - Summer only
Diversity and Inequality: Engaging Chicago Cross Culturally - Fall, Spring and Summer
Urban Planning, Development and the Sustainable City - Spring and Summer
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