Summer Internship Program

Frequently Asked Questions

The ideal FLAME student is the product of rigorous training processes and brings a wide range of talents and temperaments to any organization. The structures of learning at FLAME blend concepts in business, communication, design, computer science, and data science with the soft skills and ethical compass that the liberal arts help inculcate. At different stages of their coursework, students work on projects that demand critical thinking, creative work, social outreach, and the entrepreneurial spirit. The profusion of major-minor combinations available to students helps them bring an interdisciplinary mindset to real-world problems. Summer internships are an excellent way to recruit such talent for the future.

Liberal arts graduates adapt well to uncertainty. In dynamic and unpredictable times, they can exhibit flexibility and open-mindedness. This is the result of exposure to a wide spectrum of skills and ideas across diverse systems of thought. The liberal arts teach us to be lifelong learners, look beyond partitions of knowledge, work with ambiguity, and find the balance of humility and self-confidence that is unique to each situation. The concept of the liberal arts is growing in India; in the West, corporate firms, NGOs, and government branches have always hired liberal arts graduates—offering jobs and internship positions—for their long-term value.

The SIP (Summer Internship Program) is scheduled for the period between the start of May and mid-July. Undergraduate students must submit their final report in the prescribed format by July 16th; postgraduate students must do the same by July 22nd. All students must obtain a Completion Certificate from the organization at which they interned. Presentations and vivas take place virtually in the first week of August and are facilitated by faculty advisors.

The SIP provides a platform for students to integrate classroom knowledge with the challenges of work in a professional ecosystem. Further, it affords students exposure to the brass tacks of operations in institutional settings. The dovetailing of the SIP with the academic journeys of students enhances their intellectual maturity, work ethic, and all-round development. The SIP thus helps integrate the academic side of university life with the varieties of real-world exposure that the industry can offer them.

These have varied greatly. To name a few roles, our interns have served as Junior Creative Director, Social Media/Content Writer, Copywriter, Production Analyst, and Marketing Analyst. They have worked in functions such as Account Management, Client Relations, Digital Marketing, Public Relations, Sales, and Operations. The industries have ranged from Financial Services, FMCG, Healthcare, Consulting, and Tourism and Hospitality to Government, NGOs, think tanks, startups, and research institutions. In many cases, students find internships that are relevant to their major-minor combinations; however, they are also free to look beyond their specializations for projects and organizations that speak to their career interests or that are meaningful to them in other ways.

Summer Internship Program

As the SIP is the first experiential step on the career path, FLAME University places immense emphasis on the preparatory process. Ab initio, students are briefed about the important role the Summer Internship Program plays in their academic curriculum and its ultimate purpose.

Progressively through the academic year, the Career Services Office (CSO) in coordination with the faculty led SIP Committee, organises active preparatory training talks and workshops to help create a heightened awareness among them about career opportunities and the part that a successful SIP plays.

Through "town hall" style meetings with the batches as a whole, inviting guest speakers from different industry segments to discuss career planning and preparation, resume and statement of purpose writing, soft skills and confi dence building sessions with internal and external trainers, as well as mentoring students on a one-on-one basis, are some of the interventions applied. The FLAME faculty plays an important part in more focused SIP preparation with students in their respective areas of specialisation. Our Alumni too have been proactively been reaching out to students with opportunities.

ABOUT FLAME University

Spread over 70 acres of green expanse, FLAME University stands tall in the heart of Pune.

FLAME has changed the way our students learn by going beyond the classroom and into the real world, providing them with an educational experience where they can choose their own unique career paths. Rooted in the Indian tradition and rising as a pioneer of Liberal Education in India, we create thinkers and doers who question the status-quo and challenge themselves. We aim to construct knowledge ecologies that liberate students' minds from traditional thinking, allow them to reach their full potential, and lead them on a path of self-discovery.

We push our students out of their comfort zones and into the realities of the world, to help them thrive in their element. We believe that each students’ creativity, imagination, and passion are truly extraordinary and that needs to be recognized. By welcoming creativity, self-discovery, and innovation, we shape careers, minds, and life in a truly symbiotic and collaborative environment.