SOM Year One

SOM Year One program picks up where your formal education leaves off, with a suite of events and creative initiatives to help you get the most out of your first year at SOM. Alongside your day-to-day project responsibilities, we’ll encourage you to expand your learning and to propose bold ideas for the future of design.


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Gensler NCR Summer Internships

Gensler is in search of bright, dynamic and innovative designers; individuals who leverage their unique point of view to redefine what is possible through the power of design. We invite you to explore how you can make your mark at Gensler within the global network of team members, clients and communities in which we work. Students will collaborate as a regional team across all four offices to research and synthesize impactful ideas around an emerging topic within the profession.

Submission deadline: Varies
Winner announcement: Varies
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RODE Architects seeks Intern Designer

RODE Architects is a collaborative, innovative design firm in Boston’s South End. The firm is seeking a full-time intern designer to join the team in the design of institutional, commercial, residential and multi-family buildings from design through construction.

Submission deadline: Until position is filled
Winner announcement: TBD
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Shepley Bulfinch Design Fellowship

Our Fellowship gives a promising architecture student the opportunity to spend ten weeks this summer immersed in real design problems and collaborative solutions in one of our design studios. Past Fellows have come from architecture schools throughout the country and a number have gone on to join our architectural staff.  The 2018 Fellowship offered a $8,000 stipend, with a $3000 honorarium on its successful completion. It is open to all students who are, at date of submission, enrolled in an NAAB-accredited B.Arch. or M.Arch. degree program.

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RAMSA Travel Fellowship

Prize: $10,000 fellowship

Goal: seeks to promote investigations into the perpetuation of tradition through invention and is awarded to an individual for the purpose of travel and research.
Eligibility: Students in their penultimate year of a graduate-level professional or post-professional degree program

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Tile Contractors’ Association of America Architecture Scholarship

Since 2001, the Tile Contractors’ Association of America (TCAA) has had the honor of awarding annual merit scholarships to outstanding architectural students. TCAA is committed to rewarding high achieving students who will lead their industry, shape the language of design, and create new ways to give shape to their vision for public and private space as art for habitation. Beginning in 2016 the scholarship has been expanded to include qualified students pursuing professional degrees in Interior Design or Interior Architecture.

Eligibility for architecture students:

Applicants must be enrolled and working toward a professional degree in architecture and for the current academic year must be:

  • In the third or fourth year of a five-year program that results in a BArch or equivalent
  • In the fourth or fifth year of a six-year program (4+2 or other combination) that results in an MArch or equivalent; OR
  • In the first, second or third year of a three- to four-year program which results in a MArch within the architecture discipline. The majority of credit courses must be earned in a campus environment.

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