If you think all the fun only happens in summer, think again! As an NBCUniversal Academic Year intern, you’ll get immersed in exciting work, experience our unique NBCU culture, and feel the real support and guidance for 2 whole semesters. The NBCUniversal Internship Program allows students to unlock their potential by contributing to big projects in meaningful ways that matter. To thrive as an NBCU intern, you are ready to bring your passion for media, entertainment, and technology along with your desire to learn each day.  In addition to our internships being paid, we will also offer the following for our Academic Year interns: Paid time off for mental health, school exams, and personal holidays. Robust networking, learning and development opportunities. Complimentary Peacock subscription during your internship. Free admission to Universal Parks to use during your internship.  At our Universal City office interns will have access to the NBCUCommutes program, which provides fully subsidized transit passes to full-time lower lot employees, good for unlimited rides on all Metro bus and rail, such as the Metro Red Line.  Academic Year Recruitment Timeline:  April 21 – May 9: Applications Open (may close early due to applicant volume)  Early May – Mid June: First round video interviews  Mid June – Mid July: Second round interviews  Throughout July: Selected candidates receive offers    Academic Year Internship Program: Applications Close: May 9th at 11:59pm ET. Pro Tip: Submit your application as soon as possible – applications could close earlier due to applicant volume!  Program Dates: September 15, 2025 – April 17, 2026 Time Commitment: 16-24 hours per week. Exact schedule to be determined based on business need. We will do our best to accommodate course schedules. Format: Opportunities listed will require an intern to work from Universal City, CA.  To Apply: Submit a one-page resume that outlines your work experience, accomplishments, and your graduation month and year. Submit a cover letter that highlights your passion for NBCUniversal, the locations (listed below) you are open to for internships, and your top areas of interest (opportunities listed below). Upload a transcript (unofficial transcripts are fine) that confirms your status as an actively enrolled student in a degree-granting program. 
 The Entertainment Group develops and schedules the network’s primetime, late-night, and daytime entertainment programming. NBC’s quality programs and balanced line-up have earned the network critical acclaim, numerous awards and ratings success, including most recently winning the traditional September-to-May season in primetime’s key demo, marking the network’s third win in four years. NBC has earned more Emmy Awards than any network in television history.   Universal Studio Group (USG) encompasses NBCUniversal’s television production studios: Universal Television (UTV), Universal Content Productions (UCP), NBCUniversal International Studio, and Universal Television Alternative Studio (UTAS). USG produces over 100 scripted and unscripted series across multiple countries around the globe for buyers in broadcast, cable, and streaming. Network partners include NBC, Peacock, Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Apple, HBO, BBC, ITV, Channel 4, CTV, ABC, FOX, and ABC among many others.   Areas of placement may include, but are not limited to: 
  Entertainment Communications- Unscripted: Support communications efforts by maintaining and updating press lists, preparing for press junkets, monitoring press breaks and compiling clip packets, researching media outlets & contacts, and compiling coverage reports, draft tune-ins, assist with press releases and various writing assignments/research projects Entertainment Communications- Scripted: The scripted comms team supports PR efforts for all scripted series across NBCU broadcast and cable TV networks. While every day will be different, the scripted comms intern can expect to work with team members across both coasts and on a variety of series. Opportunities include (but are not limited to) helping track big stories surrounding series, research journalists, publications and trends, garner experience in PR-centric writing, attend team and series meetings, and more Live Events & Specials: Research and share knowledge of current events and trends in the pop culture zeitgeist as they relate to organizational objectives for the team, assist Live Events team with show lead-up materials, day of event needs, and post-show recaps, including collecting content links, competitive outlet research, screen recordings, etc, assist with administrative tasks and projects as needed. This is an exciting opportunity for anyone interested in learning more about live events and the hard-work it takes to put a show together behind the scenes  NBC Marketing & Brand Strategy: The Marketing and Brand Strategy team communicates with all departments to build strategies and marketing campaigns for NBC Entertainment primetime and late-night programming, in addition to leading promotional activations. The marketing intern will support the brand team throughout these processes, partake in weekly trainings, attend meetings and assist in daily tasks to understand brand’s role throughout a show’s lifecycle  Social Marketing- Bravo: Intern will Identify moments from our series in advance of airing to be clipped for social use, monitor social sentiment on behalf of the networks, write and edit compelling social media copy and schedule content to be dispersed through Bravo social media  USG Marketing & Awards: Ideating and producing social media content for studio and brand handles, supporting the awards team through research, asset management, and administrative duties, updating and tracking department documents for overall campaign timelines, reading scripts and summarizing for brand guidelines, brainstorming and presenting ideas (e.g., campaign opportunities, social media initiatives, marketing creative, etc., and more  USG Publicity & Corporate Communications: Intern will support the team across series publicity, talent relations and corporate communications initiatives. Duties include, but are not limited to brainstorming and presenting ideas for talent relations/gifting, editorial and press opportunities, speaking engagements, etc., assisting publicists during in-person press opportunities (shoots, junkets, interviews, etc.), compiling comprehensive coverage reports for senior executives and flag breaking news, researching media outlets/contacts and maintaining the team’s master contact data base, auditing critical team documents and reviewing releases/external announcements, and more  E! News Social & Strategy (SpinCo): Create lifestyle and shoppable social videos, posts and stories for E! Insider, E! News and Kards Katch Up TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Threads and YouTube Shorts, source and repost influencer and celebrity posts, Reels and TikToks related to fashion, beauty, wellness, fitness, travel, home, and relevant pop culture topics, write both assigned and self-pitched commerce articles to correspond with influencer collabs, fashion, beauty, wellness, fitness, travel, home and relevant pop culture topics