No. Our students take on a project with your company at no cost to you at any point.

We only ask that you dedicate some management time to the interns. They’ll most likely meet with you twice a week at minimum: once at the beginning to set out the plan for the week, and once at the end to give you a progress update and discuss any changes.

Most companies meet with the interns more than twice a week, though - it all depends on the demands of your project brief. If the interns perform well, please do give them a letter of recommendation at the end of the project period! This will go a long way in boosting their efforts when they join the recruitment scene after graduating.

We generally assign students to groups of 3-5 per project brief. Keep in mind that an internship company can certainly have more than one brief on the go - which, of course, would mean hosting more than one group of interns.

We’re perfectly happy with that, as long as there’s sufficient management capacity on your side to ensure that they get the information they need. Many of our partner companies in the past have taken multiple groups of interns across several disciplines in the same program.

Absolutely! Several of our partner companies have made permanent offers to our students in the past. We have no hand in that process, though - recruitment is at your discretion, and does not involve any process or influence from our side.

In all of our programs, the students will still return to the classroom environment during the internship period regularly. This allows them to ask their Head Teachers and TAs for support, clarify any concepts that they haven’t yet grasped, and get guidance on professional conduct.

In most of our programs, we also include (on top of their course) additional workshops on how to be an effective remote worker, how to present with impact, what the workplace of today and tomorrow will look like, and how to engage with work in a professional manner.

We’ll work with you in our introductory session to explain the learning outcomes of our courses and how we can align a project with your business’ needs. See our program pages to get an idea of what kinds of courses we teach - every internship project must be aligned with one of the courses.

We scope out a project brief in collaboration with you to ensure that there’s little to no scope creep once the internship period starts. Be creative, though - the sky's the limit!

iX Summer runs between May and August each year, with two identical six-week programs. In those six weeks, the first two are purely class, and the next four are then the internship period. As such, the interns will be available for four weeks in each of the two cohorts - so depending on the scope of work to be done, a bigger project can be split into two halves of four weeks each.

Our students come from universities all over the world - many of them some of the world’s best, including Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Yale, Oxford, the University of Virginia and many more. They’re mostly undergraduates from diverse backgrounds, and the diversity is ever-increasing - particularly with our focus on improving accessibility and affordability for students from all walks of life.