Best internship websites for college students

Search for internship websites and you get long lists of job boards. For tech internships the useful question is narrower: which sites show you a role early, and where do you end up applying. We counted where every open tech internship on the tracker behind Arial's board sends you to apply, then looked at what each popular site is for.

What we measured

We took the SimplifyJobs internship tracker's November 8, 2026 file, the feed behind Arial's job board, which links each role to the employer's own posting, and sorted every open, visible posting by the application system its link opens: 5,379 open tech internships at 1,347 companies, in software, AI, machine learning and data, hardware, product, and quant. For comparison we did the same for the 17,557 internships the tracker added between January 1 and November 8, 2026. The descriptions of the other sites below are their own, read from their websites and app store listings on November 9, 2026. (SimplifyJobs internship tracker, November 8, 2026 file, and the job pages of its open postings on Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, and Workday, with the Greenhouse and Ashby application forms, read that day)

Where tech internships are actually posted

Workday is the site you will apply on most: it hosted 1,912 open internships, more than a third, at 417 companies, and nearly half of everything the tracker added this year. The next biggest group is companies that run their own careers site, led by TikTok with 238 open internships, Meta with 104, ByteDance with 103, Tesla with 91, and Amazon with 55. Some company sites, such as Waymo's and Stripe's, run Greenhouse behind their own page, and we count those as Greenhouse. Greenhouse and Ashby together hosted 1,266 open internships at 491 companies, and Greenhouse alone carried 37 percent of open quant internships. None of the tracker's links sent you to LinkedIn, Indeed, or Handshake; it links to the employer's own posting by design. (SimplifyJobs internship tracker, November 8, 2026 file, and the job pages of its open postings on Greenhouse, Ashby, Lever, and Workday, with the Greenhouse and Ashby application forms, read that day)

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The best internship websites, and what each is for

Each of these sites does a different job. Here is each one in its own words, what it costs students, and where you end up applying. (SimplifyJobs/Summer2027-Internships on GitHub, read November 9, 2026; Handshake, About, read November 9, 2026; Handshake, Terms of Service, last updated July 22, 2025; LinkedIn, About, read November 9, 2026; LinkedIn Help, Apply for jobs on LinkedIn; Indeed Help, About jobs on Indeed: what you need to know; Simplify, home page and FAQ, read November 9, 2026; Simplify, Copilot, read November 8, 2026; Wellfound, About, read November 9, 2026; RippleMatch, jobs and internships, read November 9, 2026; WayUp, home page, read November 9, 2026; Built In knowledge base, Setting up Easy Apply with Greenhouse)

• The SimplifyJobs GitHub list: "Summer 2027 software engineering, data science, AI, quant, product management, and hardware internship postings. Updated daily by Simplify and Pitt CSC." Free, with 48,355 stars on GitHub, and nearly every apply link opens the employer's own application. It is the feed behind Arial's job board.
• Handshake: "the career network for the AI economy", where employers post to students directly. Free, and its terms let students at schools that do not partner with it sign up with a .edu email. You apply through Handshake on postings it hosts.
• LinkedIn: "the world's largest professional network". Free to search and apply, with a paid Premium. Depending on the employer, you apply with Easy Apply on LinkedIn or are "routed to that company's website or job board".
• Indeed: a general job site, free to search and apply. Some employers post on Indeed, and other listings come from employers' own websites and send you to the employer's application system.
• Simplify: "your AI job search partner", which indexes postings from "50+ job boards and company career pages". The core is free, its Copilot extension fills in repeated questions on the employer's own form, and paid Autopilot plans submit applications for you.
• Wellfound, formerly AngelList Talent: "the talent marketplace and AI recruiting platform for startups". Free for candidates, and you apply on Wellfound.
• RippleMatch: "RippleMatch uses AI to help you land your dream job or internship". Free, and you apply on RippleMatch for its partner employers' roles.
• WayUp: "The career platform for US college students & recent grads." Free, and you apply on WayUp when a listing takes applications there.
• Built In: job listings from its member employers. No candidate fee; you usually apply on the employer's careers page, unless the employer has turned on Built In's Easy Apply.

How to use them together

• Check one list that is updated daily, the SimplifyJobs list or Arial's board, every day or two during recruiting season.
• Use Handshake for employers that recruit at your school, and keep your LinkedIn profile current for large companies and recruiters.
• Check Wellfound for startups, and the careers sites of large companies that run their own, such as TikTok, Meta, and Tesla.
• Expect to make a Workday account for many employers: more than a third of open internships apply there.

On Arial, the board and the application are one step. The job board lists internship and new grad postings from the SimplifyJobs trackers as they appear, and when you tap Apply on a job hosted on Workday, Greenhouse, Ashby, Oracle, or Indeed, the agent fills in the employer's form from your resume and profile and submits it. Arial's Apply recognized 60 percent of the open internships in this count as postings on those systems; for the rest, Arial drafts your answers to paste into the employer's form.

The best internship website is the one that shows you a role while it is still open and gets your application in. Most of the tech internships on the tracker end on Workday or the company's own site, so pick a source that is updated daily and spend your time applying.