Welcome to the STEM Career Community!
Here you will find career-related information for all SNHU STEM majors, including Computer Science, IT, Environmental Science/Geoscience, Data Analytics, Cybersecurity, Mathematics, & Game Development/Design. Start exploring below and discover where your STEM degree can take you!
Start Here: STEM Careers By Major
Launch Your Career: Find STEM Jobs & Internships
Build In-Demand Skills: Explore Tech Certifications
Gain Hands-On Experience In Your Field
- Check out the How Students Can Gain Hands-on Relevant Experience Guide!
- Check out our available “How to Gain Experience to Land the Job you Want” video!
- Review our “Reframing The Narrative Guide”. This workbook helps career changers and job seekers identify and showcase transferable skills from any role.
- Idealist
- Volunteer.gov
- VolunteerMatch
- CatchAFire
- CitizenScience.gov
- Top Virtual Volunteer Opportunities
- Gamers Outreach
- International Game Developers Association Volunteers
- Games For Love
- American Red Cross – Charity Streaming
- Cyber Safety & Education Volunteers
- Cyber Volunteer Resource Center
- GitHub – Open source STEM projects looking for volunteers
- pyOpenSci
- Statistics Without Borders
- SNHU & Forage Job Simulations – Open to all majors. View the “Gain Experience” section on any Career 360 community page!
- SNHU LinkedIn Learning: “A Standalone Project” which allows you take on self-led and self-paced project-based courses—spanning AI, data science, data analytics, cybersecurity, and more. Search “standalone project”.
- SNHU Career 360 Internship Page
Other options:
- Coursera: Research guided projects to practice your tech skills
- Virtual Internships
- NASA Science Citizen Science Projects
- GitHub – Open source projects looking for volunteers
- UpForGrabs – Open source STEM projects
- FirstTimersOnly – Open source projects for coding newbies
- CodeTriage – Open source projects & open issues sent directly to your inbox
- CitizenScience.gov Catalog
- SciStarter – Project finder in the sciences
- Parkey Dewey Micro-Internships
- Search job board sites like SNHU Handshake or Indeed for “Temporary, Part-time” opportunities
- US Dept of Labor – Seasonal Opportunities
- Federal Internship Portal
- ApprenticeshipUSA
- SNHU experiential learning courses are short-term educational professional development or training experience opportunity that allows students to explore professional development; certification preparation and/or professional practice experiences, completing a minimum of 60 hours in that experience:
- STEM undergraduate students and STEM graduate students have a handful of unique academic courses available for you explore while earning your degree!
- Be sure to talk with your academic advisor about these courses and how to register!
- Pathwaystoscience.org for STEM – Fellowships & scholarships
- Public Service Jobs Directory – Search for “fellowships”
- ProFellow
- AMA Fellowship Database
- Employers with Dedicated Early Career Programs
- SNHU has compiled a short list of early career development and leadership rotational programs with nationwide organizations
- The U.S. National Science Foundation Research Experiences
- Scholarship America – STEM
- Scholarship.com – STEM
Hear From Alumni: STEM Careers in Action
Watch our current “Day in the Life” video series of SNHU STEM graduates in their workplace. Learn how each has progressed in their career so far, and things you can do to prepare yourself!
Mastering The Technical Interview
Turn interview nerves into confidence & master every stage of the technical interview. Watch our recent video series!
- Cracking the Coding Interview: Cracking the Coding Interview, 6th Edition is here to help you through this process, teaching you what you need to know and enabling you to perform at your very best. *NOTE- Purchase of book is required.
- interviewing.io: Practice interviewing with engineers from Facebook, Google, and more anonymously!
- HackerRank Interview Preparation Kit: Includes interview tips, advice, and practice challenges.
- LeetCode: Explore and review top technical interview questions.
- SNHU SkillsFirst: Practice different interview styles including behavioral based interviews.
- freeCodeCamp: Non-profit organization that consists of an interactive learning web platform, an online community forum, chat rooms and more!
- Udemy: Search “coding interview” then click Filter->Price->Free
- Interview Cake: Courses to help you prepare to “win” the programming interview “game”!
- W3Schools: Course to help you learn to code
- LinkedIn Learning Classes:
