The following are organizations with which NRES students have interned in the past. There are many more programs, businesses, and organizations available for internships than those listed here, and you can use these career resources to help you find others.
- Brookfield Zoo
- Champaign County Forest Preserve District
- Chicago Botanic Garden
- College of ACES Dixon Springs Internship
- Forest Preserve District of Will County
- GaiaTech
- Illinois Department of Natural Resources
- Illinois Natural History Survey (students worked with individual scientists)
- Illinois State Water Survey (students worked with individual scientists)
- Indiana Dunes Environmental Learning Center
- Invasive Plant Control, Inc.
- National Great Rivers Research and Education Center
- Natural Resources Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture
- Park District of Highland Park
- Possibility Place Nursery
- Smithsonian Institution
- Student Conservation Association
- Tallgrass Restoration
- Terracon
- U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- Urbana Park District
- V3 Companies