Consulting Analyst Winter Break Internship
Note: although the description below is for our summer 2024 program, we are currently receiving applications for the winter break 2024-2025 edition of the program (a one week program in mid-December 2024); you may apply for this winter program on this same job description.
(Beacon is a program of Atlantis, which runs summer programs for students in several distinct fields, including healthcare, law, business, and management consulting).
The Beacon Fellowship is a 1-6 week program where students gain business experience in a new city (international experience in the case of some of our programs), and also gain hands-on consulting experience for an elite brand, while being mentored by a Project Lead with experience from a top consulting firm (McKinsey, Bain, or BCG). The opportunity below is for a full merit sponsorship to participate in a 1-3 week program in summer 2024.
Who is this for? This is for undergraduates (OR those that have graduated college in the last 2 years) in US or Canadian universities that are very interested in management consulting, or are very interested in obtaining international business experience.
What’s a Beacon program?
- Learning full-time from an elite, top tier consultant Project Leader
- 1-6 weeks, full-time, during the summer
- Alumni have gone on to receive full-time and internship offers from all MBB firms (McKinsey, Bain, BCG), as well as from all Big Four firms
- Housing, some meals, insurance, excursions, etc. are included
- An experience that helps you signal to firms that you know what consulting is and that you are very interested in it
- Participants often do another internship in the same summer, before or after Beacon
Why is Beacon impactful?
- Beacon alumni frequently receive internship & full-time job offers from top firms like Bain, McKinsey, BCG, PwC, Deloitte, Booz Allen Hamilton, EY, Accenture, L.E.K., & KPMG.
- With experience from Beacon on their resumes, they show firms their consulting ability and interest.
- Additionally, Beacon alumni report progress on the Consulting Core Competencies.
Example of a program: Beacon Madrid (Spain) Airbus Project: Beacon has partnered with Airbus for several years, including programs in 2019, 2022, and 2023. Airbus is the largest airplane manufacturer in the world. The project lead will guide participants through the entire project, coordinate client interactions, and provide participants with personal insights into the life of a top-tier consultant. You can read more here about the Airbus Project in Madrid, Spain. (If applying via Handshake, please ignore the fees listed, as recipients of this opportunity will receive a full merit scholarship).
Full Merit Scholarship: Beacon is normally a program students pay for that combines an amazing consulting experience with a trip to an exciting city. However, this opportunity is for a full merit scholarship and only offered to particularly talented students who exclusively apply via Handshake.
Dates: 1-3 week program during Summer 2024 that works with the scholarship recipients' schedules.
How To Apply: Stage 1: Submit your application via Handshake. An initial selection of possible scholarship recipients will be announced sometime after the deadline closes. Stage 2: Those in the final selection group will have additional application steps to take in order to be considered for the full merit scholarship.