The Daniels School of Business at Purdue University champions hands-on learning and seeks to provide students valuable internship and job opportunities within the school. These roles, most of them paid, offer outside-the-classroom experience that builds upon coursework and adds essential skills to your skill set.
Current Daniels School of Business students: Find information below on academic opportunities, including positions as teaching assistants (TA), graders, and research assistants, and administrative employment opportunities.
Teaching assistants help with various classroom duties including providing review sessions, proctoring exams, assisting with office hours, and more. Graders assist the instructor of record with grading. Research assistants are typically paired with a faculty member and help with any number of research tasks, including gathering and working with data, translating hypotheses into testable models, and creating compelling tables and figures.
Please fill out the application form and send it, along with your resume, to managementta@purdue.edu. Additionally, please explicitly indicate the courses you are interested in applying for.
Teaching assistants and grader positions at the Daniels School of Business are paid on an hourly basis. There is no tuition waiver associated with these positions.
Most jobs will be posted on this webpage one semester ahead. If a job is filled, it will be noted on this webpage. You can apply any time a job is available.
Please email any questions to managementta@purdue.edu.
Each semester, our Economics Department hires a limited number of undergraduate students for Undergraduate Teaching Assistantships (UGTAs).
UGTAs are assigned to introductory and upper-division Economics courses offered by the Department of Economics (West Lafayette campus) with greater than 30 students. UGTAs assist with various classroom duties such as grading, assisting with office hours, providing review sessions, proctoring exams and other duties to assist the instructor. Expectation of work is up to 10 hours/week.
Check back for information on applying for fall 2024 positions.
Fall UGTAs with faculty approval will receive priority placement in spring. Since classes change each semester, if a UGTA position is not available for the same course/instructor, the UGTA will be placed with another class/instructor as long as one is available.
Applications are not final until an UNOFFICIAL transcript is received. Please send your unofficial transcript to Mary Schultz at schultm@purdue.edu.
Unassigned applicants who meet all the UGTA qualifications will have their application kept on file and will be contacted if there are additional openings.
Questions can be directed to Mary Schultz, Executive Assistant of the Economics Department, at schultm@purdue.edu.
The Daniels School's Purdue University Research Center in Economics (PURCE) hires a small group of Undergraduate Research Assistantship (UGRA) positions.
UGRA positions are paid and provide selected participants the opportunity to work in an engaging, supportive, and interactive learning environment. UGRAs will master the fundamentals of research design, as well as how to manage and analyze quantitative data with the UGRA mentor while simultaneously assisting faculty members with ongoing policy-related research tasks such as:
A commitment of 10 work hours per week is expected for these UGRA paid positions. Work hours will include attending mandatory weekly in-person UGRA lunch meetings (lunch will be provided), and communicating regularly with the UGRA mentor on individual project progress. Due to the interactive nature of this program, in-person participation is required and UGRA program participants must be enrolled in on-campus courses at Purdue’s West Lafayette campus.
The PURCE UGRA application for the 2024-2025 academic school year will go live on June 1 and close on June 30. Check back here for the application link. Purdue undergraduates who have completed ECON 360 (Econometrics) are invited to apply, and preference will be given to students who have had Undergraduate Teaching Assistantship (UGTA) experience within the Daniels School's Economics department.
Reach out to purce@purdue.edu.
The business school's Vernon Smith Experimental Economics Laboratory (VSEEL) provides research opportunities and experiences for undergraduate Purdue students. Assist with research in the experimental economics lab to gain valuable skills and insight into how modern economics and management experiments are run.
These are volunteer positions.
To learn more, visit VSEEL's Opportunities page.
Please fill out the application form and send it, along with your resume, to managementta@purdue.edu.
This position is paid on an hourly basis.
Most jobs will be posted on this webpage one semester ahead. If a job is filled, it will be noted on this webpage. You can apply any time a job is available.
Please email any questions to managementta@purdue.edu.
Please fill out the application form and send it, along with your resume, to managementta@purdue.edu. Additionally, please explicitly indicate the courses you are interested in applying for.
Teaching assistants and grader positions at the Daniels School of Business are paid on an hourly basis. There is no tuition waiver associated with these positions.
Most jobs will be posted on this webpage one semester ahead. If a job is filled, it will be noted on this webpage. You can apply any time a job is available.
Please email any questions to managementta@purdue.edu.
Please fill out the application form and send it, along with your resume, to managementta@purdue.edu. Additionally, please explicitly indicate the courses you are interested in applying for.
Teaching assistants and grader positions at the Daniels School of Business are paid on an hourly basis. There is no tuition waiver associated with these positions.
Most jobs will be posted on this webpage one semester ahead. If a job is filled, it will be noted on this webpage. You can apply any time a job is available.
Please email any questions to managementta@purdue.edu.
Please fill out the application form and send it, along with your resume, to managementta@purdue.edu. Additionally, please explicitly indicate the courses you are interested in applying for.
Teaching assistants and grader positions at the Daniels School of Business are paid on an hourly basis. There is no tuition waiver associated with these positions.
Most jobs will be posted on this webpage one semester ahead. If a job is filled, it will be noted on this webpage. You can apply any time a job is available.
Please email any questions to managementta@purdue.edu.
Please fill out the application form and send it, along with your resume, to managementta@purdue.edu. Additionally, please explicitly indicate the courses you are interested in applying for.
Teaching assistants and grader positions at the Daniels School of Business are paid on an hourly basis. There is no tuition waiver associated with these positions.
Most jobs will be posted on this webpage one semester ahead. If a job is filled, it will be noted on this webpage. You can apply any time a job is available.
Please email any questions to managementta@purdue.edu.
Please contact Dr. Yanjun Li directly at li14@purdue.edu.
Please fill out the application form and send it, along with your resume, to managementta@purdue.edu. Additionally, please explicitly indicate the courses you are interested in applying for.
Teaching assistants and grader positions at the Daniels School of Business are paid on an hourly basis. There is no tuition waiver associated with these positions.
Most jobs will be posted on this webpage one semester ahead. If a job is filled, it will be noted on this webpage. You can apply any time a job is available.
Please email any questions to managementta@purdue.edu.
Please fill out the application form and send it, along with your resume, to managementta@purdue.edu. Additionally, please explicitly indicate the courses you are interested in applying for.
Teaching assistants and grader positions at the Daniels School of Business are paid on an hourly basis. There is no tuition waiver associated with these positions.
Most jobs will be posted on this webpage one semester ahead. If a job is filled, it will be noted on this webpage. You can apply any time a job is available.
Please email any questions to managementta@purdue.edu.
Please fill out the application form and send it, along with your resume, to managementta@purdue.edu. Additionally, please explicitly indicate the courses you are interested in applying for.
Teaching assistants and grader positions at the Daniels School of Business are paid on an hourly basis. There is no tuition waiver associated with these positions.
Most jobs will be posted on this webpage one semester ahead. If a job is filled, it will be noted on this webpage. You can apply any time a job is available.
Please email any questions to managementta@purdue.edu.
The Daniels School's Marketing and Communications team employs talented Purdue undergraduate and master's students who want real-world experience in graphic design, event planning and execution, website development, social media strategy, writing and editing, marketing and communications planning, and much more.
There are currently no open internship positions, but please check back soon.
The Daniels School's Vernon Smith Experimental Economics Laboratory (VSEEL) seeks programmers who are interested in building websites that consist of simple interactive games.
You can work on particular projects that suit your skill set and your availability. Most projects involve Python — we use the Otree framework (similar to Django). All projects use Javascript (Jquery), CSS (Bootstrap), and HTML. On rare occasion PHP, SQL, and UNIX/Linux experience is useful.
This job will give you exposure on how social scientists employ experimental methodology for scientific discovery. These methodological skills can be used in a variety of business or scientific applications. For example, such experimental methodology can be used to test a particular business marketing plan, a specific theory in social psychology, or some facet of the rationality of investors.
The ideal candidate will be experienced with the above technologies. We seek someone who is highly motivated and able to solve problems independently. The preferred candidate will have an interest in experimental economics, human behavior, psychology, or adjacent fields, although this is not necessary.
Please summarize your interest (a short paragraph should suffice).
Then, in a list format, enumerate your experience with each of these technologies (you are not expected to have experience with them all):
Find the application here. Please include a resume or CV.
Questions? Contact Mary Schultz, executive assistant in the economics department, at schultm@purdue.edu.
Undergraduates from across campus can participate in economics and management experiments run by the Daniels School's Vernon Smith Experimental Economics Laboratory (VSEEL).
Cash earnings are paid at the end of each session.
Learn more by visiting the VSEEL site and clicking "PARTICIPATE."
