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<p>Not that I know of. In our area housing is dirt-cheap, which is why my son’s summertime employer provides it. If he was in NYC, Chicago, SF, etc., I’m sure they wouldn’t be springing for housing.</p>
<p>Both of our son’s OOS internships have included housing stipends. The stipends have not covered the real cost of housing in the cities where he has worked, but they have helped a lot! And the pay rates have, IMO, been quite generous on top of that.</p>
<p>Our son’s internship included housing and the housing and food allowances are apparently non-taxable.</p>
<p>I’m sure it depends on the field of study and the depth of the employer’s pockets. My exposure to this subject is only in science and engineering, and I’ve seen several students have their housing paid for and/or receive stipends because they are working on generously-funded research projects that include budgets for such things.</p>
<p>On the other hand, the internships that I know of in fields with a glut of applicants, or in densely populated areas with an abundance of students seeking internships, seem less likely to offer such benefits. My son has a few friends whose primary interest is business, whose internships seem to be unpaid stints as glorified copy-machine operators and coffee-fetchers. (Not quite that bad, but you get the idea.)</p>
<p>Really, BCEagle? I’m pretty sure that the housing stipends were included in DS’s W2s.</p>
<p>S1 is paying for a sublet in a grad dorm at MIT. It was cheaper than undergrad housing and the dates were more flexible. He’s lucky the prof was able to offer a generous hourly rate (at least compared to work-study type jobs). We stocked him up with some staples when we moved him in, which should keep his grocery bill down – not that he eats much anyway. He knows he needs to have saved enough to cover his personal expenses/books for the coming year, interest payments on his Stafford, and taxes on his earnings.</p>
<p>He is VERY excited and thankful to have this opportunity.</p>
<p>My engineering D is in her second summer internship with our local aerospace corp. Both summers she’s been given meaningful tasks with attentive and friendly mentors and she feels like she’s accomplishing a lot. She gets great pay (and no living expenses - yay). There are no other interns in her area tho, and that is socially isolating. </p>
<p>She also co-oped during the spring semester at a different company. It was a different culture but she enjoyed that too. (when I reminded her not to forget to go back to school and graduate, she said don’t worry, I still prefer school to working).</p>
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<p>I just checked the email from the university. The stipend is taxable and they withhold taxes. They do not withhold taxes on travel, food and housing.</p>
<p>The withholding really doesn’t matter as he will get it back when he files his tax returns.</p>
<p>I’m interning at the local public defender’s office. I’ve sat in on two CLE classes already, gone to court multiple times, written a sentencing report (not filed yet), drafted some simpler court documents, interviewed clients in jail, interviewed clients inside and outside of court, met a couple judges, sat in on a pretrial conference, talked to a judge in chambers, went hunting for 10 year old case files (found them at courthouse), met some very good lawyers (on the defense AND prosecution side), and now know a dozen sections of the California Penal Code by heart.</p>
<p>All in all, a fruitful experience. Wouldn’t be a stretch to say it’s more valuable than interning at Biglaw in Manhattan, as far as undergrad law internships go.</p>
<p>My son’s internship includes housing & food (not sure how they’re paying for food) and a commuter pass to get to and from work plus a monthly salary of 100,000 Japanese Yen which I believe works out to about US$1000. a month.</p>