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Your Flightpath
to Success-

Opportunities that lead to
CPT and OPT

Hartwick is clear in our desire to help you land a curricular practical training (CPT) and optional practical training (OPT) opportunity and we know future employers seek graduates with real-world work experience and the ability to adapt easily. At Hartwick College, our balanced approach to education, supported by the unique FlightPath, equips students for fulfilling careers and balanced lives, including rewarding CPT and OPT opportunities.

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Through close collaboration with Guidance Teams—including a personal Career Coach—students define their strengths, build professional networks and access extensive career and internship experiences. This personalized framework prioritizes each student’s academic, physical, professional, and financial well-being, ensuring that Hartwick graduates are fully prepared for success.

YourFlightpath

Discover your strengths, learn essential skills and prepare for your career with FlightPath—your road map to a
well-balanced education.

Year

1

Get Started Here

  • Define your strengths and abilities

  • Get a head start on setting your FlightPath goals

  • Learn critical twenty-first century skills

  • Elevate your health and well-being

  • Create a guidance team network

Year

2

Plan for What’s Next

  • Launch your future with the career accelerator

  • Network and explore careers at Success Summit

  • Chart your academic course

  • Check in with your Success Coach during Junior Preview

  • Get guidance and support from alumni mentors and career coaches

Year

3

Build on What You’re Learning

  • Match interests with internships, research, clinical or student teaching opportunities

  • Gain career-ready work experience

  • Try new skills through summer opportunities

Year

4

Prepare for the Future

  • Reflect and prepare with capstone projects and experiences

  • Build a resume that showcases your abilities

  • Participate in mock interviews

  • Make connections through the robust Netwick network

International Internships
and Independent Study

Through a selection of fellowships and scholarships, we offer financial assistance to international students to travel abroad or in the US for an internship or independent study project. Hartwick students have taken advantage of experiences around the globe - from Ghana and Swaziland to Germany and San Francisco.

  • Find out about the Cyrus Mehri ’83 Fellowship here.

  • Find out about the Emerson Scholarship here.

  • Find out about the Duffy Scholarship here.

  • Find out about the Baker-Simpson Entrepreneurial Leadership program here.

  • Find out about the Silicon Valley Experience here.

Interning the world over.

From Chicago to Brussels and from New York City to Cape Town. Hartwick students secure opportunities around the country and around the globe.

Where they Intern:

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