The higher education climate in the United States has become extremely competitive, as institutions struggle to recruit and retain students, while offering quality educational programming and demonstrating successful placements of their graduates. Although career preparation is just one aspect of a post-secondary education, it is one that cannot be ignored by program administrators or professors as it is certainly on the minds of students and their families. Recent surveys of employers note that they highly value applied learning experiences (Hart Research Associates, 2015), suggesting that academic departments need to better prepare their students for life outside of the classroom by creating a bridge between academics and the work world beyond. One way in which many departments have done this is through the establishment of internship opportunities with area businesses or community organizations. Although internship programming is extremely popular and may even be mandatory in certain professional degree programs, this type of programming has historically been less common in language departments, which are typically housed in colleges of arts and sciences. However, as language departments begin to add more professional components to their degree programs, they have also begun to offer more internship programming. For example, in their 2011 survey of language for specific programs in the United States, Long and Uscinski (2012) found that of the 189 programs surveyed, 51% stated that they arranged internships within the United States for their students. Thus, there are already numerous language programs in the United States that have established internship programming for their second language (L2) students. However, language teaching professionals interested in establishing new internship programming may have a difficult time finding information on these programs, as very few publications have detailed their development or administration. This chapter aims to fill that gap by presenting information on current L2 internship programs, defining internship programming and formats, offering steps for the establishment of internships with local business and community organizations and discussing the evaluation of internship experiences from the students', the employer's and the professor's perspectives.