When do Goldman Sachs internships open?

Figures as of October 5, 2026, computed from the Internvest tracker and question bank when this page was built; the counts move as openings are added and closed.

Goldman Sachs does not open its internships on one day. It posts each region, division and office as an opening of its own, and each one keeps its own calendar, so "when do Goldman Sachs internships open?" has several answers at once. This post gives you the ones the data can back: what Goldman posts and where, when the large banks as a group put up their US summer internships in the last cycle, what that means for the next one, and what to have ready before the posting you want goes up.

What does Goldman Sachs post?

The tracker holds 96 Goldman Sachs openings: 50 off-cycle internships, 35 summer internships, 8 full-time roles and 3 insight events. By region they are 28 in Asia, 26 in Europe, 20 in the UK, 16 in the US and 6 in the Middle East. By recruiting cycle they are 9 for 2026, 86 for 2027 and 1 for 2028, and by path most of them sit in investment banking (34), sales and trading (28), asset management (15) and corporate finance (13).

Two things in those counts should change how you search.

First, most of Goldman's openings are not in the US: 80 of the 96 are elsewhere, and 50 of the 80 are off-cycle internships, the semester and six-month placements that are common in Europe and Asia. If you study in the US and want a US summer seat, the openings that matter to you are a small slice of the firm's list, and a search that returns the whole list will bury them. Off-cycle internships, explained covers the other slice, which suits some students better than a summer.

Second, Goldman posts by office and by team. Its US summer internships on the tracker, 12 of them, include a firmwide summer analyst opening and separate postings for single cities and divisions, and seven of them are summer associate roles for MBA students, which run on the business-school calendar instead of yours. Read a posting's title before you decide it is the one for you, and check the class year it asks for.

The full list, by name, is on the Goldman Sachs openings page, and the investment banking openings page lists the rest of the path by firm.

When do the large banks open their summer internships?

Goldman's US summer analyst internship belongs to a wave. The bulge-bracket banks and the elite boutiques recruit the same students for the same summer, so they post in the same months, and the best guide to when Goldman's next postings go up is when that whole group posted in the last cycle.

The tracker holds 55 dated undergraduate US summer internships for 2027 at 24 bulge-bracket and elite-boutique banks, Goldman Sachs among them. The median went up in August 2026, and the middle half ran from December 2025 to September 2026. By February 1, 2026, 24 of the 55 had gone up: fewer than half of the group's dated postings were up by then, in the middle of the applicants' sophomore year. Another 30 went up from July 1, 2026 on, which is why a student who missed the winter should keep looking through the summer.

Keep the mapping in your head. A summer 2027 internship is the one between junior and senior year, so the people applying are mostly the class of 2028, and they were sophomores when that wave began. The 2027 summer analyst timeline shows the whole cycle month by month, and the recruiting timeline by path puts banking beside the other nine paths.

When will the summer 2028 internships open?

If you are a sophomore this fall, you are the class of 2029, and the internship you are recruiting for is summer 2028. Nobody can tell you that date in advance, but the last cycle gives a fair guess: if 2028 keeps 2027's shape, the middle half of the large banks' postings would run from December 2026 to September 2027.

The next cycle has already started at some of them. The tracker holds 19 undergraduate summer 2028 internships at the large banks, at four firms, so early postings for your class are a fact this fall, not a rumor. Treat the winter as the start of your search, not the middle of it, and get your resume and your first answers ready before the holidays rather than after them.

Is it the same outside the US?

Roughly, on the tracker's dates, but check each region on its own. The tracker holds 140 dated undergraduate summer internships for 2027 outside the US at the same group of banks, with a median of September 2026, one month after the US median. One bank that posts many offices in one month can still move that median, so check your own region.

If you are applying in more than one region, keep two calendars, one per region, and do not assume that a posting you saw for New York means the London one is up too, or the other way round. Goldman's off-cycle roles outside the US follow a third rhythm again, because they start in different months of the year.

When do Goldman Sachs applications close?

Most students search for the opening date. The closing date is the one that costs offers. Goldman's own careers pages, as the firm page's "How Goldman Sachs hires" section sets them out, say that applications are evaluated throughout the recruiting season, so you may hear back on different roles at different times. When applications are read through the season rather than all at once after a deadline, applying in the first days a posting is up means yours is read while every seat in the class is still open.

So the practical answer to "when do Goldman Sachs internships open?" is: before you would like them to. Each of Goldman's openings on the tracker carries its own recorded dates and countdown, and an alert rule on Goldman Sachs fires in the app when one of its openings opens, when its deadline nears and if the firm takes it down. You can set one from the Goldman Sachs openings page.

What happens after you apply?

Goldman's prepare page says that if your application is selected, you will be invited to a recorded video interview of about 30 minutes, and that the final round is a Superday, a series of interviews with people you could work with (Goldman Sachs prepare page, as Internvest read it on September 28, 2026). Prepare for both before you apply, not after the invitation arrives.

For the interviews themselves, Internvest's interview intel maps 14 interview questions to Goldman Sachs, by round and group: HireVue 2, First Round 6 and Superday 6. They are written for the Internvest question bank and mapped to the firm, and the Goldman Sachs interview questions page shows one in full without an account. The round-by-round guide shows how the rest are organized, and how to prepare for a Superday covers the final round in detail.

What should you do before the posting goes up?

The students who apply in the first days are the ones who prepared before the posting existed. Three things take longer than people expect:

1. Your resume. One page, every line a result, reviewed by someone who works in finance. It takes weeks of drafts, not an evening.
2. Your story. "Walk me through your resume" and "why Goldman Sachs?" in under two minutes each, said out loud until they sound like you. For the video round, record yourself once and watch it back.
3. Your technical basics. The three statements, the main valuation methods and a simple merger or buyout, at the level a sophomore or junior is expected to know them.

If you are a sophomore, add the early steps. Goldman runs insight events for students before the internship cycle, and the tracker holds three of them in the US, listed by name on the firm page. The sophomore guide for 2027 covers what else your class can apply to this year, and the sophomores page lists the openings that take the class of 2029.

What to do this week.

• Open the Goldman Sachs openings page, pick the openings that match your class year, region and division, and set the alert there.
• Put the next cycle's likely window in your calendar, December 2026 to September 2027, with a reminder a month before it to finish your resume.
• Apply to the large banks as a group, not to one: they post in the same months. Compare J.P. Morgan and Morgan Stanley on their openings pages.
• Record a two-minute answer to "tell me about yourself" on video and watch it once.
• See how an opening's status and dates read on the free example at Is it open?

The deadlines page lists the tracked openings on all ten paths by firm, and the class-year pages sort them by the year you graduate.