Last updated: October 2026
Deloitte's summer 2028 Tax internship window has closed. The postings went live on August 6, 2026 as a single requisition, code 361830, shared across more than 30 US offices, and it carried one stated cutoff of August 12, 2026. As of August 13 that requisition no longer appears in Deloitte's job search. Six days from open to close, about 22 months before those interns would have started. Here's the 2027–2028 cycle in plain words: for consulting, advisory, and GPS tracks, you apply during 2027 and you intern in summer 2028. If you're an accounting major, tax for summer 2028 is behind you. Audit & Assurance for that same summer has not posted yet and is still expected within weeks, and that is the one you can still catch.
Quick Facts
| Quick Fact | Deloitte Internship 2027–2028 |
|---|---|
| Where to apply | apply.deloitte.com job portal; program details on the official internships page. The summer 2028 tax requisition closed Aug 12, 2026. Set job alerts now so the Audit & Assurance posting reaches you the day it opens |
| Application window | OPEN NOW. 8 intern postings live: Summer 2027 Audit (2) + Tax Transfer Pricing (1), Winter 2027 Tax Accounting (1) + Audit (2), Summer/Winter 2028 Audit (2). Previously closed Tax 2028 requisition (code 361830) is separate from these live postings. One requisition (code 361830) covering 30+ US offices, posted Aug 6, 2026, stated cutoff Aug 12, 2026, no longer listed as of Aug 13. Audit & Assurance, summer 2028: not posted yet, still expected Aug–Sep 2026, and that is the live one to watch. Discovery recruiting for summer 2028 runs to ~May 1, 2027; consulting/advisory/GPS for summer 2028 expected Aug–Sep 2027 |
| Two-speed calendar | Audit & tax recruit ~22 months before the internship starts (sophomore fall); consulting, advisory & GPS run ~1 year out |
| Rolling or hard deadline? | Hard deadline, and a short one. The summer 2028 tax requisition carried a stated cutoff of Aug 12, 2026, six days after it posted, and it closed on that date. Inside the window review is fast; 2027-cycle applicants reported rejections within 3 days |
| Eligibility | GPA 3.0 min / 3.2 preferred (audit, tax, Discovery); 3.3 min for Consulting Summer Scholar; CPA-licensure plan required for audit & tax; limited immigration sponsorship |
| Duration | Discovery: 7 weeks (audit-profile posting); Client Service: ~8–10 weeks (typical, varies by service line); winter tax/audit cohorts exist |
| Compensation | The summer 2028 tax requisition published $25–$48/hr, unchanged from the 2027 range. Official 2027 ranges: audit $25.64–$51.44/hr, tax $25–$48/hr, Discovery $28–$32/hr; community reports ~$34–$41/hr for audit |
| Return offers | No official rate; community-reported ~90% for audit & tax, demand-dependent in other service lines |
| Locations | 100+ US offices; hired into a specific office, hybrid 2–3 days/week, audit travel up to 50% |
| Programs | 3 intern types (Discovery, Client Service, Internal Services) across Audit & Assurance, Tax, Consulting, Risk & Financial Advisory + GPS variants |
If you read one row, read the application window. The summer 2028 tax window opened August 6, 2026 and closed August 12, six days later. Audit & Assurance for that same summer has not posted yet, so that is where your job alerts should point. The row that trips people up next is the two-speed calendar: audit and tax recruit about 22 months before the internship starts, while consulting, advisory, and GPS run closer to a year out.
Externships are short, remote professional experience programs where you work on real projects with real companies. The Attronica FP&A and private-company valuation Externship builds the exact financial-statement skills Deloitte's audit and tax interns use, and the healthcare operations consulting Externship maps to the consulting track. Explore all Externships.
What Is a Deloitte Internship?
A Deloitte internship is a paid program at the world's largest professional services firm, where students work on client audits, tax analysis, consulting projects, and risk work across four US businesses: Audit & Assurance, Tax, Consulting, and Risk & Financial Advisory. Deloitte runs three intern program types: the Discovery Internship for freshmen and sophomores, the Client Service Internship for students in their penultimate year, and an Internal Services track.
The scale is hard to overstate. Deloitte posted $70.5 billion in FY2025 global revenue, making it the first professional services firm in history to cross $70 billion, with 470,000+ people serving nearly 90% of the Fortune Global 500. Employees rate the firm 3.8/5 on Glassdoor across roughly 150,000 reviews.
And the front door opens earlier than almost anyone expects. The official summer 2027 audit posting shows recruiting ended February 22, 2026, about 22 months before those interns ever badge in, and applicants who waited even days reported rejections within 3 days of the opening.
When Do Deloitte Internship Applications Open for 2027–2028?
Deloitte hasn't published a 2028 recruiting calendar, so the documented 2027 cycle is the best signal we have. It shows two calendars running side by side:
• Audit and tax (Client Service): summer 2027 applications opened around August 18, 2025, and the official posting shows recruiting ended February 22, 2026. For summer 2028, expect the window to open August–September 2026 and close by about February 2027 as seats fill. That's roughly 22 months before the internship starts: sophomore fall on a standard four-year track.
• Discovery Internship (freshmen and sophomores): summer 2027 recruiting ended May 1, 2026. For summer 2028, expect postings in fall and winter 2026–27 with recruiting ending around May 1, 2027.
• Consulting Summer Scholar, Risk & Financial Advisory, and GPS: these follow the Big 4 consulting pattern of opening August–September for the following summer, so expect summer 2028 postings around August–September 2027. Our consulting internships guide maps that wave across firms.
Could Deloitte shift the calendar for 2028? It's possible.
But both documented patterns point the same way, and the cost of assuming a later window falls entirely on accounting students: plan around a junior-year recruiting season and the audit and tax window for summer 2028 will already be closed. Our
Eight intern postings are live on apply.deloitte.com right now across both the 2027 and 2028 cycles. Summer 2027: Audit (Financial Statement Audit, Technology Controls Advisory), Tax (Transfer Pricing). Winter 2027: Tax (Accounting), Audit (Financial Statement Audit, Baruch Co-Op). Summer & Winter 2028: Audit (Financial Statement Audit). Apply immediately — Deloitte reviews rolling and pulls postings once seats fill.
Interview process for current openings: apply online, complete the assessment, then behavioral interviews. Deloitte’s process averages 3–4 weeks. Audit and tax tracks require CPA eligibility plans. More postings (Discovery, Consulting Summer Scholar, GPS) may open in this window.
Winter 2027 internships run January through April (busy season). Summer 2027 internships run roughly June through August (7 weeks for Discovery, 8–10 weeks for Client Service). Perform well: audit and tax return-offer rates are community-reported at 90%+.
Consulting Summer Scholar, Risk & Financial Advisory, and GPS applications for summer 2028 expected to open, rolling through fall 2027. These tracks run on a later calendar than audit and tax.
How to read this page: our dates come from tracking previous recruiting cycles and daily posting data. Treat them as informed estimates based on historical patterns, not confirmed dates. The company's official careers page is always the most current source. If a role is posted there, go by that, even if this page suggests the window hasn't opened yet.
Why the Tax Window Closed in Six Days
Deloitte's official pages describe the programs but never the review cadence, so the timing evidence comes from the requisitions themselves. The summer 2028 tax posting was a single requisition, code 361830, shared across more than 30 US offices, and it stated that recruiting for the role ends on 8/12/2026, six days after it went live. It closed on that date and no longer appears in Deloitte's job search. That is what an absolute cutoff looks like here: one date, applied to every office at once, with no late entry. The 2027 cycle behaved the same way from the other end: applicants reported rejections within 3 days of the August 2025 opening, and the summer 2027 tax requisitions still live in late July 2026 now return 404. Road to Offer's Discovery guide advises treating the listed deadline as a final cutoff, not a target, because late applicants face fewer remaining office and service-line seats. And MyConsultingOffer reports Big 4 firms interview candidates as applications arrive rather than waiting for a set date. Set job alerts on apply.deloitte.com, ask your campus career center for Deloitte's on-campus schedule, and submit the day you see a posting.
Which Deloitte Internship Programs Should You Target?
Deloitte's official internships page lists three intern program types (Discovery, Client Service, Internal Services), which spread across Audit & Assurance, Tax, Consulting, and Risk & Financial Advisory, plus Government & Public Services variants of each. Six tracks draw most of the applications:
| Program | Who it's for & focus | Duration | Posted pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery Internship | Freshmen & sophomores (graduation ~2 years out) across all four businesses; mentorship, training, client exposure; gateway to Client Service, not direct full-time | 7 weeks (audit-profile posting; varies by service line) | $28–$32/hr |
| Audit & Assurance Intern (Client Service) | Accounting majors on a CPA path, penultimate year; audit client financials with AI-enabled tools; travel up to 50% | ~8–10 weeks (typical) | $25.64–$51.44/hr |
| Tax Consultant Intern | Accounting or Taxation BS/MS on a CPA-eligibility path; research and client tax analysis; hybrid 2–3 days/week | ~8–10 weeks summer; winter cohorts exist | $25–$48/hr |
| Consulting Summer Scholar | Juniors with 3.3+ GPA in business or STEM majors; case interview in the process; highest intern pay ceiling | Summer | ~$32/hr (Levels.fyi; strategy-type roles higher, third-party estimate) |
| Risk & Financial Advisory Intern (incl. Cyber) | Cyber, CS, information systems, risk & engineering majors; tech-risk, cyber & controls work; GPS variants for government clients | Summer | Varies by posting |
| Internal Services Internship | Ops, finance & tech students; internal projects, non-client-facing | Summer | Varies by posting |
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And winter busy-season internships exist in tax and audit, an alternate entry point most students never consider.
What Are the Eligibility Requirements?
Straight from the official summer 2027 postings, which the 2028 cycle should mirror one year forward:
• GPA: cumulative 3.0 minimum, 3.2+ preferred, in the audit, tax, and Discovery postings. The Consulting Summer Scholar posting asked for a 3.3 minimum.
• Class year: Discovery targets students graduating about two years after the internship; Client Service internships land in your penultimate summer.
• CPA plan (audit and tax): postings require "definitive plans to meet minimum educational requirements for CPA licensure" in your office's state before starting full time. You don't need 150 credit hours to intern, but you need a credible plan for them, like a Master's in Accounting or a double major.
• Work authorization: "Limited immigration sponsorship may be available" on audit and tax; the consulting scholar posting required US work authorization outright.
• Location reality: you're hired into a specific office, co-locate 2–3 days a week, and audit interns face travel up to 50%. This isn't remote work.
Is the GPA a Hard Cutoff?
At the screening stage, treat 3.0 that way; the postings state it as a floor, not a preference.
So a 3.0 clears the screen, but the same postings list campus club leadership and community service as preferred qualifications, which tells you what breaks ties above the line. Applying the week a posting opens does more for a borderline file than any bullet-point polish.
Profile Match · Extern Data
Who Actually Gets In at Deloitte? Compare Your Profile
Based on 34 Deloitte Big 4 audit and tax interns from the classes of 2025 and 2026 (public LinkedIn profiles, aggregated). Six questions, under a minute.
Which summer are you applying for?
Recruiting timelines differ by class year, so we compare you with the right group.
Which group is your school closest to?
Firms recruit on campus in tiers. We match you against admits from schools like yours.
Is your major accounting?
Accounting is the credential the Big 4 screen for first; other business majors are less common.
How many internships, externships or research positions have you held so far?
Count anything with a real employer, mentor or principal investigator attached. Retail and food service do not count.
Has any of that experience been accounting-related?
Accounting, tax, audit or bookkeeping. A local CPA firm or a company finance department counts.
Are you in a Beta Alpha Psi, accounting society or business fraternity?
About a third of Big 4 admits were members before the offer.
Aggregated from public LinkedIn profiles of people who held the internship. No individual profile is shown. Read the full Big 4 intern profile analysis and the cross-industry study of 2,500+ intern profiles.
What Skills Does Deloitte Look For, and How Do You Build Them?
These come from Deloitte's own 2027 intern postings, not a generic listicle, and they cluster into three buckets.
Technical. Audit and tax want accounting coursework on a CPA path, and the audit posting highlights audit tools built on artificial intelligence and advanced analytics. Tax lists technology-related coursework as preferred. Risk & Financial Advisory recruits cyber, computer science, information systems, risk, and engineering majors.
Analytical. The audit posting promises you'll "sharpen your analytical skills as you audit client financials, transactions and internal control processes." Tax interns "analyze tax effects of complex client decisions" and turn findings into actionable solutions.
Soft. The tax posting names consultative skills and multi-client interaction; Discovery emphasizes networking plus technical and client service skills; audit prefers candidates with leadership history and prior work experience.
Where do you build that proof before sophomore fall?
What Deloitte looks for in interns
Skills across 7 Deloitte intern job descriptions (audit, tax, consulting, advisory) · 2026–27 cycle, projecting 2028
Method: full-text analysis of Deloitte intern JDs across all tracks. Audit and advisory postings share a competency block, so the top soft skills co-occur; named data tools (SQL, Tableau, Python) live mainly in the Technology JD, which was scraper-blocked, so they show as prose above rather than counted here.
Accounting intern postings · Sep vs Aug 2026
vs 362 in August
For Deloitte applicants: Accounting intern hiring picked up sharply in September; apply within the first week a role posts, while the most seats are open.
Daily US job-posting counts, Sep 1–30 vs Aug 1–31, 2026. Covers under half of US postings; shows direction, not market size. Pay = median of employer-published ranges only (83 postings in September, 44 in August).
Build These Skills Before You Apply
Each bucket maps to a remote Externship where you finish a real company project and walk into recruiting with portfolio evidence instead of promises.
| Skill Deloitte asks for | Where it appears in their postings | Remote Externship that builds it |
|---|---|---|
| Financial statement analysis & internal controls | Audit 2027 posting: "audit client financials, transactions and internal control processes" | Attronica FP&A & Private Company Valuation |
| Financial modeling & valuation judgment | Tax 2027 posting: "analyze tax effects of complex client decisions" and turn findings into solutions | Yinan Zhao Investing & Financial Modeling |
| Structured client problem-solving | Consulting Summer Scholar posting; interviewer-led case rounds on the consulting track | Healthcare Operations Consulting |
| Data & analytics fluency | Audit 2027 posting: audit tools built on AI & advanced analytics; RFA cyber & tech-risk tracks | Beats by Dre Data Analytics (Qual + Quant Insights) |
| Communication & consultative presence | Tax posting: consultative skills, multi-client interaction; Discovery: networking & client service skills | Every Externship above ends with a deliverable presented to the company |
The overlap is close to word for word: the financial-statement and valuation work in the Attronica project is the same muscle the audit posting describes, and the consulting Externship's operations deliverable is case-interview practice with a real client attached.
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Summer applications open in August or September the year before recruiting even feels real. Be on the lookout so you can apply the week they post.
Audit and tax interns are consistently in the 90% return-offer range. Every other service line is completely demand dependent.
How Do You Stand Out From Other Deloitte Applicants?
Deloitte doesn't publish an acceptance rate, so ignore the percentages floating around prep sites. What actually separates offers from rejections? Three moves, in order of impact:
Rolling behavior plus per-office seats means speed is the cheapest advantage available.
Yet most applicants still plan around a junior-year calendar that closed a year earlier for audit and tax.
2. Show proof, not potential. A sophomore resume line that says "built a valuation model for a real company and presented it" beats a list of course names, and you can build it before the window opens. Our guide to getting an internship with no experience walks through exactly this play.
3. Work the campus channel. Deloitte recruits through career fairs and campus events in parallel with the portal, and the postings themselves prefer club leadership and community service.
The prize is a strong conversion culture: community reports on r/Big4 put audit and tax return offers around 90%, with one r/deloitte thread reporting 95% or more. Other service lines are more demand dependent, so treat those numbers as community-reported direction, not a guarantee.
What Other Companies Should You Consider?
Almost nobody applies to Deloitte alone, and the sophomore-fall math holds across the Big 4:
- PwCSame ~22-month audit/tax lead time; one prep season covers both.Guide →
- EY & KPMGRound out the Big 4 on nearly identical windows.Guide →
- AccentureThe natural pairing for the consulting and technology tracks.Guide →
- Grant ThorntonMid-market exposure, same CPA path, often less competition per seat.Guide →
Our Big 4 accounting and audit internships guide compares the four firms' timelines, pay, and offer patterns side by side.
FAQ
Can I still apply for a summer 2027 Deloitte internship?
No. Deloitte ran summer 2027 tax postings as late as early August 2026, but those requisitions now return 404, audit's summer 2027 window closed around February 2026, and Discovery for summer 2027 ended May 1, 2026. Your live target is summer 2028, where tax closed August 12, 2026 and Audit & Assurance has not posted yet.
When do Deloitte internship applications open for summer 2028?
Tax opened August 6, 2026 and closed August 12, six days later. Audit & Assurance for summer 2028 has not posted yet and is still expected in the August to September 2026 window. Discovery runs until about May 1, 2027, and consulting, advisory, and GPS open August to September 2027.
Is Deloitte internship recruiting rolling?
Not exactly. The summer 2028 tax requisition carried a hard stated cutoff, August 12, 2026, six days after it posted, and it closed on that date. Inside that window review is fast: 2027-cycle applicants reported rejections within 3 days. Treat the posted end date as absolute and apply the day you see the posting, not the week.
What GPA do you need for a Deloitte internship?
Deloitte's 2027 audit, tax, and Discovery postings required a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or above, with 3.2+ preferred, and the Consulting Summer Scholar posting asked for a 3.3 minimum. A 3.0 clears the screen. Campus leadership, community service, and applying early are what move a borderline file forward.
Is the Deloitte internship paid, and how much?
Yes. Official 2027 posting ranges before geographic adjustment: audit interns earned $25.64–$51.44 per hour, tax interns $25–$48, and Discovery interns $28–$32. Community reports on r/deloitte and r/Big4 cluster around $34–$41 per hour for audit, sometimes with signing bonuses. Consulting-track interns generally earn more than audit or tax.
What is the Deloitte internship interview process like?
Expect an online application, sometimes a recorded one-way video interview with roughly four to six behavioral prompts, then live rounds: typically two 30–45 minute interviews with Deloitte practitioners. Audit, tax, and Discovery interviews stay behavioral (use the STAR method); consulting candidates also get an interviewer-led case study before a partner final round.
Do Deloitte interns get return offers?
Deloitte doesn't publish conversion rates, but community reports are strong for audit and tax: r/Big4 posters consistently describe roughly 90 percent return-offer rates, and one r/deloitte thread reported 95 percent or more. Consulting and advisory offers are more demand dependent by year and service line, so performance and timing both count.
Do I need 150 credit hours to intern at Deloitte in audit or tax?
No, but you need a plan. Deloitte's audit and tax postings require definitive plans to meet the educational requirements for CPA licensure in your office's state before starting full time. All US jurisdictions require 150 credit hours for licensure, so most interns plan a Master's in Accounting, a double major, or extra credits.
For accounting students, tax for summer 2028 came and went in six days, and the audit window opens in weeks, not years. Start a project now so the posting finds you with proof already on your resume. Explore all Externships to find one that matches your target track.
About the Author
Bifei Wang has spent 17 years focused on human flow and the growth of young professionals, spanning international education, career training and coaching, and recruitment process outsourcing. Over 7 years at Extern, he has had one-on-one sessions with thousands of students exploring careers in consulting, finance, tech, marketing, and data, giving him a firsthand view of how the job market has shifted for early-career professionals and what it actually takes to break in.
