Deloitte Internship 2027–2028: Programs, Deadlines & How to Apply

Last updated: July 2026

Deloitte opened summer 2027 audit and tax internship applications on August 18, 2025, roughly 22 months before those interns start, and students on r/Big4 reported rejections within 3 days. 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. For audit and tax, applications for summer 2028 are expected to open August–September 2026. If you're an accounting major, that's your sophomore fall, and it's weeks away.

Quick Facts

The row that trips people up 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 when-to-apply guide shows how unusual this lead time is across industries.

Why You Must Apply the Week Applications Open

Deloitte's official pages describe the programs but never the review cadence, so the rolling evidence is behavioral. In the 2027 cycle, applicants reported rejections within 3 days of the August 2025 opening. 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 within the first week.

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:

Two things jump out of the table. Discovery is a real gateway: it doesn't convert directly to full time, but strong performers get a signal toward a future Client Service internship. 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.

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?

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.

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.

What Is the Deloitte Application and Interview Process Like?

The process runs four stages for most US intern tracks:

1. Find the posting early. Search apply.deloitte.com or go through your campus career center; Deloitte recruits through university career fairs in parallel.

2. Online application. Resume plus office and service-line selection. Seats are per-office. So pick your office deliberately rather than defaulting to the biggest city.

3. Screen, sometimes with a recorded video interview. Some roles add a one-way video interview: typically 4–6 behavioral or situational prompts, about 30 seconds of prep, 2–3 minute answers, no retakes. Prep-site claims that AI scores these first are third-party, not confirmed by Deloitte.

4. Live rounds, then a final conversation. Commonly two back-to-back 30–45 minute virtual interviews: behavioral plus role-specific. Audit, tax, and Discovery stay behavioral; consulting candidates get an interviewer-led case, closer to McKinsey's style than Bain's, then a senior manager or partner final round.

Offers often land within days to weeks given the rolling model. Deloitte publishes its own STAR-method behavioral interview tips; build your stories around them.

What Students on Reddit Say

The community threads fill in what official pages leave out: timing pressure, pay, and how return offers actually shake out.

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:

1. Apply the week postings open. 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: PwC, EY, and KPMG all run audit and tax windows on nearly the same ~22-month lead time, so one prepared application season covers all four. Accenture is the natural pairing for the consulting and technology tracks, and Grant Thornton gives mid-market exposure with the same CPA-path structure and often less competition per seat.

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?

Mostly no for audit and tax. Those summer 2027 windows closed around February 2026, and Discovery recruiting for summer 2027 ended May 1, 2026. Some consulting, advisory, and GPS postings for summer 2027 are expected to open August–September 2026, so search apply.deloitte.com this fall and apply within the first week.

When do Deloitte internship applications open for summer 2028?

It depends on the track. Based on the documented 2027 cycle, audit and tax applications for summer 2028 are expected to open August–September 2026 and close by early 2027. Discovery recruiting for summer 2028 should run until about May 1, 2027, while consulting, advisory, and GPS postings should open August–September 2027.

Is Deloitte internship recruiting rolling?

Effectively yes. Deloitte hasn't published an official rolling policy, but 2027-cycle applicants reported rejections within 3 days of the window opening, and recruiting guides advise treating the listed deadline as a final cutoff rather than a target. Seats fill per office as applications arrive, so apply the week a posting goes live.

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, the summer 2028 window opens in weeks, not years. Start a project now so sophomore fall finds you with proof already on your resume. Explore all Externships to find one that matches your target track.