Independent Study
Most of our second-year students make use of Tuck’s independent study option to customize their educational experience, another benefit of our small scale and curricular flexibility. Unlike an internship, independent study isn’t a 
rehearsal for your next job. Instead, it’s a means to explore and develop new insights that you can bring to a new career.
Independent study projects are grounded in the established fields of management but they can cover a remarkable range of topics, from health insurance reform to airline scheduling protocols and data-envelopment analysis to sustainability reporting. Each study must be approved and supervised by two faculty members and graded at its conclusion.