Consulting Application Deadlines 2027: Internship Dates and When to Apply

Summer 2027 consulting internship dates for US students, taken only from each firm's own careers page, deadline page or job posting and checked November 2 to 7, 2026. To filter by open, closing soon or degree, use the consulting internship deadlines table. UK and Europe dates are in the UK consulting deadlines tracker.

"No deadline stated" means the posting is live but gives no closing date. "No posting live" means the firm's own job search showed no summer 2027 posting for that role when we checked; it does not mean the firm will not hire. Dates are US time unless the firm's page says otherwise. Firm names link to our guide for that firm.

Which summer 2027 consulting internships are still open?

For MBA students, most of the large firms close in November: BCG on November 10, Bain on November 11, McKinsey and AlixPartners on November 12 and PwC, including Strategy&, on November 17. EY-Parthenon and Accenture follow on November 29, L.E.K. and Altman Solon on November 30, Alvarez & Marsal's Public Sector Services role on December 15 and OC&C on January 4, 2027. Deloitte's Enterprise Strategy Summer Associate keeps recruiting until March 1, 2027. Oliver Wyman, Simon-Kucher, Huron and two more A&M MBA roles are live with no deadline stated, so apply to those first: they can close as soon as the class fills.

For US undergraduates, the summer 2027 cycle is mostly over. BCG's US page says its 2027 summer internship applications have closed, McKinsey's tool shows the Business Analyst Intern round as passed, PwC's undergraduate deadline was September 25 and EY took Consulting and EY-Parthenon applications through September 22. Simon-Kucher's Americas internship and Charles River Associates' economics internship are still open, and Analysis Group recruits interns from October to March.

Sophomores have real windows now: Bain's BEL, CREW and First Forward close November 30, and FTI's IMPACT Leadership Program, which gives priority for summer 2028 internships, closes January 28, 2027. The big firms' summer 2028 internships are not open yet; Bain's US school pages say its Associate Consultant Intern applications typically open in the spring. See the freshman and sophomore consulting internships guide for more early programs.

Apply early or on the deadline?

It depends on how the firm reviews. Read the posting, not the calendar:

• Fixed window, one per year. McKinsey says applicants after a deadline are invited to re-apply in the next cycle, so there is no late round.
• Posted until filled. EY says some roles stay posted until they are filled, and Oliver Wyman, Simon-Kucher and Huron state no closing date. An early application is read while places are still open.
• Stated close time. BCG, PwC, L.E.K., OC&C and Alvarez & Marsal give an exact closing time. Submit before it, in the time zone the firm names.

Your campus portal can set an earlier internal date than the firm's national deadline. Check it before you count on the dates above.

What each firm's page says about applying

These rules come from the same firm pages as the table, and they change how you plan around a date.

McKinsey

McKinsey's deadline tool tells US MBA candidates to follow the US deadline no matter which office they want, with one application window per year. Applying after a deadline means re-applying in the next cycle, so pick your offices before you submit rather than after.

Bain

Bain publishes its US deadlines on school pages rather than one national page. Its Harvard Business School and Wharton pages list November 11, 2026 at 11:59pm PT for the MBA Summer Associate, and its sophomore programs (BEL, CREW and First Forward) close November 30. Bain's site blocks automated checks, so these rows are from our November 2 read; confirm on your own school's Bain page.

BCG

BCG's US MBA page lists November 10, 2026 at 11:59pm local time and asks you to pick your top two offices and keep them consistent across applications. Its undergraduate page says a select group of candidates is invited to an online case about two weeks after the application deadline. If any of your office preferences is outside the US, BCG asks for its separate international application as well, so an office abroad is a second form, not a checkbox.

EY-Parthenon

EY asks applicants to apply to no more than two jobs within a six-month period, and to match their location preferences to the locations listed on each posting. Its interviews may include prerecorded video, live video and case study rounds. EY says most early-career roles need US work authorization without sponsorship, with a short list of exceptions by service line.

PwC and Strategy&

PwC's deadlines page lists one date for every MBA senior associate intern role, including Strategy&: November 17, 2026 at 5pm ET. The postings are for candidates one year away from finishing their MBA when they apply. For 2027 undergraduate interns the deadline was September 25, 2026, so watch the same page for the summer 2028 date.

Accenture

Accenture's Strategy MBA internship starts in June and runs about 10 weeks. The posting asks applicants to apply by November 29, 2026 to be considered.

Alvarez & Marsal

A&M's Public Sector Services summer associate role is a 7-week internship for graduate students (MBA, MPP, MPA and similar programs) finishing within a year, and the posting names typically 2 to 5 years of work experience before or during graduate school.

Oliver Wyman

Oliver Wyman's 2027 MBA Summer Associate in Health and Life Sciences lists New York, Boston, San Francisco and Chicago. The posting prints no deadline, so it can close whenever the class fills.

How we check these dates

We take each date only from the firm's own careers page, campus deadline tool or job posting, open each one in a browser, and record the day we checked it. We do not copy dates from prep sites, school blogs or forums. When a firm prints no date, the table says so rather than estimating one. Firms change postings without notice, so open the linked page before you plan around a date.

Full-time dates are on separate pages: McKinsey application deadlines for Business Analyst and Associate roles, and the MBA consulting recruiting timeline for how MBA internship and full-time recruiting fit together.