Teach For America is proud to partner with Goldman Sachs.

Joining Teach For America before pursuing a career in business will provide you with the management experience and skills that will help you have a greater impact in the business world. By committing two years to teach in a low-income community, you will have an unparalleled opportunity to assume tremendous responsibility—managing a classroom of students, setting ambitious goals, and inspiring your students to meet those goals. Through this experience, alumni say that they developed invaluable communication and time-management skills that are highly transferable to a career in business.

Partnership Benefits

• Two-year deferrals for students who were summer interns in select divisions with a full-time offer from Goldman Sachs and are accepted into Teach For America.
• Goldman Sachs recruits Teach For America corps members for summer internship opportunities.

Eligibility Requirements

• Candidates must meet all of Teach For America's minimum application requirements.

Deferral Partnership Details

• Once a candidate has been accepted by Teach For America and has a full-time offer from one of the participating Goldman Sachs business groups, the candidate must inform Goldman Sachs that s/he would like to apply for a two-year deferral through the Goldman Sachs - Teach For America partnership. Deferrals may be granted for all divisions and locations on a case-by-case basis.
• Teach For America applicants have two weeks to confirm whether they will join the corps after they are notified of acceptance. Deferral candidates that require extra time to coordinate their deferral may e-mail Teach For America’s admissions team (admissions@teachforamerica.org) to request a decision extension.