Teach For America is proud to partner with GE.

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.

GE is honored to partner with Teach For America. We share the same commitment to expanding educational opportunity, and are particularly invested in improving math and science education. By working to enlist more qualified math and science college graduates to enter the classroom, Teach For America provides quality education to those who need it most, helping to build a strong and diverse workforce and society. We value the leadership skills and experience that distinguish Teach For America corps members and look forward to having them consider possible careers at GE.

- Jeff Immelt, CEO, General Electric

Partnership Benefits

• Two-year deferrals for students who receive job offers from GE and are also accepted into Teach For America.
• Summer internship at GE between first and second year of corps experience for those who receive a job offer.
• GE recruits Teach For America corps members for full-time and summer internship opportunities.

Eligibility Requirements

• Candidates must be offered a position within one of GE's participating business groups (please inquire directly with GE).

• 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 GE business groups, the candidate must inform GE that s/he would like to apply for a two-year deferral through the GE - Teach For America partnership.
• 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.

Learn more about the GE/Teach For America deferral program here.