While a number of students at MIT engage in service through student groups and FSILGs, other opportunities for service learning include:
- D-Lab is MIT’s largest service learning effort. In D-Lab subjects, students apply their math, science, engineering, social science, and business skills to tackle a range of global poverty issues. Many D-Lab subjects include opportunities for fieldwork.
- Priscilla King Gray Public Service (PKG Center) – The PKG Center helps to connect MIT students to public service opportunities. The PKG Center provides information, guidance, and funding to students.
- Freshman Urban Program (FUP) - While FUP is unaffiliated with an academic subject, FUP encompasses important aspects of service learning, chiefly the opportunity for MIT students to reflect on their community service experiences and discuss social issues such as inequality, poverty, sustainability, and privilege.
- IDEAS Competition - An annual service and social entrepreneurship competition for students run by the PKG Center.
- University of Southern California: Joint Educational Project. ~2000 students incorporate service projects into their coursework annually. This program is recognized for the high level of faculty-student interaction and student engagement in weekly personal and intellectual reflections (Greenfield, Keup, & Gardner, 2013).
- University of Southern California: Writing in the Community. Students partner with community groups to tell stories about social issues through writing and film while developing their composition and rhetoric skills. Participation in this program allows students to satisfy the general education writing requirement.
- Stanford Cardinal Quarter - A full-time, quarter-long (8+ week) public service experience (domestic or international). Students can design their own experiences or chose from nearly 500 pre-arranged opportunities. Cardinal Quarter participants engage in preparatory programs, cohort activities, advising sessions with faculty members, and reflection activities during and after the service experience.
- Purdue University: Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS). Student teams, guided by faculty and industry advisors, work with community organizations to identify, design, build, test, and deploy technological solutions to address a challenge the organization is facing. Hundreds of students participate in EPICS each year and first-year students are actively recruited. Based on its success, the EPICS program has spread to other campuses (Oakes et al., 2002).
- Butler University’s undergraduate students in computer science and software engineering are required to participate in an EPICS course.