http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/jobs/intern/faq.aspx http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/jobs/intern/faq.aspx The majority of our interns are PhD candidate

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/jobs/intern/faq.aspx http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/jobs/intern/faq.aspx The majority of our interns are PhD candidates, however, we also accept some master’s students who demonstrated a serious interest in research. Point taken. The poster needs to decide how academic research focussed they are.