College of Business

Internships benefit students in numerous ways, including:

• Engage in the real-life workforce
• Develop professional growth
• Establish networking skills
• Increased work offers
• Increased initial career satisfaction

The best way to secure an internship is to register with us. We provide individualized assistance in connecting you with internship opportunities.

The primary reason students want to do this is to take BUS 498 and continue working for their current employer. Many students have developed great internships with their current employer.

However, your internship cannot simply be handling your current employment responsibilities.

An internship needs to provide you with new challenges, allowing you to use your skills and knowledge in new ways.

Some companies have used this opportunity to give employees a chance to take on new management responsibilities, work in different departments, or complete valuable projects, such as developing an operations manual, or conducting an analysis of some aspect of business operations.

Your employer needs to work with you to design the learning outcomes of your internship, mentor you during your internship, and provide evaluations of your work.

Any student can have an internship. However, one must be a junior or senior to earn Academic Credit while completing an internship.

An intern can work part-time (10-20 hours) during the semester and full-time during the summer, if not enrolled in any summer courses.

For Academic Credit, an internship must provide at least 200 hours.

Most interns are hired as paid employees by the employers offering internships. We do sponsor some unpaid internships with nonprofit organizations.

See our Academic Credit Page

See the Forms Page

An internship is an employment experience in which a student is given the opportunity to use skills and knowledge in a new context with the guidance of a mentor.

Interns can benefit your company in numerous ways, including:

• Creating project outcomes
• Establishing collaborative relationships
• Talent identification
• Community Investment
• Able to shape the next generation of work ethics

An intern can work part-time (10-20 hours) during the semester and full-time during the summer, if not enrolled in any summer courses.

For Academic Credit, an internship must provide at least 200 hours.

Interns are hired as paid employees by the employers offering internships. We do sponser some unpaid internships with nonprofit organizations.

See the Forms page

Internships for for-profit organizations should be paid. We do sponsor some unpaid internships with nonprofit organizations.

An employer is not bound to keep an intern employed for the agreed upon internship duration if circumstances occur for which the employer would terminate his relationship with any other employee.