Get Ahead. Get Experience. Get an Internship!

Whether it’s 1 month or 4 years from now, many of you will be running across the graduation stage in order to become proud alumni of the UIC College of Business Administration. Though you may have aced every exam and made tons of friends during your undergraduate career, the question still remains: What real-world experience will you have?

It is much more effective to gain knowledge about your particular field by completing an internship, rather than endlessly jotting down notes in a classroom. Internships allow students to apply what they’ve learned in the classroom to real-life situations. How many times have you sat in class and thought, “This is a waste of time. I’m never going to use this!” You never really know until you’re working on the job.

Gaining internship experience enables students to have helpful contacts and references. Moreover, interns are able to get their foot in the door before other applicants. If a company believes that an intern is a valuable asset to the company they will almost certainly offer the intern a job.

Degrees are cool, but working as an intern for a company in your field shows valuable experience to prospective