When your son or daughter gets ready for college, they’ll be faced with juggling classes and perhaps a job, and an internship. If you send them to the Hull College of Business, chances are all three will be taken care of. Here are two questions with the Dean!
ABD: You have a very unique internship program, and talk a little bit about the value that it brings to the students that actually go to work while they study.
HULL: It’s something that we did a couple of years ago, where we require every business student to complete an internship.
Our students come away with real-world experience. So, while they can talk with a number of other college students and college graduates about how they completed a successful business program, they can go into interviews and be able to talk about how they worked in teams, how they problem solved, how they had to follow in on this project and lead on a different project, how to manage different projects and manage different people.
And so those are, those are the skills that we hear over and over from employers that students need to be developing.
And so, given this internship, they immediately get that experience. And often it tells them this is, this is the field that they want to go into, or this may not be the industry that they want to go into. And so, it provides a lot of value to the students. You know, being in college is difficult when you have to really focus on your studies, but you have to earn a little bit of money.
ABD: What if a really good unpaid internship is available for a Hull student?
HULL: We highly encourage our internship partners, to make them a paid internship, because we want the students to obviously receive financial benefits for the value that they provide. And we hope that the employers see the value of having these interns, you know, in their workplace.
But even in cases where there’s a great internship opportunity that’s unpaid, the Hull College of Business has unpaid internship stipends that we’re able to offer. So, we don’t want students in a situation where they’re having to work, you know, a part-time job, do their internship, and then also take courses.
