While many graduate students already have experience in the business world, internships can still play a key role if you wish to move within jobs, change industries or simply gain more hands-on experience.
As an intern, you gain workplace skills while extending your network. You may find the transition from academics to work easier as a result of your internship.
When you become an intern, you can gain:
- Greater certainty about your career choices
- Greater confidence in the value and professional quality of your skills and abilities
- Better understanding of what it takes to find a job and what it takes to succeed
Find an internship
Graduate Career Connections TM (GCC) is a resource specifically for graduate students in the Business School. GCC connects students with strategic employers in the Denver business community and helps students find internship openings.
For more information on getting an internship, or to access a database of current open internships, please visit the GCC page.
Types of internships
Internships can be fulfilled in three ways. Before taking on an internship, consult your advisor to be sure that it fits your degree plan.
Academic credit internships are not paid, but offer experience to bridge your classroom work with your industry work, as well as credit hours toward your major. You will have a faculty sponsor from your major who will administer the internship. You faculty sponsor may have specific requirements that must be completed for you to get the credit.
Some internships may offer pay as well as credit hours. These internships earn anywhere between $8 and $20 an hour depending on the position, your major and the company. Paid internships with academic credit also require a faculty sponsor from your major to administer the internship.
Paid internships do not provide credit hours. These internships still require a faculty supervisor and a learning agreement. Because you do not get academic credit, you can start the internship at anytime.