College Internships

College Internships November 21, 2012 Dartmouth College is among the universities at which the highest percentage of students graduate with internship experience. Ever wonder which colleges produce the most interns? Well, wonder no longer! Menachem Wecker of US News World Report has put out a ranking for the universities in the United States that produced the largest percentage of interns among the class of 2011. So who tops the list of college internships? That would be Clarkson University where 86% of the Class of 2011 graduated with internship experience. Clarkson is ranked #115 among national universities in the US News rankings. Coming in second on the internship ranking is the Colorado School of Mines, at which 81% of students graduated with internship experience (the school is ranked #77 in the overall ranking). In third is the Ivy Leagues Dartmouth College (ranked #10 in the US News overall ranking this year). At Dartmouth, 72% of students graduated with internship experience among the Class of 2011. One reason Dartmouth may appear on this list is because the school requires sophomores to spend their sophomore summer at the college. Because students are required to be on campus during that term, they take off another term at some point to even things out. When students are off from school during the fall, winter, or spring, they often dont have as much internship competition as most interns intern during the summer months. It gives Dartmouth students a career edge in many ways. Coming in fourth is Clemson University, where 67% of students graduated with internship experience (the school is ranked #68 overall). After Clemson comes Pace University, University of Pittsburgh, University of Memphis, Syracuse University, DePaul University, and Stevens Institute of Technology.