Internships
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Thomas Cooper 502-863-7957
The internship program provides students with valuable experience in actual business settings. This opportunity allows the students to apply what they have learned in the classroom to real-world business situations, and often the students are paid for the experience. Goals of the internship program are:
- Expand classroom learning into applied learning in a controlled professional environment.
- Partnership of student, corporate mentor, and Georgetown College program director.
- Emphasis on insightful cross-functional learning experience.
- Target 8-10 hours per week, over 15 weeks, for 3 hours of upper division credit in the Fall and Spring semesters.
- Grade point average of 3.0 or more is recommended; a minimum of 2.5 GPA is required for junior year students and a 2.0 for senior year students.
- Students select from a database of many opportunities in the Lexington area and interview for the internship.
- Not all internship positions are filled every session. Opportunities outside the Lexington area can be arranged.
- Regular monthly progress reports and reviews and a final paper report are required.
- A grade will be assigned based on student performance assessments, the results achieved, and the final written report.
- The mentor company's organization priorities and business practice determine project scope and resources, information access and confidentiality, and possible compensation and expense reimbursements.
Students who participate in the internship program work for a variety of area businesses. Companies that have recently hosted our interns include:
- Bank One
- Central Baptist Hospital
- Cincinnati Milacron
- Ernst & Young
- Hilliard Lyons Investments
- Host Communications
- Island Creek Corporation
- Kentucky Utilities
- Lexmark, Inc.
- Merrill Lynch
- Potter & Company
- PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Prudential Securities
- Target
- Toyota Motor Mfg.
Internship Course Description - BUA 460
3 or 6 hours; 150 hours per semester for 3-hours credit, 300 hours for 6-hours credit.
Assignments as interns in private, local companies, non-profit agencies, and government organizations. Assignment to internship project is determined by student's career or academic orientation; it is also dependent upon availability of suitable placement. Student is assigned to the organization for its normal working hours. Basic assignments will be training and development type activities introducing the intern to various aspects of a working organization. The student intern establishes goals and objectives for the internship and maintains a daily log of activities to be submitted for review at a monthly meeting with his or her Internship supervisor.
Please stop in the Business Department office to receive a complete
copy of the student Internship Program Handbook.