193
students received academic credit for their internships during the 2019-20 academic year
156
unique for-profit and non-profit organizations provided internships to College of Communication students in 2019-20
A total of 193 College of Communication students participated in the College's Internship Program during the 2019-20 academic year, 19 of whom were graduate students. 84% of students found internships with for-profit businesses, and 16% of students interned for non-profit organizations. A sampling of the 156 internship providers includes:
- ABC7 Chicago
- American Lung Association
- Burson Cohn & Wolfe (BCW)
- Chicago Fire
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Digital Factory
- Facets Multimedia
- Global Girl Media
- Hilton
- House of Blues
- ICF Next
- Lincoln Park Chamber of Commerce
- Modern Luxury
- NBC Universal
- Skirt PR
- Second City
- Vera Wang
- Weber Shandwick
- WGN
About 43% of students had paid internship positions. The majority of students found and secured their internships through networking at 31%.
Undergraduate Internships
Our undergraduate internship opportunities were most prevalent for Public Relations and Advertising majors at 43%, followed by:
- Communication Studies majors (19%)
- Journalism majors (16%)
- Communication and Media majors (13%)
- Organizational Communication majors (3%)
- Sports Communication majors (2%)
- Media & Cinema majors (2%)
- Communication & Technology majors (2%)
These figures are from a pool of 174 undergraduate students.
Graduate Internships
Graduate students also found opportunities to work in professional internships in their fields of study. Journalism internships led at 32%, followed by:
- Public Relations & Advertising (26%)
- Communication Studies (16%)
- Health Communication (11%)
- Communication & Media (5%)
- Organizational Communication (5%)
- Media & Cinema Studies (5%)
These figures are from a pool of 19 graduate students.
Updated on September 21, 2020