247
students received academic credit for their internships during the 2017-18 academic year
189
unique for-profit and non-profit organizations provided internships to College of Commmunication students in 2017-18
A total of 247 College of Communication students participated in academic internships during the 2017-18 academic year, 19 of whom were graduate students. A majority of students (84 percent) found internships with for-profit businesses, and 16 percent of students interned for non-profit organizations. A sampling of the 189 internship providers includes:
- Crate & Barrel
- LiveNation/House of Blues
- Chicago History Museum
- Mercy Hospital & Medical Center
- NBC Sports Chicago
- Northwestern Mutual
- PAWS Chicago
- Bandwidth Marketing
- The City of Chicago
- PeopleScout
- H2 Public Relations
- Paradigm Talent Agency
About 36 percent of students had paid internship positions, which marks a 3 percent increase from the 2016-17 academic year.
Undergraduate Internships
$12.88
Average hourly pay for undergraduate interns
6%
increase in average hourly pay from 2016-17
Our undergraduate internship opportunities were most prevalent for Public Relations and Advertising majors at 53 percent, followed by:
- Communication Studies majors (16 percent)
- Journalism majors (14 percent)
- Communication and Media majors (12 percent)
- Organizational Communication majors (3 percent)
- Media and Cinema Studies majors (2 percent)
These figures are from a pool of 228 undergraduate students.
Graduate Internships
$15.88
Average hourly pay for graduate student interns
13%
increase in average hourly pay from 2016-17
Graduate students also found opportunities to work in professional internships in their fields of study. Journalism internships led at 32 percent, followed by:
- Public Relations and Advertising; Communication and Media (26 percent)
- Health Communication (11 percent)
- Digital Communication and Media Arts (5 percent)
These figures are from a pool of 19 graduate students.