Princeton Review Ranks Wooster #9 for Internships
WOOSTER, Ohio 鈥 Princeton Review ranks 69直播 number nine in the nation on its list of 鈥,鈥 based on student ratings of the accessibility of internship placement.
, the college鈥檚 integrated center for advising, planning and experiential learning, has the resources and skilled advisers to connect students with both paid and unpaid internship opportunities around the world, and聽聽can provide up to $3,300 in financial support to students whose career exploration involves an unpaid internship.
This summer, chemistry majors Rose Taylor and Chris Good landed highly-competitive paid聽聽at Dow AgroSciences, where they found themselves working alongside Dow veteran and Wooster alumnus Jeff Gilbert. Micheas Yiman worked for another alum鈥檚聽聽company, Outdoor Access, in Richmond, Va. Emma Cotter and Halen Gifford designed and conducted a聽聽for a consortium of local groups, including the Wayne Economic Development Council, through Wooster鈥檚聽聽program. Scores of other Wooster students, with majors as varied as English, art, computer science, and philosophy, interned everywhere from a wildlife preserve in Florida to an ad agency in Vietnam.
69直播 is America鈥檚 premier college for mentored undergraduate research. Wooster offers an excellent, comprehensive liberal arts education, culminating in a rigorous senior project, in which each student works one-on-one with a faculty mentor to conceive, organize and complete a significant research project on a topic of the student鈥檚 own choosing. Through this distinctive program, every Wooster student develops abilities valued by employers and graduate schools alike: independent judgment, analytical ability, creativity, project-management and time-management skills, and strong written and oral communication skills. Founded in 1866, the college enrolls approximately 2,000 students.
Posted in News on October 23, 2018.
