<p>So Penn apparently has a handy dandy Penn Internship Network thingy that is basically a database of all the internships held by students. Since it just started this fall, it only contains Summer 2007 data, but I'd say the IR folk did rather well...</p>
<p>The following companies/institutions were represented this summer:</p>
<p>Hess Corporation (NYC)
HSBC Securities (NYC)
Apple, Inc. (Beijing)
Morgan Stanley (NYC)
Showtime (NYC)
Avascent Group (Washington DC)
Microsoft (Redmond WA)
US Department of State (Washington DC)
US-China Business Council (Shanghai)
FBI (Washington DC)
The ONE Campaign (Washington DC)
Dropps (Philadelphia)
Dilworth Paxon (Philadelphia)
Univision (Los Angeles)
AIG (NYC)
Kohl's (WI)
Dada USA (NYC)
Corporate Executive Board (Washington DC)</p>
<p>Not a bad showing, not bad at all! As you can see it's very broad, spanning the public and private sector, national and international, into such broad sectors as marketing, finance, technology, law, public service, petrochem, entertainment...</p>
<p>Participation in the list is voluntary, so it is by no means a complete list.</p>
<p>Are these internships also open to foreign students who do not have an American passport?</p>
<p>On the whole, it can be hard to get a job as an international. You really need to have a permanent visa or green card to get anywhere - asking for sponsorship can make it impossible to find a job.</p>
<p>However, companies love to employ you in one of their international offices if you can’t work directly in the US (and in switzerland you should have no problem finding a local office of a major firm), and that can lead to a US job offer later.</p>
<p>what about swiss prositutes with a wide repetoire of cunning lingual skills/ gymanastic backgrounds?</p>
<p>hey mattwonder, dont major firms like GS, Lehman Brothers, CitiGroup etc sponsor a lotta international kids from Wharton for an H1B visa?</p>
<p>yeah…‘if’ I get accepted in a month it wouldn’t be bad…sigh…</p>
<p>Some do. It’s actually very difficult to get an H1B visa, so many Wharton international students end up working for those firms in other countries.</p>
<p>Well certain jobs are obvious not open to non-US citizens (namely, those with the US government). The rest, however, vary a bit more.</p>