<p>I fell in love with Tulane when S was looking for schools 4 years ago. S was accepted and up until the last second was all set to go. Then his last school waited until the April deadline to accept him and he went to the other school instead. However, we both are quite fond of Tulane. He still feels it would have been a great choice. So now D is looking at schools. We automatically visited Tulane and she too fell in love with the school. However, as a mom who has now been thru this process once and has learned much I have one question. Has Tulane done anything to fortify their internship program? It was the only thing that, even four years ago when I didn't realize the importance of an internship, wasn't as stellar as I had hoped for. Has the career center been able to bring in other companies to recruit the kids? At the time the guy in charge of the Career Center was very honest and told the parents that kids should network amongst themselves. Needless to say, I agree but when thats the main advice from the head of the CC it doesn't give me lots of hope.</p>
<p>My D had no trouble finding internships and a job locally, but I cannot really speak to the broader scope of things. I know they have some kind of on campus event where companies come that have both service opportunities that fulfill their requirement in that area and these often lead to summer internships. As far as outside of New Orleans, Tulane is getting more sophisticated with LinkedIn and using it to network all the alumni, which should help make finding internships much easier. That’s about all I know, but I am sure there is more because they have beefed up the Career Center the last 2 years, if I understood my D correctly.</p>
<p>thanks fallenchemist</p>
<p>Tulane recently expanded their career center and hired more Career Counselors thank to a large donation [Tulane’s</a> Career services office to expand | Tulane School of Architecture](<a href=“http://architecture.tulane.edu/news/2013/08/article-633]Tulane’s”>http://architecture.tulane.edu/news/2013/08/article-633)</p>
<p>This amuses me to no end because I always think of Tulane being more ahead of the curve, but I have been teaching this class and doing 1-1 career counseling at my University for 13 years. I should have applied for one of the positions. </p>
<p>And not to get too deep into it, but when it comes to Internships and job search - networking is imperative. Long gone are the “placement” days. There are far more students looking for internships/jobs. I always tell students I will prepare them and get their resume in top shape and do mock interviews but there is a certain amount of personal responsibility when it comes to finding internships and jobs. We do hold an internship fair in the fall and a job fair in the spring but we can’t possibly know of every opportunity in every field.</p>
<p>As a current Tulane student of the business school, the opportunities offered by the school for internships and job openings are incredibly weak. This is actually a pretty general consensus amongst business students. I have had to look elsewhere in Louisiana for internship opportunities and I’m an out of state student.</p>
<p>There is a lot of focus on networking sadly because the school doesn’t have that “strong relationship with certain companies” in terms of giving students opportunities. Additionally, it should be said that Tulane’s business school heavily favors the Finance/Accounting majors over the Marketing/Management majors.</p>
<p>It’s very disappointing for me and other students that Tulane emphasizes so much on “who you know” networking in order to get a job after graduation. I can only speak for the Bschool, I can’t speak for the other schools of Tulane.</p>
<p>tulane12341- I think you will find that is not just a scenario found at Tulane. It’s pretty common place. When I first started my job we had maybe 15 kids a year do internships. Now almost every major requires an internship so there is no way to personally find internships for 500+ students every semester. It does seem that Tulane has recognized this to be an issue is is starting to make efforts to be more helpful. With that being said, Networking is always going to be your best method of finding jobs and internships, that’s jut the way the world works.</p>
<p>One thing I can say after doing a bit of digging is that the B school is in the process of hiring something like 6 people to focus on exactly this issue. Not in the general career center, but specifically for the B school. So apparently they have recognized the issue and are taking very tangible steps to address it. I would think that in a couple of years things will be much improved, let alone 4 years from now.</p>