BTW @insanedreamer, my S’s GF, who is from mainland China, got her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from a Chinese university, and is doing her graduate work at Columbia on a fellowship from BASF. It provides all of her school costs plus a generous stipend. Apparently BASF prefers to hire American students to work for them in the US. Possibly to avoid passport issues? Anyway, it’s something to look in to down the road. A visit to the career services office to discuss this and other possibilities going forward would be a good idea. Now that she is settled in, it isn’t too early to start scoping out the landscape of internships and so on.
BTW, my father was a chemical engineer and BASF was one of his firm’s major clients for many years. (An interesting coincidence. 
) He traveled to Germany quite frequently when I was a child, and we lived in England for two stints and one in Holland.