When to Intern?

Career Opportunities & Internships
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<p>do most college students intern during the school year, or during summer? im trying to decide whether i should go to cal state fullerton or ucsb for economics. i think, i could be wrong, that ucsb econ department is better. the problem is that santa barbara is more of a tourist city than a city of commerce and business, whereas cal state fullerton is in orange county, where i live, and where i will most likely live and pursue a career after graduation. </p>

<p>so if i go to cal state fullerton, i can make connections with businesses and people who actually live where i live, and i can intern during the school year. but if i go to ucsb, i wont make as many local connections and will only intern during the summer. the thing is, that if i know i can only intern during the summer anyway, than shouldnt i just go to the better school?</p>

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<p>Most student intern during the summer as opposed to the school year. Folks who intern during the school year are usually engineers. However, there are a few other people who do intern during the school year but that is still not common. </p>

<p>I advice you go to UCSB and intern during the summer. You could also intern during the winter to pad up your resume a little more. That really helps especially now when getting a job is much more competitive.</p>

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<p>Definitely UCSB over Cal State Fullerton.</p>

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<p>what about UCSB vs Occidental?</p>

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<p>occidental</p>

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<p>bump (10 char)</p>

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<p>Both schools are heavily recruited for Big4 accounting. Of course, maintaining a high GPA is required. But i assume that is true for just about every school with an accounting program, sarbox, go figure. </p>

<p>Have you decided on a career or possible career? Do you want to utilize your economics degree? that was sarcasm*** (Economics major myself, no pun intended) But honestly, if you’re majoring in economics… its best to minor in accounting, mathematics, or just go into finance. Any area where there’s lots of numbers.</p>

<p>To my point. Look at the career center’s website and talk to the counselors and see what types of internships are offered and ask about stats of students that were accepted to respective internships.</p>

<p>If you’re worried about making connections; that might be a problem at csuf; its a commuter school. I wouldn’t expect as many campus events as say UCSB where lots of students live on campus. You’ll want to go to a school with long standing economics/business fraternities/sororities and professional campus organizations. Not to mention an extensive alumni directory(that’s where the “money”(connection) is).</p>

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<p>well with my career i think im probly gonna go into investments, whether it be real estate or in the markets/banks. i have alot of collateral already, and i figure with an economics degree, if i know how to spend/save/invest money, as well as read/predict the market, i should be ok when it comes to knowing how to invest.</p>

<p>and yeah, i looked into SB’s economics majors and minors a while back. they offer straight economics, business-economics, and economics-mathematics. i know i have enough units already, from AP tests and Comm College classes to double major. so i was gonna major in economics mathematics and then something else to my liking, either philosophy or history. but my history teacher told me that statistics would be more helpful in economics than mathematics. So i might do my first major strait economics, and 2nd major in “financial mathematics and statistics.” any suggestions there?</p>

<p>as far as the schools go, im not really looking at CSUF anymore. my choices now are either UCSB for 4 straight years or go to a Comm College for 1 year and transfer into Occidental. I’m a senior in high school, in case you didnt catch that already, and i didnt apply to Oxy but i like their LAC atmosphere (I Early Decisioned to Claremont McKenna.) i visited Oxy yesterday and i really liked the campus, but not so much the liberal arts philosophy there. i feel like Claremont McKenna had alot more to offer.</p>

<p>But i’m still not sure, because their financial aid and scholarships are very helpful, so im not too worried about cost, and if i go there i’ll only be paying for 3 years since my first will have been at a CC. but if their economics program is strong then i might still consider it. when i asked some ppl their about economics at the school, the didnt seem like it was really strong, but not really bad either. Right now i think i’d be happy at either SB or Oxy, its just, which one would be better for my economics major.</p>

<p>I think SB - bigger school, economics there seems strong, nobel prize winners, esp one in economics. plus i think with the growing competitiveness of UC’s, the value of my degree from SB will soon increase as the school becomes more and more selective, allowing only top tier students.</p>

<p>What do you think? and if you dont mind me asking, where do you go to school?</p>