Internship is a process of education where SMU and industry come together to offer meaningful, career-related work experience to students, while simultaneously providing an excellent source of highly-motivated, career-minded individuals for employers.

Purpose of the Internship

The internship programme serves to:

• Reinforce and strengthen the students' personal values and career objectives through an improved understanding of themselves and the work environment
  
  
• Assist students in identifying and acquiring the skills needed to enter a chosen field
  
  
• Provide practical work experience to balance the students' theoretical training
  
  
• Allow students to meet and learn from professionals in the field and develop a network of contacts

Practical Experience

These practical internships offer our students personal real world insights and exposures to actual working life, an experiential foundation to their career choices, and the chance to build valuable business networks. All students complete a minimum 10-week stint in a business organization either locally or overseas.

The typical internship period would be in the summer, from mid April to mid August, ranging between 10-16 weeks. Students could also take a semester off to embark on a local or overseas internship stint.

In 2007 alone, the average SMU student completed between 2 to 4 internships, attesting to the value these experiences bring. Our interns do not just learn, they value add with ideas and suggestions. Many of them are talent-spotted and offered jobs by these companies even before they graduate.