- Learn more about your field
- Build new skills while improving on your existing strengths
- Grow personally and professionally
- Clarify your occupational goals
- Add “real world” experience to your resume
- Gain valuable networking contacts in the field
- Acquire letters of recommendation from your internship supervisors
- Increase your employment opportunities following graduation
- Discover your likes/dislikes in the work place
- Apply classroom theory in a practical setting
- Earn credit towards your degree
