Location:

Shanghai, China

Program Type:

Intern Abroad

Degree Level:

Undergraduate

Term:

Summer

Work Types:

Business

Program Overview

Program Description:

Our program guarantees an internship placement to help you develop professional skills that will jump-start your résumé and make you more attractive to employers in today’s competitive job market. IES Internships' unpaid, academic internships place Shanghai students at local companies, while also showing students the sights and sounds of China.

Intern in the financial hub and largest city of China—Shanghai. This thoroughly modern city, nicknamed “the Paris of the East”, features a heavy influence from Western business, culture, and architecture. As an IES intern in Shanghai, you’ll be fully immersed in the multicultural life of this metropolis. Imagine heading to work by ferry, subway, bus, or foot. Then later enjoying lunch from any one of the 23 Chinese provinces or cuisine from more than 20 countries. An IES Internship in Shanghai develops your professional skills, your ability to communicate across cultures, and provides substantive work experience to jump-start your career in today’s competitive job market.

IES Internships, a unit of IES Abroad, offers an exhilarating challenge of real-world experience combined with professional skill building and cultural immersion. Whether you want to spend eight weeks over the summer interning full-time in the field of your choice, or partake in a part-time internship as part of our study abroad program to supplement semester or summer coursework abroad, we have a program that will suit your needs.

Setting Description:

A thoroughly modern city risen from a fishing village less than 100 years ago, Shanghai has been heavily influenced by Western business, culture, and architecture. If you're searching for a rapidly changing, dynamic city to in which to study, Shanghai is your destination. Learn the impact of such rapid modernization on local customs and the environment. Practice your Chinese with some of the over 26 million citizens calling this—the largest and most developed city in China—home.

Cost:

Contact IES Abroad or see our website for cost.

Additional Program Information

Scholarships:

Yes

Scholarships Description:

IES Abroad offers $5 million dollars in need- and merit-based scholarships and grants that can be used toward an IES Abroad study abroad program. Apply online using our universal Aid Application, and we’ll pair you with the scholarships and grants.