The China Internship Business Is Booming

Given China’s dramatic and evolving role in the global economy, many undergraduate business students are skipping summers on the beach for an internship in Beijing or Shanghai. The goal: to gain valuable international work experience that they hope will help them land a job.

“Knowing how to do business there and understanding the culture there will help me get the job I want,” says Alyssa Thomas, a senior at Quinnipiac University School of Business, who is majoring in marketing and international business and spent last summer interning in Shanghai for the advertising company Noveler. Thomas hopes to land an overseas job in management consulting when she graduates.