Student Options
Field-based learning is an important part of the graduate curriculum allowing students to gain valuable industry experience and networking opportunities. Students can explore interests, and use knowledge gained from coursework in their work environment. Field-based options include internships, courses with fieldwork projects, and Global Business Experience programs. Students are, however, limited to taking no more than two of the following to satisfy elective or concentration requirements; Global Business Experience courses, field-based directed studies or credit bearing internships.
The various options and courses available to students are listed below:
A Sample of Courses That Include Field Components:
Course offerings with field components are constantly updated and cover a variety of disciplines. For the Day MBA Program, courses such as Management Consulting Teams and Business Processes involve extensive senior-level project work for an organization. Other courses involve more specific projects. Contact the course instructors listed in the registration book or your Program Director if you would like to know more about whether courses include a field-based component.
A sample of courses that include field components:
AC731
CS753
GBE (Global Business Experience)
MG 705
Some field-based courses are completed on an individual basis rather than as a formal class. ES701 and MG705 fall in this category of courses along with individual directed studies designed by students in conjunction with faculty. Information about these opportunities and the approval process can be found in the Guidelines for Preparing a Project Proposal for a Field-Based Directed Study/Practicum. Print the Guidelines for Preparing a Project Proposal for a Field-Based Directed Study/Practicum to start the approval process.
Internships:
Student internships are work arrangements on a temporary basis that can either be for credit or non-credit. The university and student handle the academic requirements. Students must meet the requirement of 10 weeks of employment with at least 20 hours a week for a credit internship. See the Application Form and Instructions below to verify if you qualify for an internship. Contact the Program Director or the appropriate faculty internship coordinator if you would like further information on the criteria for qualification.
Students and Faculty Internship Coordinators can get a printer-friendly format of the Application Form and Instructions for all Graduate Credit-Bearing Internships.
To search for internship jobs go to the Miller Center for Career Services.
Credit Internships:
The following Internship programs afford students the opportunity to enhance self-realization and direction by integrating prior classroom study with experience in professional employment. Requires development of a study plan to identify the student's professional goals and to demonstrate how these goals can be enhanced through an internship experience. Includes regular meetings in which students discuss issues and business problems related to their work experience, and defend proposed solutions before fellow students and the internship coordinator.
- AC 701 (Internship in Accounting Practice): For further information regarding this course please contact Professor Karen Osterheld.
- CS 701 (Internship in Information Technology): For further information regarding this course please contact Professor Dennis Anderson.
- CS 881 (CIS Internship): For further information regarding this course please contact Professor Dennis Anderson.
- EC 701 (Internship in Business Economics): For further information regarding this course please contact Professor Alex Zampieron.
- ES701 (Entrepreneurship Practicum): For further information regarding this course, please contact Professsor Fred Tuffile.
- ETH 701 (Internship in Business Ethics): For further information regarding this course please contact Professor Michael Hoffman.
- FI 701 (Internship in Finance): For further information regarding this course please contact Professor Candy Bianco.
- FP 781 (Internship in Financial Planning Practice): For further information regarding this course please contact Professor Jack Lynch.
- HF790 (Internship in Human Factors in Information Design): For further information regarding this course please contact Professor Bill Gribbons.
- IB 701 (Internship in International Business): For further information regarding this course please contact Professor Golpira Eshghi.
- IPM701 (Internship in Information Process Management): For further information regarding this course please contact Professor Dennis Anderson
- MG 701 (Internship in Management): For further information regarding this course please contact Professor Fred Tuffile.
- MK 701 (Internship in Marketing Practice): For further information regarding this course please contact Professor Ian Cross.
- OM 701 (Internship in Operations Management): For further information regarding this course please contact Professor Fred Tuffile .
- ST 701 (Internship in Business Data Analysis): For further information regarding this course please contact Professor Dominique Haughton.
- TX 781 (Internship in Tax Practice): For further information regarding this course please contact Professor Jack Lynch.
Global Business Experiences:
Students tour company sites in locales such as Japan, India, Bermuda, China, Ireland, Austria, and Hungary. Typically, the Global Business Experince courses are fourteen days with accompanying academic requirements. They generally run during the summer, winter semester break or spring break. Contact George Thompson, Assistant Dean, or the course instructors of GBE790 courses if you would like to know more about scheduled programs. Be sure to check with your Program Director to make sure a Global Business Experience program fits in your program of study. For more information contact Assistant Dean George Thompson.
IT Centers/Labs:
Bentley's cutting edge facilities contain the latest technologies for students' learning. Working in one of the labs or centers provides valuable work experience. Contact the appropriate lab/center director for job openings. A number of the centers offer Department Assistantship opportunities.
Top of Page
