Students are encouraged to participate in an internship Germany to learn first hand about daily life and business practices.
Brief program description
Although our internship program only began in January 2004, we’ve already had eleven participants. Vladimir Ilic, a 2006 Carroll School of Management graduate, did a paid summer internship in 2005 at the Frankfurt office of Cerberus, a private equity firm. He found the position through the USA-Interns Program in Frankfurt. Two other CSOM students interned for six weeks in summer 2005 at the Bellagio Forum for Sustainable Development in Osnabrück, an international network for grant providing institutions. In addition Atlas Anagnos, a junior international study major, interned at the Forum during his spring break from his yearlong studies in Eichstädt in spring 2006; he was followed by two other interns that summer. The forum provided room and partial board. Matthew Sieber, a junior, found his own paid internship at a bank in Berlin where he worked while studying at the Brown in Berlin program at the Humboldt University during the academic year 2007-2008. Beatriz Martinez, another CSOM student, was placed by USA-Interns in a position at the University of Mainz in summer 2008. And in June 2009 John Paul Kost, an economics major, will begin a five-week internship at the Bundesamt für Wirtschaft und Ausfuhrkontrolle near Frankfurt. This position too was obtained through USA-Interns.
Michael George (photo), a 2004 graduate in economics was our very first intern. He completed a yearlong internship at the Munich office of Intel and is now working at the Boston Consulting Group in Düsseldorf. Toward the end of his stint at Intel he gave a one-hour presentation at their Zürich office entirely in German. He was rightly proud of this since his German was only at the intermediate level when he first arrived in Munich. Michael was succeeded in Munich by interns Craig Zematis and Katherine McDaniel; Craig now works for Intel in the UK. Unfortunately the Munich office has now been downsized, and all future internships are in Dublin and open only to EU residents. Michael is still willing to help people find internships at the Boston Consulting Group in Düsseldorf however.
In addition to these internships there are many other possibilities including ones in media related fields. If you would like information about these or any other internships please contact:
Agnes Farkas, German Studies Department, Lyons 201 (552-3740, farkasag@bc.edu). 