Internships and academic credit

ryanbis
Tue, 01 Aug 2006 01:52:42 +0000

In general, I don’t recommend working for free, but there are some industries where you need to do what you can to break in.

To do an unpaid internship, you’re going to need to convince your school to give you credit for it. It’s illegal for a company to employ you and not compensate you–unpaid internships get around this by offering you academic credit as compensation. You’ll either have to convince your school or the company will have to find another way to compensate you.