Internships in The Accounting Major

Create a Highly Marketable Accounting Résumé

Champlain's Accounting major is focused on the action-oriented practicalities of what you will need to do on the job. It will provide you with great depth in the specific skills that will give you the most flexibility in a global industry.

Because you'll follow an in-depth curriculum in the Accounting major starting in your first semester, you'll be qualified sooner for internships. Getting early hands-on experience allows you more time to develop skills, learn from mistakes, explore your interests, and impress industry contacts.

Internship Locations for Accounting Majors Have Included:

How We Prepare You for Experiential Learning

We want you to be well prepared for your first internship, externship, or other fieldwork. After your first year of exploratory practical education, you'll be ready to work with your Career Advisor to take the next step. 

• The Upside-Down Curriculum allows you to get extensive classroom learning and hands-on experience with industry professionals in your first year, which gives you the real-world skills and qualifications to begin taking an internship or externship as early as the summer before your sophomore year.
  
  
• Champlain's Career Collaborative will help you develop your professional résumé and hone your interview skills. Early on in your studies, you'll be able to show employers what you know.
  
  
• Your professors will become your reliable mentors, pointing out the strategic academic and cocurricular activities that will help you build your professional skill set and enhance your résumé.

Local and national employers turn to Champlain for college interns because they are better prepared to work in professional environments than the majority of their peers from other institutions. Many Champlain graduates receive full- and part-time job offers from the organizations where they first took their internships or externships.

Read more about Champlain graduates' Career Success.