Effects of Internship on Fresh Graduates: A case study on IIT, DU students

TL;DR

This study evaluates the impact of a six-month internship within the Software Engineering curriculum at IIT, DU, showing that students with internship experience perform better in industry than expected.

Contribution

It provides empirical evidence on the positive effect of integrated internship programs on fresh graduates' industry performance.

Findings

Internship students outperform industry expectations

Internship enhances practical skills and readiness

Curriculum with internship improves employability

Abstract

The aim of any curriculum is to produce industry ready students. The effectiveness of curricular activities, thus, can be measured by the performances of fresh graduates at their job sectors. To evaluate the Software Engineering (SE) syllabus, Institute of Information Technology (IIT), University of Dhaka, has taken an initiative, under the project IQAC, HEQEP, where a survey based study has been performed. The uniqueness of this SE syllabus is having a six month long internship semester inside the curriculum. Considering all the other courses and activities as traditional, the outcome of the study can fairly be considered as the effect of the Internship program. The result shows that the students having internship experiences, performed above the level of expectation from the industries.