Contact: Dr. Dave Baglia
Office: HAL 317A
E-Mail: dsbaglia@gcc.edu
Phone: 724-458-3361

The Department of Accounting at Grove City College offers the Internship Program to enable students to advance their professional preparation through work experiences which complement the course work in their majors and for which they earn academic credit.  The benefits of the internship experience are:  development of task skills in a specific functional area; diverse real-world organization-based experience in a work environment; development of interpersonal and professional skills in the work place; the opportunity to evaluate academic theory versus practice; and increased understanding of potential jobs and career opportunities.

The department considers both formal internships and qualifying jobs as candidates for academic credit.  An internship is so-titled by the host organization.  This is a situation in which the host organization has a structured program to teach the student about its operations and the business in which it operates, in return for which the student performs specified tasks for the host organization.  Qualifying jobs are those jobs through which students will gain valuable work experience to complement their academic programs and from which they will learn valuable accounting and business skills, but which may not be titled as internships.