| Interships | Practicums |
| Duration: Typically a semester longer | Duration: Usually part-time work during a semester |
| Number: Students usually complete no more than two while attending college | Number: Students usually complete one while attending college |
| Experience: Meaningful, often long-term projects, with assigned responsibilities and deadlines | Experience: Generally, job-shadowing; real-life preview of a career |
| Benefits: Some paid, some unpaid | Benefits: Unpaid |
| Educational Benefits: Usually college credit; academic advisor will interface with workplace supervisor | Educational Benefits: Usually college credit; academic advisor will interface with workplace supervisor |
| Career Benefits: Contacts, networking, possibility of leading into long-term employment | Career Benefits: Contacts, networking, possibility of leading to internship |
| Approach: Professionalism and commitment | Approach: Professionalism and commitment |
