Using
data from a longitudinal survey of college students from over 400
institutions, this paper examines the impacts of occupational internship programs
and voluntary academic leave on returning academic achievement,
post-college ambitions, and general facets of the college experience.
Previous literature on college internships has focused on labor market
effects and the literature on academic leave has emphasized its causes.
Much less has been done to analyze effects of these occurrences on
collegiate outcomes.
College internships are found to have a positive
effect on grades, increase desires to work full-time or attend graduate
school immediately following graduation, and slightly increase ambitions
to have administrative responsibilities and be financially well off.
Voluntary academic leave is found to have only negative effects on
collegiate outcomes, including study habits and academic achievement
upon return. Implied policy implications are that colleges and
universities should champion internship programs but discourage college
tenure interruption for other reasons.
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