Internships provide an opportunity for you to apply your talents in a real-life work environment. Focus your career objective. Strengthen your resume.
Relevant experience is the number one thing employers look for on a resume.
Without internship experience you may get screened out and never get a chance to interview for the career you seek. Improve your interviewing skills. In an interview, employers look for candidates with relevant experience who know what they want to do. Builds your academic transcript. Not only can you receive invaluable work experience from an internship, you may also be able to acquire credits that will count towards graduation.