The Department of Business and Economics takes full advantage of these resources and provides experiential education through internships, service learning, and attendance at lectures and conferences. Internships and Cooperative Education Experience allow students to apply the skills and knowledge they acquire in the classroom to the workplace. Internship sites include large corporations, banks, government agencies, non-profit organizations, as well as smaller entrepreneurial firms.
Service learning opportunities are available at direct service and policy oriented organizations.
Students attend the annual Career Day of the Economics Club of Pittsburgh, Entrepreneur's Day sponsored by The Enterprise Corporation of Pittsburgh, the Women in Development Conference at the University of Pittsburgh, and accounting career sessions at local universities and professional organizations. The Department of Business and Economics was awarded a grant for the Chatham College Kauffman Entrepreneurial Internship Program to pay students for entrepreneurial internships in the 1997-98 academic year. This grant was renewed for the 1998-99 academic year.