Effects of Internship on Fresh Graduates: A case study on IIT, DU students
This addresses the problem of preparing industry-ready graduates for the software engineering field, but it is incremental as it focuses on a specific program.
The study evaluated the impact of a six-month internship semester within the Software Engineering curriculum at IIT, DU, finding that students with internship experience performed above industry expectations.
The aim of any curriculum is to produce industry ready students. The effectiveness of curricular activities, thus, can be measured by the performances of fresh graduates at their job sectors. To evaluate the Software Engineering (SE) syllabus, Institute of Information Technology (IIT), University of Dhaka, has taken an initiative, under the project IQAC, HEQEP, where a survey based study has been performed. The uniqueness of this SE syllabus is having a six month long internship semester inside the curriculum. Considering all the other courses and activities as traditional, the outcome of the study can fairly be considered as the effect of the Internship program. The result shows that the students having internship experiences, performed above the level of expectation from the industries.