About 50 percent of college students work at an internship or co-op position at some point during their college careers. Of those students, 47 percent find experience in positions that are unpaid. In this light, unpaid internships simply require students to match that investment. “For me, student debt is absolutely a factor I consider while searching for a summer job,” said one student I talked to. Full disclosure, I worked at an unpaid internship last summer.

Source: Daily Sun September 18, 2017 04:07 UTC