Internships these days aren’t about fetching coffee, they’re about fetching a future. Most NYU Abu Dhabi students will work at least one internship between freshman and senior year because the best place for university students to gain meaningful career experiences and polish their professional skills is the workplace.
NYUAD helps students find opportunities in their area of interest, whether at a bank, art museum, tech firm, or biology lab, prepare an application, and get ready for interviews. Internships can happen any time of year, anywhere in the world, and there’s a good chance the experience will lead to a job after graduation.
“I did two internships at Google,” says Yana Dmytrivna Chala, a computer science major from Ukraine. “I first got the first internship (in London, UK) after my sophomore year, and returned for a second internship in Stockholm.” Today, she is working full-time at Google in London.
Like Yana, many students in the Class of 2019 pursued multiple internships. Almost half had four or more work experiences; 93 percent of the class had at least one. Notably, 30 percent of 2019 graduates got a job at a company where they were interns.
The Class of 2019 held 900+ internships over four years. Here are some of the companies and organizations they worked for.
- ABB Group
- Abdullah Al Ghurair Foundation for Education
- Abu Dhabi Film Festival
- Abu Dhabi Finance
- Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
- Adidas
- Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation
- Aldar Shares and Bonds
- Amazon Web Services
- American Enterprise Institute
- Apple
- Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington
- Autism Support Network
- Badger & Winters
- Bain & Company
- Baker McKenzie
- Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi
- BDO Chartered Accountants
- Bergner Europe
- Bosch Middle East
- Boston Consulting Group
- Brunswick
- Cartoon Network Studios Arabia
- CBS News
- Central Bank of the UAE
- Christie’s
- Citibank
- Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
- CNN
- Condé Nast
- Credit Agricole - Indosuez Wealth Management
- Deloitte
- Department of Culture and Tourism - Abu Dhabi
- Discovery Kids Channel
- Dubai Opera
- EFG Hermes
- Emaar
- Emirates Airlines
- Emirates Wildlife Society
- Emirates Youth Council
- Enerwhere Sustainable Energy
- Ernst and Young
- Etihad Airways
- Fredericks Michael & Co.
- General Electric
- Gianni, Origoni, Grippo, Cappelli & Partners
- Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher
- Guotai Junan Securities
- H+ | The Hip-Hop Dance Conservatory
- Harvard Business School MENA Research Center
- Hedayah
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise
- HSBC
- Human Rights Watch
- IBM
- Imagine Science Films
- International Law Institute
- IRENA
- Jane Goodall Institute
- Japan 2020 Olympics
- John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
- JP Morgan
- Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation
- KPMG
- Leo Burnett
- LIVIN farms
- Lockheed Martin UAE Ltd.
- Louvre
- MasterCard
- McKinsey and Co.
- Mubadala
- Musee Magazine
- MWH Global
- Nadácia Zastavme Korupciu
- New York City Council
- Parkview Arts Action
- Philips
- PWC (PricewaterhouseCoopers)
- Robben Island Museum
- Roland Berger
- Sandooq Al Watan
- Seoul International Women’s & Film Festival
- Sheikh Khalifa Medical Center
- Siemens
- Skoch Group
- Special Olympics
- Teufel Lautsprecher
- The Art Newspaper
- The Museum of Modern Art
- Total
- Twofour54
- UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation
- Uber
- UNESCO
- VentureSouq
- VUL9
- White & Case LLP
- World Bank
- World Wild Fund for Nature (WWF)
