Business

All Providence College School of Business students who study abroad for a semester will complete an experiential learning requirement during their time abroad. This will be completed alongside 12 additional credit hours during their semester abroad. This experiential learning requirement for undergraduate business majors is intended to prepare students for their future professional and career aspirations. Students can select one of the following options to fulfill this requirement, depending on what the program provider offers: internship, business consulting, service-learning, or language immersion. For all business majors, the required experiential learning will be a free elective (in other words, not counting towards degree requirements), and will be transferred back to PC as a P/F course.

If students select the internship option, working alongside partner providers overseas, students will be placed into internship placements. These internships will provide them exposure to business in an international context. This experience will help develop and produce better prepared students for post-graduate employment opportunities. It will also enhance their employment prospects with multinational companies. Students will gain the cultural agility needed to compete in today’s globalized workforce. Upon their return, students will receive training in articulating the skills and competencies they developed in their internship to bolster their job application materials and improve their interviewing skills.

*As of Fall 2024, all CEA CAPA programs (this includes PC in Rome), will require students to complete 20 hours a week at their internship placement, on top of attending classes, resulting in a total of 240 hours at their placement per semester.

Approved Programs

The Providence College School of Business, in consultation with the Center for Global Education, has put together a list of approved programs for business majors, based on curricular fit and internship offerings. These include:

Notes About Choosing Your Program

Coursework Abroad

The majority of programs offered in non-English speaking countries are open to students with no prior knowledge of that language. However, the programs listed below may have specific eligibility requirements in regards to GPA, language, and/or course pre-requisites.  It is the responsibility of the student to research carefully these requirements prior to application.

Course offerings vary by program and semester, so students should not assume that a program will have the courses they need simply because the program appears on this list. Students also should consult the Center for Global Education and School of Business Policy on Study Abroad Courses.

Which Semester Should I Study Abroad?

In the chart below, students can find general guidance as to whether the fall or spring semester would work better for study abroad. This chart is a suggestion, and all students should work with their major advisors to determine which semester would be most appropriate given their course needs and career path. Finance and marketing students who are seeking a Wall Street internship following their junior year should be prepared to do remote applications and interviews.

MajorFallSpring
Accountancy majors on the 4+1 track (applying for leadership programs with global firms)x
Accountancy majors on the 4+1 track (applying for internships)x
Accountancy majors on track to complete 150 credit hours in four years  (applying for leadership programs with global firms)xx
​Accountancy majors on track to complete 150 credit hours in four years  (applying for internships)x
​​​​Finance majors pursuing careers in: banking, insurance, risk, analysis/management, or corporate treasury managementxx
​Finance majors pursuing careers in wealth managementx
​Management majorsxx
​Marketing majorsxx
​Marketing Fellowsx

Coursework Considerations for Accountancy Students

Introduction to the Profession is a required course that is only offered in the fall and is typically taken during the junior year. If students study abroad in the junior fall semester, they will have to take this in their senior year. The course has been shown to be a valuable experience for students to learn about the various professional opportunities that they may have and deferring this to their senior year may not be optimal. Proactive students that plan to study abroad fall of junior year could arrange to take this in their sophomore year. Students who study abroad in the spring semester can take the course in the fall of their junior year.

Auditing is a required course that is taken in their senior year, but is only offered in the fall semester. Accounting Information Systems is a prerequisite for Auditing, therefore students that study abroad need to be sure to take this in the semester of their junior year that they will be on campus.

Coursework Considerations for Finance Students

Students who are pursuing careers in wealth management typically take FIN-495 and FIN-496 (SMIF I and II). These courses will run spring of the junior year and fall of the senior year. Therefore, students planning to take these courses should study abroad in the fall.

Students planning to take FIN-445 Portfolio Management should study abroad in the spring semester as that course is currently only offered in the fall semester.

*Please note: In order to balance the number of students intending to study abroad across the academic year, the College reserves the right to restrict the numbers of students approved to study abroad in any one semester.