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Employer FAQ

What is IAESTE?

  • The International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience is an international network that facilitates internship exchange.
  • IAESTE was founded in 1948 at Imperial College, London. The first US committee was MIT in 1950.
  • Local level (Maryland Local Committee): find jobs for foreign students in the Maryland area and in return send Maryland students to intern abroad.

What are the benefits of hosting an international intern?

  • Add culture to a research group
  • Brings new perspectives to a research group
  • Networking with international engineers
  • For every foreign student given a job here, a MD student gets an internship abroad

Responsibilities:

You, the Employer

  • Write a brief training description (samples available) to help the National Office match an appropriate intern.
  • Pay intern a salary (sufficient to cover living expenses during internship period – $300/week minimum)
  • Pay a program fee (upon acceptance of intern): Ranging from $600 to $1300, depending on the length of internship
  • Train the intern.

Maryland Local Committee

  • Finds housing for the intern.
  • Picks up the intern from the airport
  • Plans social activities for the intern.

IAESTE National Office

  • Arranges the incoming intern’s Visa and insurance.
  • Matches an employer with an intern according the employer’s criteria.

 What is the process like?

  • Request an intern by completing an Offer of Training form by January 1st.
  • The IAESTE National Office will match you with one of approximately 30,000 students worldwide and send you the intern’s information by the beginning of April.
  • You will have final approval of the incoming intern, after reviewing the candidate IAESTE matched to you. If the intern does not meet your standards, the National Office will try to find another intern for you.
  • Intern Arrives!