Students gain valuable experience through this semester-long study and work program in Chicago where they go behind the scenes of Chicago’s tech sector. Partner with the Grainger College of Engineering to identify, hire, and retain leading students to compete with coastal markets and build Chicago’s tech workforce.
Quicket Solutions—a Chicago startup led by two U of I graduates—is doing its part to bring the next generation of Illini engineering talent to the city. Christiaan Burner and Akshay Singh founded Quicket Solutions in 2014, a year before graduating from the University of Illinois: Burner from the Gies College of Business and Singh from […]
Over half of the Spring 2020 City Scholars are returning to Chicago for an internship or job and over 90% of those who received an offer to stay in Chicago have accepted it.
BP America offered two computer science students from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) internships during the spring semester to work with Information Technology & Services teams at BP’s downtown Chicago location. Chicago serves as the headquarters of BP’s North American fuels business, including its U.S. pipelines business, while also housing one of the […]