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.
Success Stories
Expanding BP’s tech pipeline
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 […]
City Scholars Impress at JPMorgan Chase
City Scholars has been a huge success for JPMorgan Chase in attracting talent from University of Illinois’ Grainger College of Engineering. Seventy-five percent of students from the company’s first class of interns accepted an offer for full-time employment starting this summer. “We were impressed from the beginning,” said Steve Benni, an Executive Director in JPMorgan […]