Design Your Own: Worldwide Experience

You may secure an international work experience outside one of our established programs. We call these “Worldwide Independent Experiences.”

Such experiences can include cooperative education, academic internship, undergraduate research, service learning, and Experiential Exploration Program (EEP). Students may apply to UC for course credit for their experience.

If you do an independent experience, you are responsible for the following:

As the student, you must determine if a visa or other travel documents are required for the experience. You must also apply for the visa or travel documents. ELCE and UC International can advise you if needed.

As a UC student, you are responsible for informing your academic or experiential learning advisor of your upcoming education abroad and ensuring that you are registered with UC for the appropriate academic course(s).

UC students traveling abroad for an academic program are required to document their experience with UC International.

Students must complete a risk management application in the UC International online database:

• Worldwide Co-op Application
• Worldwide Internship Application

In this process, you will upload travel documents, complete travel questionnaires, purchase comprehensive international insurance, and apply for scholarship funding.

The following resources may help you find jobs around the world:

• Interstride: Discover jobs and internships around the world. Connect with your international community. Find resources to level up your global career.
• Handshake
• LinkedIn
• CareerShift: Use CareerShift‘s robust company and contact database to find current job connections and make meaningful new connections. You can also upload documents and save jobs and contacts within the system.
• Uniworld: Uniworld provides contact information for headquarters, subsidiaries, branches and executives of multinational firms with headquarters in more than 200 countries and 20,000 industries.
• Web sites of target companies