Role of Implementation of Internship Program of Bachelor of Science in Office Administration and Performance of Students in the Industry Partner

Internship provides students an avenue to acquire practical experienced in a professional work setting as embedded in their academic program. Internship program enhances students' skills and competencies through training and development thus, bridging the gap between the academic environment and the industry or professional development. The study aimed to determine the relationship between implementation of internship program and performance of students. The researchers used the descriptive-correlation method and universal sampling in determining the 152 On the Job Training Student in Bachelor of Science in Office Administration and the statistical tools were Mean and Pearson-r. Data revealed that the r-value of 0.790 is and has a significant p-value of 0.000 which is less than the alpha of 0.05. This means that the result indicated that there is a significant relationship between implementation of internship program and performance of students. It implies that the implementation of internship program in terms of training objective, nature of exposure and evaluation tool has an impact in the performance of student. In other words, implementation of internship program could affect performance of students among student in Bachelor of Science in Office Administration in Santo Tomas, College, Agriculture, Sciences and Technology.