U.S. college students' skill development, by internship participation 2012

This graph shows recent university graduates responses to a survey question about how well they felt their college education had contributed to the development of certain skills. The responses shown here are from those who answered that their skills had been developed extremely well and are differentiated by those who had completed an internship and those who hadn't. 38 percent of graduates surveyed who had completed an internship felt that their leadership skills were extremely well developed, as compared to only 26 percent of those who had not taken an internship.