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EUSA OPENS BOSTON INTERNSHIP OFFICE

More than 100 student placements expected in first year

BOSTON - October 12, 2005
EUSA, a London-based educational organization and the largest independent supplier of American undergraduate student interns to industry sectors across Europe, has announced the inauguration of its first internship operation in North America.

"We are bringing our internship placement expertise to the Boston community and we look forward to screening and providing capable interns to organizations that will benefit from this kind of support," said Meagan Basilius, EUSA's worldwide internship director, who is on temporary assignment to Boston.

EUSA's first partner for Boston-area internships is Boston University, through its School of Management and Division of Extended Education. EUSA will provide more than one hundred internships during the 2005 - 2006 academic year across a range of industry sectors such as banking, financial services, marketing, business development, media, arts, healthcare, education, politics, NGOs and communications.

EUSA has staffed its Boston internship office and is developing relations with internship sponsors in the private, public and non-profit sectors in the Boston area. "We are very lucky to have selected two top professionals for our Boston office, who will place qualified graduate and undergraduate American and international students into appropriate professional practice internships," said Basilius.

Kate Moore, EUSA's director of internships in Boston, formerly served as the director of internships for American University in Washington D.C. where she oversaw the placement of 1,200 student interns for all Washington-based programs, including six summer and 40 traditional semester programs each year. Sean Williams, EUSA internship manager, has worked in Boston with John Hancock Financial Services and Financial Times Interactive, as well as EF Language Travel.

"We expect to expand to other countries and other continents," said Tony Johnson, executive director of EUSA, based in London. "Our academic partners have a global vision, and they expect the level of service from EUSA around the world equal to that they have received in Europe."

EUSA (www.eusa-edu.com) works with universities, departments, and individual professors to build customized, academically-directed international internship programs. EUSA currently works with 38 US colleges and universities for 95 academic internship programs in London, Dublin, Paris, Geneva and Madrid.