The University seeks to prepare students who have the ability, attributes and attitude to engage in discovery learning for their roles as future employees. Internships enable individuals to develop the skills, attributes, abilities, behaviours, insights and attitudes needed to fill workplace positions successfully while observing, questioning, reflecting on and learning from the practices of job incumbents. 

PIA Postgraduate Internship is designed to provide students with real life work experience in local, mainland Chinese, and/or international contexts for a clearly defined period of time. Students are expected to gain practical understanding of the professional contexts and operations of public organizations, private sector, NGOs, non-profit organisations or political-related organizations and to apply some of the programme-related theories, skills and work ethics they have learned in the programme curriculum.