Quick answer
An internship report has five chapters after the preliminary pages: introduction (background, objectives, methodology, limitations), the organisation’s profile, the activities you performed, your analysis and findings, and a conclusion with lessons learned and recommendations — followed by references and annexes. Most colleges in Nepal expect 30 to 50 pages.
The internship report is where eight weeks of work become marks. Examiners read dozens on the same banks every year, and the difference between an ordinary one and a good one is rarely the writing — it is whether the student recorded what they actually did. Your college’s own format always comes first; this is the structure nearly all of them share.
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01Internship report format
| Part | What goes in it |
|---|---|
| Title page | Report title, organisation, your name and roll number, programme, college, university, submission date. |
| Recommendation and approval | The supervisor’s recommendation letter and the college’s approval sheet. |
| Declaration | That the report is your own work, signed and dated. |
| Acknowledgements | Thanks to the organisation, your supervisor there and your faculty supervisor. Half a page. |
| Table of contents, lists of tables, figures and abbreviations | With page numbers. |
| Executive summary | The whole report in one page — written last. |
| Chapter 1: Introduction | Background, objectives of the internship, methodology, limitations. |
| Chapter 2: Introduction of the organisation | History, vision, structure, products and services, branch network. |
| Chapter 3: Activities performed | Departments you worked in and what you did in each. |
| Chapter 4: Analysis and findings | What you observed and what the figures show. |
| Chapter 5: Conclusion and lessons learned | Summary, what you learned, recommendations to the organisation. |
| References and annexes | Sources in the required style; forms, photos, your attendance, the internship certificate. |
02Chapter 1 — Introduction
- Background: why internships are part of the programme and where you did yours, with dates.
- Objectives: three to five, written as “to understand…”, “to gain practical knowledge of…”, “to analyse…”.
- Methodology: the organisation selected, the duration, and how you gathered information — observation, working in departments, informal interviews with staff, annual reports and the website.
- Limitations: honest ones — the short period, restricted access to confidential data, rotation through only some departments.
03Chapter 2 — The organisation
Keep this to a quarter of the report at most. It is the easiest chapter to copy from the annual report, and examiners know it. Give the history in a paragraph, then the facts: when it was established, its capital and ownership, the number of branches and staff, its main products, and an organisation chart. Cite the annual report and the website for every figure.
04Chapter 3 — Activities performed
This is the chapter that is yours alone, so it should be the longest. Go department by department in the order you rotated, and for each one say what the department does, what you were asked to do, and how the process works step by step.
05Chapter 4 — Analysis and findings
Take one thing you saw closely and examine it: the account-opening process and where customers wait, deposit and loan growth over five years from the annual reports, the mix of products at your branch, a SWOT analysis of the organisation.
Use two or three tables or charts with real figures and say what each one shows. A SWOT with four generic bullets in each box is the weakest version of this chapter; one process described accurately, with a problem you noticed, is the strongest.
06Chapter 5 — Conclusion and lessons learned
- Conclusion: what the internship covered and what you found, in half a page.
- Lessons learned: practical ones — a system you learned, how to deal with customers, how a bank actually checks a loan file.
- Recommendations: two or three, each tied to something in chapter 4. “Add a token system at the customer service desk during the first week of the month” beats “improve customer service”.
07Formatting
Your college’s guideline decides this. Where it is silent, these are the usual settings:
- A4 paper; Times New Roman 12 for text; 1.5 line spacing; justified.
- Margins of about 1.5 inches on the left for binding and 1 inch elsewhere.
- Chapter titles centred and bold; headings numbered 1.1, 1.2, 1.1.1.
- Roman numerals for the preliminary pages, ordinary numbers from chapter 1.
- References in APA style unless your college says otherwise.
- Every table and figure numbered, titled and sourced.
08What examiners mark down
- Copying another student’s report — the same bank, the same paragraphs. Viva questions expose it in a minute.
- A thin chapter 3 and a long chapter 2: more about the bank’s history than about what you did.
- Figures with no source or year.
- Recommendations from nowhere — not connected to anything you observed.
- No internship certificate in the annex. Ask for it in your last week; the internship certificate page shows what it must state.
Common questions
What is the format of an internship report?
Preliminary pages (title, recommendation, declaration, acknowledgements, contents, executive summary), then five chapters — introduction, the organisation, activities performed, analysis and findings, conclusion with lessons and recommendations — followed by references and annexes.
How many pages should an internship report be?
Most colleges in Nepal expect 30 to 50 pages excluding annexes. Follow your college’s own limit where it gives one.
How do I write an internship report for a bank?
Describe the bank briefly in chapter 2, then give most of the report to chapter 3: the departments you rotated through — customer service, cash, clearing, credit, remittance — what each does, and what you did there. Add an analysis of one process or of the bank’s figures, and finish with lessons and specific recommendations.
Can I use another student’s internship report as a sample?
Read one to understand the structure, but write your own. Reports on the same organisations are submitted every year, examiners recognise copied text, and the viva asks about what you personally did.
What are the objectives of an internship report?
Typical objectives are to gain practical knowledge of the organisation’s operations, to relate classroom theory to practice, to understand the working of specific departments, and to analyse one aspect of the organisation’s performance or process.