This paper is concerned with finding answers to the strengths and weaknesses of the internship program. The study is limited by its setting in the private schools of Mindanao. The adequacy or inadequacy of admission requirements, laboratory and cooperating schools, the qualifications and experiences of the teaching staff, the programming of the intern’s activities, the on-campus, off-campus, post-off-campus requirements, and the community experiences of the interns were considered. Data was gathered through the use of five sets of questionnaires, interviews with the school officials involved in the Internship Program, and documentary analysis of theses, bulletins, circulars, department orders, brochures, handbooks, mimeographed materials, professional magazines, newspapers, and books about the Internship Program. In conclusion, the paper states that a majority of the private normal schools in Mindanao do not strictly follow the policy of selective admission of prospective enrollees to the Collegiate Normal Course and that no less than 72.43% of the private normal schools in Mindanao adopt the policy of selective retention, therefore giving way to the deduction that their screening of students was done while taking the course in college.