Will the internship experience count as working experience for graduate trainee?

Some of the graduate trainee role require the candidate with less than 2-3 years working experience. If I have so many internship experience in University and sum of all the internship period has exceeded 2 years, can I still apply for those graduate trainee role? Or only the working experience upon graduation count? many thanks!!

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Are all of those undergrad internships relevent to the graduate trainee role? If not, I wouldn't include them, nor should they be on your resume. If it's a graduate role, you can easily spin the undergad internships as non-professional experience, or include the most recent ones (and relevant) if you need to get closer to two years. That's what I would do.

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