Author: Compiled by Tara Castillo

Source: Foreign Policy Association

U.S. State Department

Student internship.

What could a student internship mean to you at the U.S. Department of State? It's an opportunity for you to get an inside look at the different types of positions and responsibilities available in foreign affairs. Think of it as taking a career test ride before you actually have to decide what you are going to do with your life.

U.S. State Department

Fascell Fellowship Program.

A Fascell fellowship gives you firsthand exposure to a foreign culture, while you are serving your nation. Typically, your duties may involve substantive administrative, consular, political/economic or public diplomacy responsibilities. Most fellowships are intended for, but not limited to, teachers, scholars, academics, and graduates of advanced-level programs focused on Eastern Europe, Slavic, or Mandarin languages.

U.S. State Department

Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs/Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship Program.

The fellowship program is funded by the United States Department of State and administered by the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation (WWNFF). The Department of State seeks a Foreign Service that represents America in world affairs with citizens who reflect the diversity and excellence of our society. The program seeks to recruit talented students in academic programs relevant to international affairs, political and economic analysis, administration, management, and science policy. The goal is to attract outstanding students from all ethnic, racial and social backgrounds, who have an interest in pursuing a Foreign Service career in the U.S. Department of State. The Program develops a source of trained men and women from academic disciplines representing the skill needs of the Department, who are dedicated to representing America's interests abroad.

Presidential Management Intern

Internship.

For the past 25 years, the Presidential Management Intern (PMI) Program has been attracting outstanding master's and doctoral-level students to the Federal service. The PMI Program is your passport to a unique and rewarding career experience with the Federal Government. It provides you with an opportunity to apply the knowledge you acquired from graduate study. As a PMI, your assignments may involve domestic or international issues, technology, science, criminal justice, health, financial management, and many other fields in support of public service programs.

Central Intelligence Agency

Graduate Studies Program, College Students and Student Trainee Program.

The Central Intelligence Agency invites you to participate in its Internship Program. This unique program is designed to give promising undergraduate students, particularly minorities and people with disabilities, the opportunity to gain practical work experience to complement their academic studies. Students will be given the opportunity to work with highly-skilled professionals and see first-hand the role the CIA plays in supporting U.S. officials who make our country's foreign policy. We are interested in students majoring in: computer science, finance, electrical engineering, physical science, economics, geography, non-romance languages, international relations, national security studies, military and foreign affairs, or political science. The Internship Program is mutually beneficial to the student and the Agency. Students participate in substantive and meaningful work assignments while earning a competitive income.

Defense Intelligence Agency

Academic Semester Internship Program (ASIP)

DIA’s Academic Semester Internship Program provides promising undergraduate seniors and graduate students at universities and colleges in the Washington, DC/Baltimore, MD metropolitan area the opportunity to gain practical work experience in intelligence analysis while enrolled in classes.

United States Agency for International Development

Student Programs

Current USAID Student Intern Programs opportunities are listed here. The basic qualifying factors to be eligible to participate in the program are: U.S. citizenship, current enrollment in a college or university; and a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 3.0

Office of the United States Trade Representative

Internships

The student intern program at USTR is a volunteer program where undergraduate and graduate students gain knowledge and experience on U.S. trade policy and, in many cases, earn college credit at the same time.Assignments range from research, analyses, statistics, briefing books, report preparation, meeting and conference planning, letter writing, to covering Hill meetings, hearings, and markups as necessary.

National Security Agency

Undergraduate and Graduate Student Programs

You're about to enter a whole new world... to explore an opportunity with one of the most important and advanced agencies of its kind. Get ready to be surprised and inspired. At the NSA, you will join an organization that is charged with carrying out a number of the country's most important and sensitive intelligence activities. Our ongoing mission involves monitoring, gathering and decoding foreign communications (signals) from around the world, as well as Information Assurance --- protecting our country's own security and communications from exploitation…and transforming data into key intelligence for use by the highest levels of U.S. decision-makers.

Institute of International Education

Fulbright

The U.S. Student Program is designed to give recent B.S./B.A. graduates, master’s and doctoral candidates, and young professionals and artists opportunities for personal development and international experience. Most grantees plan their own programs. Projects may include university coursework, independent library or field research, classes in a music conservatory or art school, special projects in the social or life sciences, or a combination.

Carnegie Endowment Foundation

Junior Fellowship Program

Each year the Endowment offers up to ten one-year fellowships to uniquely qualified graduating seniors and individuals who have graduated during the past academic year. They are selected from a pool of nominees from close to 200 colleges. Carnegie Junior Fellows work as research assistants to the Endowment's senior associates. No one will be considered who has started graduate studies. The Endowment's nomination deadline is January 15 of each year. Colleges generally set an earlier application deadline. See your Career Services/Placement Office to learn more about the college application process.

Department of Justice

Legal Intern RecruitmentSummer Law Intern Program

Every year law students from around the nation gain significant work experience by joining the Department as volunteer legal interns or through the work-study program. Judging from the comments of past interns, they are not walking away disappointed. "How many first year law students get to pick up the day's Wall Street Journal or New York Times and say, "Hey, that's the case I'm working on!," and, "[It's] the best job I ever had...Compared to my roommates who are working at private firms, I have much more responsibility. They are jealous."

Deutscher Akameischer Astaush Dienst German Exchange Service

Support of a Study/Research Period in the Federal Republic of Germany

The German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) offers Graduate Scholarships to highly qualified graduate students, Ph.D. candidates and post-doctoral researchers for study and/or research at universities or institutes in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship

Scholarship

The purpose of the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, as stated in the enabling legislation, is to alleviate a critical current and future shortage of highly qualified scientists, mathematicians, and engineers. A more realistic statement of the purpose, in today's terms, is to provide a continuing source of highly qualified individuals to those fields of academic study and research.The Foundation is supported by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Fund, which has been established in the Treasury of the United States. Funding for awards and administrative expenses derives from interest on the Trust Fund, invested in U.S. securities.

The George Mitchell Scholarships

Funding for Graduate Studies in Ireland

The US-Ireland Alliance established a prestigious, competitive, national scholarship to enable Americans between the ages of 18 and 30 to study at universities on the island of Ireland. The George J. Mitchell Scholarships, named in honor of the former Senator's pivotal contribution to the Northern Ireland peace process, are intended to interest and involve the next generation of America's leaders in the US-Ireland relationship. These Scholarships allow Americans to pursue one year of post-graduate study at institutions of higher learning in Ireland and Northern Ireland.

National Security Education Program

David L. Boren Undergraduate Scholarships

NSEP was designed to provide U.S. undergraduates with the resources and encouragement they need to acquire skills and experience in countries and areas of the world critical to the future security of our nation. As a student of another culture and language you will begin to acquire the international competence you need to communicate effectively across borders, understand other perspectives and analyze increasingly fluid economic and political realities.

Pamela Harriman Foreign Service Fellowship

Financial sponsorship of U.S. Department Internships in London and Paris

The College of William and Mary established the Pamela Harriman Foreign Service Fellowships to inspire the best of a new generation to pursue careers in public service. The Awards are offered annually to three outstanding undergraduates from across the nation. Each student will be given the opportunity to spend a summer in a professional position with the United Stats Department of State.

Harry S. Truman Scholarship Fund

Scholarship

The mission of the Truman Scholarship Foundation is: 1. to find and recognize college juniors with exceptional leadership potential who are committed to careers in government, the non-profit or advocacy sectors, education or elsewhere in the public service; and 2. to provide them with financial support for graduate study, leadership training, and fellowship with other students who are committed to making a difference through public service.

International Monetary Fund

Summer Intern Program

The IMF offers internships to about 35-40 graduate students each summer to carry out a research project under the supervision of an experienced economist. Interns prepare a paper outlining the results of their research (which they may be asked to present to the staff of their department at the end of the assignment). Papers of high standard may be published internally. Competition is very fierce and each year over 1,000 summer intern candidates worldwide submit applications. Although usually well over one hundred meet our standards, the IMF only has places for 35-40 and we are unfortunately obliged to turn away many excellent applicants.

The World Bank

Robert S. McNamara Fellowship

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