Internships are a great way to gain real-world experience and credit toward your ISS Master's degree at the same time. Being an active student can open up internship opportunities with many organizations, such as the State Department, UN, and NGOs across many different areas.
You might consider looking at internships with:
- U.S Government Agencies/Departments
- UN Agencies
- Economic IGOs (e.g., World Bank)
- Regional IGOs (e.g., OAS)
- Human Rights NGOs
- Political Campaigns or Offices
Check out the links below to explore some internship programs. Since the ISS program is fully online, you can move to anywhere around the world for an internship opportunity!
See administrative policies to learn more how to earn course credit for your internship.
Internships with the U.S. Government
- Department of State
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- Presidential Management Fellows Program
- Central Intelligence Agency
- Federal Bureau of Investigations
- National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
- Department of Commerce
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- Millennium Challenge Corporation
- United States Agency for International Development
- Customs and Border Protection Pathways Program
- Transportation Security Administration
- House International Relations Committee
- U.S. House Homeland Security Committee
- U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs
Internships in International Governmental Organizations
Internships in NGOs and Think Tanks
- Amnesty International
- Human Rights Watch
- Brookings Institution
- International Rescue Committee
- The Millennium Project
- Commission for Security and Cooperation in Europe – The Helsinki Commission
- Corporate Council on Africa
- American Enterprise Institute
- American Foreign Policy Council
- Atlantic Council of the United States
- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- CATO Institute
- Woodrow Wilson International Center
- Center for American Progress
- Center for Security Policy
- Center for International Policy
- Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Foundation for Defense of Democracies
- The German Marshall Fund of the United States
- Heritage Foundation
- Hudson Institute
- Institute for Policy Studies
- Jewish Institute for National Security
- Richard Nixon Foundation
- The Tharir Institute for Middle East Policy
- The Henry L. Stimson Center
- The Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)
- Council on Foreign Relations
Internships in the Private Sector
- Boeing
- Computer Sciences Corp
- Northrop Grumman Corporation
- PriceWaterhouseCoopers
- Raytheon
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- MITRE Corporation