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Discover the WII Difference

 Although you have several choices among internship programs in Washington, DC, and each program has its virtues, there are several reasons for WII to be your first choice when recommending a program to your students.

Academic quality
WII employs the principles of integrative learning to create a structured academic environment with seminars, involved internships, and significant reflection.
We are the only internship program that requires all students to take the “Internship Seminar – Bridging Theory and Practice,” which complements the internship. In addition, all WII faculty have earned doctorates, held faculty rank, and taught at the undergraduate level.

Individualized, personal attention

Because of our small size, we interact with all students personally and individually throughout their time in Washington. Simply put, we know every student and keep in close touch with them before, during, and after their participation in the program. Key administrators teach the students every semester.

Economical package of services

Our personalized internship placement, convenient housing option, student activities, and academically creditworthy classes are not only unmatched in Washington, but also come at the lowest cost of all DC programs.

Strong international focus
Over the past decade, more than one-third of our student body has been made up of international students. Students from the U.S. and abroad live and study together, enhancing their growth and promoting cultural understanding.

Substantive opportunities for all majors

WII’s students intern four days per week, full-time, thereby gaining greater professional experience than in other programs.

The “Capital Experience” internship program welcomes all majors and allows students the widest latitude in choosing the internship that best fits their interests. For example, communications majors have interned with media outlets; economics majors have interned with think tanks; pre-law students have interned in the legal system. An elective class complements their internship and makes Washington, DC their classroom.

Our distinctive "Embassy Scholars" internship program gives students an opportunity no one else can match: interning and doing substantive work at a host of international organizations, including foreign embassies, nonprofit organizations and the State Department, while taking a “practical” International Relations course from a retired U.S. diplomat with extensive academic experience.

Our unique “Go Green!” program gives students an opportunity to intern and do meaningful work for entities focusing on environmental issues such as the Environmental Protection Agency and World Wildlife Fund.

For additional information, including sample credit and billing arrangements, please download a copy of WII’s Campus Handbook.

Download Campus Handbook

Affiliating with WII

Although WII accepts students from unaffiliated schools, we encourage your campus to affiliate with WII by completing an Institutional Partnership Agreement. The Agreement outlines the working relationship between WII and your campus.

There is no affiliation fee.

Affiliation provides two major benefits:

1. Affiliation establishes the framework for your students’ participation in WII’s program, creating consistency and preventing your campus from reinventing the wheel each time a student participates in the program.

2. Affiliation permits your campus to publicize the WII experience as its own internship program in Washington, DC. For example, Grinnell College partners with WII to offer “Grinnell-in-Washington.”

We value the opportunity to be your school’s program in the nation’s capital!

Download an Institutional Partnership Agreement