Internships offer students valuable experiance in a real-world setting.Internships can be used to gain academic credit and/or to build up student resumes.

Steps to Obtaining an Internship (PDF)

Complete Guide to Internships (PDF)

For additional information on internships please contact Dr. John Brennan.

Finding an Internship

Below we have listed websites to help find an internship. When searching an organizational website to find internships look for a tab with some of the following labels: Careers, Employment, Join us, Work with _____, Internship.

State and local government

City of Wilmington http://www.wilmingtonnc.gov/

North Carolina state government http://www.ncgov.com/

Legal

Public Defender’s office Directory

District Attorney’s office http://www.nccourts.org/County/DA5.asp

Federal government (Many federal internships pay)

NCIS http://www.ncis.navy.mil/Pages/publicdefault.aspx

Secret Service http://www.secretservice.gov/opportunities_interns.shtml

FBI http://www.fbi.gov/

DIA http://www.dia.mil/careers/

USAID http://www.usaid.gov/

State Department http://careers.state.gov/students/

Internationally focused/NGO
(Important note, some international internships require you to be based in Washington, DC or elsewhere. Remember, this is an investment in your education.)

American Red Cross http://www.redcross.org (These links are to the organizations. We want to link to the internship/jobs page, if possible)
Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org
Ashoka http://www.ashoka.org
Asia Foundation http://www.asiafoundation.org
Asia Society http://www.asiasociety.org
American Refugee Committee http://www.archq.org
American Friends Service Committee http://www.afsc.org
Bread for the World http://www.bread.org
Care http://www.care.org
Carter Center http://www.cartercenter.org
Catholic Relief Services http://www.crs.org
Center for Strategic and International Studies http://csis.org/
Foreign Policy magazine http://www.foreignpolicy.com/
Freedom House http://www.freedomhouse.org
Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org
Heifer International http://www.heifer.org
International Foundation for Election Systems http://www.ifes.org
International Republican Institute http://www.iri.org
International Rivers Network http://www.irn.org
Mercy Corps http://www.mercycorps.org
National Democratic Institute for International Affairs http://www.ndi.org
Nature Conservancy http://www.nature.org
National Wildlife Federation http://www.nwf.org
Open Society Institute http://www.soros.org
Organization of American States http://www.oas.org
Oxfam America http://www.oxfamamerica.org
Research Triangle Institute http://www.rti.org (Raleigh area)
Sierra Club http://www.sierraclub.org
UNICEF http://www.unicef.org
United Nations Association of the USA http://www.unausa.org
United States Institute of Peace http://www.usip.org
World Wildlife Fund http://www.wwf.org