Internships
Internships offer students valuable experience in a real-world setting. Internships can be used to gain academic credit and/or to build up student resumes.
Internship Information
For additional information on internships please contact internship coordinator Dr. Jennifer Horan.
For career assistance (questions related to resumes, cover letters, interviews, etc.) please contact PIA career liaison Leslie Wright.
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
Federal Government
(Many of Federal Government Internships are paid)
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
- Amnesty International
- Ashoka
- Asia Foundation
- Asia Society
- American Friends Service Committee
- Bread for the World
- Care
- Carter Center
- Catholic Relief Services
- Center for Strategic and International Studies
- Foreign Policy magazine
- Freedom House
- Human Rights Watch
- Heifer International
- International Foundation for Election Systems
- International Republican Institute
- International Rivers Network
- Mercy Corps
- National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
- Nature Conservancy
- National Wildlife Federation
- Open Society Institute
- Organization of American States
- Oxfam America
- Research Triangle Institute (Raleigh area)
- Sierra Club
- UNICEF
- United Nations Association of the USA
- United States Institute of Peace
- World Wildlife Fund
Job Boards
Internship Aggregation sites
Course Descriptions
The Department of Public and International Affairs Course Descriptions
Undergraduate Catalogue
Please see the University's Undergraduate Catalogue for additional information.