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Student Opportunities

Whether gaining invaluable work experience or networking with industry leaders when they visit campus, students in the Washington College Warehime School of Business have incredible opportunities open to them unavailable anywhere else.

Student Opportunities

 

Experiential Learning

Essential to the Warehime School experience and supported through a variety of funded and structured opportunities, hands-on learning through internships, indepedent study, and entrepreneurial activities help all Warehime students graduate with practical skills and clear ideas about where they want to take their career.

an intern and supervisor at TIAA

Get Vital Work Experience

  • Participate in an internship in Washington, D.C. through The Washington Center. Depending on your placement, you could attend hearings, conduct policy research, draft correspondence, monitor legislation, lobby members of Congress, or write analytical reports.  
  • Compete for an internship in the U.S. State Department. Our students have secured internships at U.S. Embassies across the world.  
  • Language skills are useful at home and abroad. Secure an internship internationally, in Washington, D.C., or at a local nonprofit, giving back to your community. 
  • Arrange your own internship experience through your own connections, or by tapping into the extensive network of the Center for Career Development.  
  • Work for the Department of Business Management or other teams on campus as a student worker.  
  • Participate in career fairs to explore internship and career opportunities.  
  • Receive funding to support travel, housing, etc. during internships.  
     
a Washington student with a bottle of the olive oil they sell in their start up

Conduct Research and Launch a Business

  • Complete a Senior Capstone Experience (SCE), a year-long independent research project in the form of a thesis. Your SCE topic should overlap with your other areas of interest and be something you're passionate about, like a simulation, literary critique, development of a product, or arguing the intrinsic value of something.
  • Assist faculty in their research as a Warehime Research Fellow. Funding is available to fellows. Research done as a Warehime fellow could be used as part of an SCE project or could lead to a published case study.  
  • Visit with working professionals like journalists, political activists, foreign policy analysts, diplomats, military commanders, and government officials of national and international stature through the Goldstein Program in Public Affairs.  
  • Attend conferences, like the American Association of Colleges and Universities Conference on Global Learning, the American Marketing Association conference, Quinnipiac GAME Forum, the Student Symposium sponsored by the Center for the Study of the Presidency and the West Point Student Conference on United States Affairs (SCUSA), and the Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN), designed for women, as well as others specific to your interests.
  • Create your own research project. Support, financial or otherwise, is available across campus, including through the Hodson Collaborative Research Program or the Cater Society for Junior Fellows for all students. Business majors may also be able to access support from the Warehime Fund for Student Excellence in Business.

 

 

a student meets the keynote speaker at a business department dinner

Network with Visiting Leaders

Learn from high achievers and make connections before gradutation

Whether through annual events like the James C. Jones Seminar in American Business or special opportunities that bring leading business and international experts to campus, students at Washington College often have the chance to speak directly with leading professionals in the fields that interest them. In addition to public lectures, visiting leaders often speak with small groups of students in classes, receptions, or other settings.

 

students in the office of the Japan Foundation

Benefit from Unique (& Fun!) Educational Opportunities

Washington College offers many courses and ways to learn you won't find anywhere else. Short-term study abroad trips, usually two weeks long, are a regular offering from certain areas, including business management and international studies. Language learning can be tailored to your goals, ranging from majors and minors to micro-credentials requiring fewers courses. There are often funds available to help subsidize the cost of travel, such as the Bennett Endowment for International Studies students.

students working together in the IDEAworks makerspace

Collaborate with Peers

Creating a business is often about bringing something new to the market. Use the resources of our IDEAworks makerspace and work together with fellow members of student clubs like the Makers Union to design and prototype your concepts. There are also student organizations dedicated to language and culture, economics and private markets, and even the joint club/class that manages the $2.5 million Brown Advisory Investment Fund on behalf of the College.

The 2026 inductees to the Washington College chapter of Omicron Delta Kappa

Join Lifelong Honor Societies

Every major within the Washington College Warehime School of Business has an honor society for its high-achieving students, and two honor societies are open to all extraordinary students in any field: Phi Beta Kappa, for students of exceptional academic achievement in liberal studies, and Omicron Delta Kappa, recognizing the College's most outstanding student leaders.