All students in the BSIW Program are placed in a full-time internship in the Washington, DC metropolitan area through the combined efforts of the student and the Stanford in Washington staff and faculty.
Internship credit
If you’d like to receive academic credit for your internship you may enroll in a directed reading. Stanford does not automatically give credit for participating in an internship. Some majors – such as Human Biology and Earth Systems – have their own processes for awarding credit for internships. If you are not a Human Biology or Earth Systems major or you do not qualify for their internship credit, you can enroll in a directed reading and focus your research on an aspect of your internship or on a subject you studied in your internship.
Internship deadlines
Please note that some internship application deadlines – such as those for positions at the White House and the Department of State – may fall before the BSIW Program’s application deadline. If you are interested in an internship with one of those organizations, you must meet all application deadlines for that internship, in addition to completing the BSIW Program application on time. The BSIW Program is unable to place students directly at the State Department or the White House, students must apply separately.
Past Internships Include:
This list is a representative sample of past Bing Stanford in Washington Program Internships. Students are individually placed in internships based on their interests and are not limited to locations on this list.
- World Bank
- John Snowe, Inc.
- Office of Senator Ron Wyden
- Government Accountability Office
- Department of Justice
- Office of Management and Budget
- Office of Senator Max Baucus
- Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights
- National Women’s Law Center
- Department of State
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Millennium Challenge Corporation
- Office of Representative Adam Schiff
- Department of Treasury
- Department of Education
- Middle East Institute
- Office of Representative Edward Markey
- The Phillips Collection
- Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
- National Institutes of Health
- The National Portrait Gallery
- Office of Senator Lisa Murkowski
- Natural Resources Defense Council
- Population Services International
- American History Museum
- Center for Ecotourism and Sustainable Development
- National Endowment for Democracy
- Center for Global Development
- Urban Institute
- Center for Strategic and International Studies
- D.C. Superior Court
- Center for Victims of Torture
- Center for a New American Security
- Office of Senator Olympia Snowe
- World Wildlife Fund
- Office of Representative Kevin McCarthy
- National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy
- Human Rights Watch
- National Endowment for the Arts
- Office of Senator Richard Lugar
- U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission
- International Rescue Committee
- Democratic National Committee
- National Democratic Institute
- Office of Senator Charles Schumer
- Center for the Study of the Presidency
- Federal Communications Commission
- Environmental Defense Fund
- Federation of American Scientists
- Office of the Surgeon General
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Center for American Progress
- Wilson Center
- Smithsonian Magazine
- Securities and Exchange Commission
- Department of Energy
- American Enterprise Institute
