The Washington Center provides a turnkey solution that enables your organization to develop early career talent through high-quality internships. 

Build an early-career talent pipeline with a high-quality internship program, without the operational and administrative barriers.   

The Washington Center (TWC) delivers end-to-end solutions, including nationwide student recruitment, logistics management, professional development for students and outcomes measurement.

When you partner with TWC, you gain more than 50 years of expertise in managing high-impact internship programs —and qualified internship candidates from across the country, ready to focus on your organization full-time for a semester or summer term.    

End-to-end coordination of recruitment, onboarding, logistics, and performance measurement, reducing the administrative burden for your team.

Pre-screened, qualified students recruited from hundreds of higher ed partners across the nation, who have been prepared for success through TWC’s mandatory career counseling.  

Expert guidance on internship design plus coordination with university partners for academic credit requirements.

Tools and frameworks for onboarding, vetting candidates, evaluation and feedback — making it easy to operationalize a high-quality internship.

Student support and guidance, travel and housing coordination, and workshops focusing on professional competencies, such as communications, problem-solving and AI literacy for work.

Internships translate into a pipeline of proven talent for current needs and future hires, reducing recruitment costs and improving retention rates.

Interns bring fresh perspectives and new tech skills, leading to innovative solutions and process improvements. 

Positive internship experiences turn students into brand ambassadors, making your organization attractive to a new generation of talent nationwide. 

TWC delivers actionable data that demonstrates the impact of your internship program, including career-readiness skills, supervisor satisfaction, and program outcomes.

Virtual or in-person meeting with TWC Employer Relations to review your organization’s needs. We can co-design the internship scope, objectives, and supervision model with your team.

TWC provides expert guidance to craft an effective internship description and identify the key qualities an intern needs to succeed in your organization.

You receive applications directly through TWC’s employer portal, InternConnect, from our pre-qualified, vetted candidates, and you choose who to interview. Your dedicated employer relations manager will guide you throughout the interview and selection process. 

You’ll get a step-by-step playbook for onboarding your interns, assigning meaningful work and tracking progress. TWC is with you every step of the way.

TWC’s wraparound student services ensure your intern is set up for a successful, meaningful experience. We provide support and personalized guidance to each intern and provide safe housing at our furnished Residential Academic Facility in NoMA. 

TWC measures interns’ proficiency in key career-readiness skills as they complete mandatory professional competency workshops. Program-level metrics are gathered through a structured feedback process with supervisors through the NACE competencies framework.

June 1 – July 31

August 31 – December 4

Employer Review & Interview Applicants 

March 30 – April 10

Target to Secure Intern
April 17 – May 1

TWC interns are working in these industries

Internship Modality

46%

Nonprofit

36%

Business

80%

in-person or hybrid

8%

Federal Government

20%

3%

virtual

Capitol Hill

3%

Foundation

1%

Corporation

1%

Other

They came from

3.58

25

310

The average GPA of
our incoming students

Participants in summer 2025

different U.S. states and territories

Top Areas of Academic Study

5%

Business, Finance, Accounting, HR

7%

Communications, Journalism, Marketing

6%

Computer Science, Information Tech

12%

Criminal Justice, Law, Cyber, Forensics

7%

International Relations

45%

History, Political Science, Public Administration

9%

Health, Psychology, Sociology, Social Work

10%

Other

First-Generation 

College Students

28%

90%

100

Interns attended more than 

of our interns are Juniors and Seniors

different college and universities

Monica Ipong
Director of Global Leader University Recruiting at CrowdStrike

Adam Kemerer
Director of Communications at Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth

Kyle Carmean

Assistant News Director at FOX5 WTTG

Clay Helton
Senior Manager of Global Government Affairs at Kraft Heinz 

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