Graduate Career Development

The Presidential Management Fellows (PMF) program is a two-year, post-graduate leadership-development initiative open to graduate students and alumni. The application process begins in the fall of your final year of graduate school, at which time you will be notified whether you have been accepted and how to proceed. Every year, several Elliott School students are selected as PMF finalists.

GSS is available to assist semi-finalists and finalists throughout the process.

Please visit the PMF website for more information. 

The Elliott School strongly encourages students to integrate their studies with practical international internship experiences. To help with this goal, GSS offers a limited number of competitive grants for Elliott School graduate students participating in unpaid or low-pay international internships. Currently enrolled Elliott School graduate students may seek an International Internship Grant via the online application. 

These grants are designed to help defray the costs of an international internship, not to fully fund the experience. Students are encouraged to research outside funding sources before submitting a grant proposal.

Guidelines:

You must have secured an internship or have started an internship at an organization that offers substantial opportunities directly related to your degree program and specialty.

Your internship must require at least 30 hours per week for a  minimum of 10 weeks.

You must be a currently enrolled Elliott School graduate student, planning to enroll the following semester after completing the internship, and have a cumumlative GPA of 3.0 or higher.

International students are eligible to apply, but the internship cannot be located in your home country or within the U.S.

The internship cannot be located in a country in which you have citizenship or foreign national status.

Application Requirements:

Only completed applications will be accepted; we will not consider your application unless you carefully complete the application steps, which include:

• Application Summary
• Basic personal and internship information
• Current Resume
• Completed and signed Internship Employer/Mentor Form
• Faculty Support Form completed and signed by a GW faculty member
• Interest Essay (500 words maximum)
• Completed Personal Budget form including alternative sources of funding
• Copy of most recent GW transcript (printable from the web; unofficial copies are accepted)
   

Please email Patrick Murphy at [email protected] for more information. 

GSS manages the Freeman Foundation Grant for internships in East or Southeast Asia. 

This grant awards up to $6,550 to a student completing an unpaid or low-paying internship in the following countries:

• Cambodia
• China
• Indonesia
• Hong Kong
• Japan
• Laos
• Macau
• Malaysia
• Mongolia
• Myanmar
• The Phillipines
• Singapore 
• South Korea
• Taiwan
• Thailand
• Timor-Leste
• Vietnam

Eligibility Requirements:

• You must have secured or started an internship in East Asia and/or Southeast Asia at an organization that offers substantial opportunities directly related to your degree and speciality.
• Your internship must require at least 20 hours per week for a minimum of 10 weeks.
• You must be a currently enrolled Elliott School graduate student and have a cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher.
• International students are eligible to apply, but the internship cannot be located in the U.S. or in their country of origin.

Application Requirements:

Your application must include the following items:

• Completed Fellowship Grant Application Sheet
• Current resume
• Interest Essay (500 words maximum)
• Completed Internship Employer/Mentor Form (with a wet signature)
• Faculty Support Form completed and signed by a GW faculty member (with a wet signature)
• Copy of most recent GW transcript (printable from the web; unofficial copies accepted)

Selection Process: 

Grant applications will be reviewed on the following criteria:

• Quality and relevance of proposed internship to current and/or future career plans
• Academic record at the Elliott School
• Quality of interest essay
• Quality and professionalism of the entire grant application

To apply, please go to go.gwu.edu/freeman. 

If you have any questions, please e-mail Patrick Murphy at [email protected].