One of the exciting features of our Master in Public Affairs (MPA) program is a 10-week-long summer internship during the summer between the first-and-second-year of our two-year program. Each student is required to intern at a professional level for an agency or organization that is relevant to their course of study and career interests. 

Our 67 first-year MPA students will conclude their first-year requirements with summer positions all over the world with U.S and Foreign governments, international organizations, non-profits and NGOs.

Here are some of the exciting organizations our students will be interning at this summer:

• European Bank for Reconstruction & Development (EBRD), London, UK

• U.S. Department of State, U.S. Embassy, Paris, France [Rangel Fellow]

• U.S. Department of Defense, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Washington, DC

• UNDP, Suva, Fiji

• UNICEF, New York, NY

• U.S. Mission to NATO, Defense Plans, Brussels, Belgium

• World Bank, Washington, DC

• Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center, McLean, VA

• The Ford Foundation, New Delhi, India

• Innovations for Poverty Action, Ganta, Liberia

• World Economic Forum, Geneva, Switzerland (Duke Geneva Program)

• Millennium Challenge Corporation, Lusaka, Zambia

• U.S. Office of Management & Budget, Washington, DC

• Philadelphia Mayor’s Office of Community Empowerment & Opportunity, Philadelphia, PA

• White House, Domestic Policy Council, Washington, DC

• New York City Public Advocate’s Office, New York, NY

• National Immigration Law Center, Washington, DC

• Uncommon Schools, [Education Pioneers], New York, NY

• U.S. Department of the Treasury, IA, Washington, DC

• Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD), Paris, France

• World Bank, Bangkok, Thailand

• UN Economic Commission for Europe, Geneva, Switzerland (Duke Geneva Program)

• UN South Centre, Geneva, Switzerland (Duke Geneva Program)