We believe every Ohio Wesleyan student should be equipped with the skills to make informed career choices, develop essential competencies, and confidently navigate their future. Completing an internship is a pivotal step in a student's OWU career journey!
Career Connection will work with you to help you secure options that match your skills and interests to the right workplace, locally, nationally, or internationally. Interns serve different functions in different settings, and what you bring to the table will be as important as what you'll take away. No matter what your interest or major, there's likely a valuable internship for you through The OWU Connection.
Career Connection offers individual support in each of these steps. Please schedule a meeting with a Career Catalyst Here.
Spend an exciting semester in the art capital of the world. You'll have an on-the-job experience with NYC professionals in various artistic fields. If you're in an arts-related major, you can gain experience to put your major to work in the real world.
Recently, OWU students have interned with the New York Shakespeare Festival, Dance Magazine, Broadway productions, sci-fi and fantasy book publisher DAW Books, the Strasburg Institute for acting, and with artists and other arts organizations.
The Wesleyan in Washington Program is an intensive, full-time internship experience. The program builds on your classroom study by matching you with an internship that reflects your interests and professional goals. We want you to have not only an important internship, but also a broad and meaningful Washington experience.
Wesleyan in Washington is designed to open doors to the Washington, D.C., policy community in ways that are unique and will contribute to your immediate educational growth and long-term professional success, whether in the public or private sector. We help arrange for your participation in a multitude of Washington, D.C., activities that allow you to take full advantage of being in the city.
Emily Feldmesser '16 interned at The Brookings Institution, a policy think tank in D.C.
Rachel Spotts ’17 completed multiple internships in Austin, Texas, including one with a nonprofit organization promoting bicycle and pedestrian safety.
Internships at the Ohio Wildlife Center and Columbus Zoo helped Karis Lowrie '18 land a job at the Ohio Wildlife Center.
Mac Willard '18 spent a summer working as Personal Intern to fashion editor Caroline Vazzana.
Christopher Shanley '18 interned at Northwestern University where he worked on the curation of digitized texts from the Renaissance.
Cindy Huynh ’19 completed an internship with the Galileo Innovation Summer Camp in Culver City, California. During her time at camp, Huynh set up the campsite, worked in the office, and assisted instructors in the classroom.
Leslie Alton ’17 completed an internship with the Center for Companies that Care in Chicago, Illinois, working with high schoolers in the Chicago Public Schools system to help them apply to and eventually graduate from college.
