As you search for internships, practicums, and postgraduate opportunities, the University of Illinois and the MSGS program has several resources to support you including the program advisor.
When we support your career development and goals, we will tap the large alumni network of Illinois graduates from the Center for Global Studies, Program in Arms Control, Domestic, and International Security, and Center for the Study of Global Gender Equity. Alumni work in organizations such as the following:
- Booz Allen & Hamilton
- Casa Immigration in Chicago
- CDM Smith
- Center for Arms Control and Nonproliferation in Washington
- Center for Intercultural Communication
- Center for Microfinance and Enterprise Development
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Inter-American Development Bank
- International Rescue
- International Union of Forest Research Organizations
- One Hope
- PS Collective
- Reaching Across Borders
- Refugee Council USA
- RMIT University
- Rural Progress
- Sandia National Laboratory
- The World Bank
- Tokushima University
- U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants
- UNICEF
- University of Illinois
More broadly, the University of Illinois Career Center works with students to assist in internship and career placement through the national Handshake network that places students in contact with both paid and unpaid internship opportunities within their areas of interest. The Career Center also can help students with applications, resumes, CVs, internship and job and internship search strategies, pursuing further education, and much more.