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Internships
To ensure that
students have the opportunity to apply what they have learned in
the classroom to the real world, as well as to develop a basis for
their major policy research paper, the School requires that MPP
candidates participate in a 400-hour field internship with a government
agency, nonprofit group, private firm, or other organization on
the approved list of fieldwork placements.
The potential
for internships is limited only by the interests of students, who
can draw on the extensive opportunities of the Los Angeles region
and on the diverse interests of the faculty, Senior Fellows, and
the School's research centers. While many students complete internships
in Southern California, Sacramento, and the San Francisco area,
opportunities also are available nationwide--particularly in Washington,
D.C.--and overseas. Students have interned with:
- United Nations
Development Programme, Viet Nam
- U.S. Department
of State, Malawi
- U.S. Embassy,
Cairo, Egypt
- Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), The White House
- Center on
Budget and Policy Priorities, Washington, D.C.
- U.S. Department
of Education
- U.S. Department
of Treasury
- U.S. General
Accounting Office (GAO), Seattle, WA
- Alameda County
Board of Supervisors
- International
Business Council for Sustainable Development, Austin, TX
- California
Legislative Analyst's Office, Sacramento, CA
- CBS News,
New York City
- Broadcast
Standards and Practices Department, 20th Century Fox Broadcasting
Co.
- Culver City
Transportation Department
- Motorola,
Inc.
- Los Angeles
City Council
- Los Angeles
Cultural Affairs Department
- Greenlining
Institute
- PriceWaterhouseCoopers
Other students
have interned with organizations that deal with health care, nonprofit
funding, municipal fiscal policy and local government, child care,
cultural policy, school violence, the international criminal justice
system, emergency and disaster relief, and transportation policy.
The School's
Career Services Coordinator works with MPP students to identify
the internships that best match their interests and goals. Examples
of internship opportunities can be found here.
Students entering the MPP program with substantial prior experience—defined
as a minimum of two years of full-time work in a policy making government
agency at the local, state, national, or international level—may
petition for a waiver of the internship requirement. (The research
paper requirement cannot be waived.) Experience with the private
or nonprofit sector usually will not count toward a waiver. Petitions
will be considered case-by-case.
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