Academic Life
At Georgetown, education means more than absorbing knowledge. With your professors as mentors, you’ll learn to ask challenging questions, think as a global citizen and collaborate with people outside your field. You’ll graduate ready to shape our future — and yours.
“Beyond offering a world-class education, Georgetown stood out as a changemaker, a place where students dare to try and are not deterred by failure.”
“Georgetown helped pave the way for my interests and passions, which led to my internships and my first job.”
“Being at Georgetown has afforded me the ability to be so close to the institutions I cover. To be able to race to the White House on the same day I’m taking a class.”
Areas of Study
Explore technology’s implications for society. Focus on the environment. Study public policy steps from the Capitol. Our undergraduate and graduate offerings span 11 schools and every field.
An Interdisciplinary Lens
You’ll have opportunities to study across disciplines at Georgetown — to look at issues through several lenses and learn new ways of thinking that are needed to solve today’s complex problems. As an undergraduate, you can even shape your own interdisciplinary curriculum.
The DC Advantage
Studying in the nation’s capital gives you access to learning experiences you won’t find elsewhere. One example: graduate students studying diplomacy dine with ambassadors at their embassy, offering a rare window into the world of off-the-record diplomacy.
Learning Experiences
Whether you land a congressional “Hillternship,” partner with a professor on a research project or work with DC school children, real-world experiences will be a significant part of your Georgetown education.
Political internships are an obvious choice for Georgetown students, and many add stints to their resume. But DC is much more than politics. It’s a hub for NGOs and nonprofits, Fortune 500s and tech start-ups, media and culture.
Georgetown is known as a student-centric research university. This means that even as an undergraduate, you’ll have opportunities — some with fellowships attached — to work in the lab or the field and participate in projects that may have a major impact on the world.
Georgetown’s relationships with DC’s community-based nonprofits and city government open many doors for you to get involved locally. Tutor DC youth, advocate for immigrants, work on climate justice … Whatever you do, you’ll gain crucial skills and new perspectives.
Fifty-seven countries host Georgetown undergraduate and graduate students who are involved in programs ranging from language and cultural immersion to trips focused on service, a field of study or a contemporary topic.
Graduate students in law, medicine and marketing get valuable experience by offering their services to real clients through clinics and pro-bono work. Georgetown Law has the nation’s largest and oldest in-house clinical program.
A Downtown Experience
Every semester, a fresh batch of undergraduate students heads downtown to live and work. The CALL program is an opportunity to experience a more independent style of living on Georgetown’s Capitol Campus while interning nearby. It’s transformative.
Our Achievements
Thirty-seven Hoyas were named Fulbright scholars in 23 countries in the last year. Meet three Fulbright student scholars currently abroad.
Georgetown students swept the Big East Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium, winning the top three prizes at the research showcase at Madison Square Garden on March 15.