The Graduate Student Experience
You want to help shape the future as well as elevate your career. There’s no home like Georgetown’s Capitol Campus to do both. Here, you’re part of an energetic community of collaborators who work across disciplines to address urgent challenges — blocks away from the nation’s center of influence.
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Only In DC
Watch your professor present a brief in the Supreme Court or deliver expert testimony on Capitol Hill — then discuss it in class. Intern at an NGO or in a Congressional office, visit the C-suite at a Fortune 500 headquarters, mingle with decision-makers at a campus convening. Georgetown’s relationships in the city and on the Hill make DC experiences like these possible.
“I’m from Mexico. DC is the political capital of the world and influences a lot of the discussion in Latin America. So I knew that this was the place to be. History is being made here.”
“I’m part of Georgetown Law’s Juvenile Justice clinic, and every day I represent kids in DC Superior Court, which is just a couple of blocks from campus.”
One of my current professors was the first member of the National Economic Council under President Clinton. To hear his stories is an experience that I wouldn’t get anywhere else.”
An Education for the Future
Today’s urgent issues can’t be solved by working in academic silos. They demand skilled leaders who can collaborate in interdisciplinary teams, bridge divides and turn ideas into action. The Capitol Campus prepares you to be the leader the world needs.
From Hollywood to Tech Policy
The Hollywood Writers’ Strike convinced Matt Steinberg to explore emerging technologies as a force for good. As a student in the interdisciplinary Tech & Public Policy program, he’s exploring the interconnecting threads of AI and labor to find solutions that are both innovative and ethical.
Put Learning Into Action
Experiential learning on the Capitol Campus adds immediacy to what has long been a hallmark of a Georgetown education: Learning that’s grounded in theory, tested in the real world and that leads to action for the common good.
Graduate students are contributing to critical research that studies rivers as a conduit for microplastics. Working with Earth Commons faculty in the field and lab, they’re developing methods for quantifying these substances — and learning valuable skills in this emerging field.
Diana Rivas Garcia was completing a Fulbright fellowship in Mexico when she found a passion for international development. At the McCourt School, she became an active member of the McCourt Student Association and completed an internship in Bogota, Colombia, studying the effects of a UNICEF education program and designing an internationalization strategy for Bogota’s secretary of economic development.
As part of a year-long Human Rights Advocacy in Action practicum, Georgetown Law student Alexis Shanes joined a field investigation in Northern Iraq that aimed to advance the human rights of the Yazidi ethnic group.
More than a dozen students in the Capitol Campus MS in Environment and Sustainability Management program helped major technology and energy companies in Greece address their sustainability challenges. The students’ work as consultants was part of an Earth Commons international partnerships initiative.
Students in the Communications & Technology Law Clinic at Georgetown Law recently spent an immersive semester helping to prepare testimony and oral presentation for the Stop Discrimination in Algorithms Act before the DC Council.