The Wheaton Edge is a dynamic college experience—combining guaranteed access to internship funding with a highly personalized education in the liberal arts and sciences, innovative and interdisciplinary curriculum, and abundant opportunities to engage in and shape the campus community—that prepares students for success after graduation.
The Wheaton Edge is our graduates’ edge in a competitive global market. It helps them find a career path, understand how skills, practice and passion intersect, and develop a network of friends and colleagues who understand their strengths and help them build on them.
The Wheaton Edge is a foundation, a springboard from which students go out into the world confident they can continue learning, solve problems, lead, make a difference, make an impact, create something new, share their ideas and collaborate with all kinds of people who do all kinds of work.
The Wheaton Edge is what the liberal arts and sciences are meant to be: fuel for growth.
Hear in their own words how students spend the break gaining career experience
Check out a few of the funded opportunities students have enjoyed
2018, Business and Management
Keefe Family Foundation Business Fellowship
Brockton Rox, Brockton, MA
This experience impacted my career development because it showed me a preview of what my potential career could be within the sports management sector. I was hoping that after this internship had concluded that I would be in a position where I would feel excited to move into my real career based off of my positive experience this summer and that is exactly what happened.
2018, Urban Studies, African, African American, Diaspora Studies
Porter Cleveland Fellowship
The Cleveland Leadership Center, Cleveland, OH
My experiences with The Cleveland Leadership Center affirmed for me my love of urban spaces and social equity. Through this internship I realized that I want to continue to study urban planning at the graduate level.
2019, Neuroscience
Mars Fellowship for Career Exploration
Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA
My internship at Boston Medical Center allowed me to confirm my aspirations of becoming a doctor. I was finally able to submerge myself in the healthcare field and get so much hands-on experience. The most rewarding part of working at BMC was being able to interact with the pediatric patients and assist in their care.
2019, Biochemistry, Computer Science
Merit Scholarship
Wheaton College, Department of Chemistry, Norton, MA
This experience gives me a great opportunity to see how computer science and natural science can be connected to improve efficiency in the process of data analysis in scientific research.
