Personalized Learning & Internship Programs

What is The Wheaton Edge?

The Wheaton Edge is a dynamic college experience that prepares students for success after graduation. It combines 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.

The Wheaton Edge is our graduates’ edge in a competitive global market. It’s a foundation that 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 what the liberal arts and sciences are meant to be: fuel for growth.

Breaking down The Wheaton Edge

Take a closer look at the key components of the advantage that Wheaton offers every student.

Leadership experience

Wheaton believes in the idea that students should play a lead role in shaping campus life. What's more, we believe that students learn a lot, and accomplish more, when they are empowered to be leaders.

Innovative programs

Wheaton is constantly pushing forward, exploring new possibilities and offering new opportunities and programs for our students. The world doesn't stand still and neither do we.

Personalized education

At Wheaton, we subscribe to the idea that every student's interests are unique and we strive to help every person follow their own path.

Internships

Wheaton excels in providing myriad opportunities to put learning into action—through internships, research collaborations, independent projects and more. The limit? Your imagination.

Opportunities to shape the campus community

100+ student-run clubs and activities created and maintained by students
An active Student Government Association run by a Student Senate comprising 15 elected student representatives
18 theme houses designed and run by students, where they live together around common interests
21 NCAA Division III athletic teams
13 club sports, plus intramural teams
Campus employment opportunities that provide engaging learning experiences as well as a paycheck
Programs committed to promoting diversity, inclusion and global awareness, including the Marshall Center for Intercultural Learning, Global Leadership Development Group and invested student organization

Innovative and interdisciplinary curriculum

Wheaton is constantly pushing forward, exploring new possibilities and offering new opportunities and programs for our students. The world doesn't stand still and neither do we.

Multi-course Connections program explores related subjects through different disciplines and perspectives
First-Year Seminar introduces students to the college experience through a small course focused heavily on discussion, delving into complex, often controversial ideas
100+ study abroad programs in 45 locations around the world
Faculty-led short-term study abroad trips over winter and summer break
Domestic study-away programs at locations here in the U.S.
A growing network of high-tech and traditional creative spaces for learning and independent research
Support for innovative business development through the WiN Hub and Social Entrepreneurship Launchpad Program

Highly personalized education

At Wheaton, we subscribe to the idea that every student's interests are unique and we strive to help every person follow their own path.

11:1 faculty-student ratio, and talented, very engaged faculty that teach, advise and partner with students on projects of all subjects and scopes
Innovative and collaborative faculty-led initiatives such as the Contemplative Studies Initiative, InterMedia Arts Group Innovation Network, Lexomics, Summit for Women in STEM and Wheaton Institute for the Interdisciplinary Humanities
Support and guidance in creating independent majors
Dual-degree programs with partner institutions in engineering, integrated marketing, religion, optometry and business
Preparatory advising for graduate programs in architecture, communications, law, management, medicine and teaching

Guaranteed access to internship funding

Wheaton excels in providing myriad opportunities to put learning into action—through internships, research collaborations, independent projects and more. The limit? Your imagination.

$1.2 million invested by the college annually in internships, research projects and other experiential learning opportunities
Winternship program specifically provides funding for internships over winter break
New Junior Summer Stipend program helps ensure students will have a funded internship before the start of their senior year
Personalized career and advising support through the Filene Center for Academic Advising and Career Services
Our ideal location within three major cities (a half hour to both Boston and Providence and a short train ride to New York City) provides close connections to organizations of all types and sizes

A sample of recent places where Wheaton students have interned

Smithsonian Institute

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Viacom

The White House

A wealth of opportunities

97%

Success rate for graduates

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51%

of students study abroad

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25%

of students intern or do research while abroad

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Internship highlights

Hear in their own words how students spend the break gaining career experience

Rachel Crafford '20 and Jennifer Loveland-Rose '20
Arielle Klopsis '18
Mary Sasso '18
William Funk '18

Featured internships

Check out a few of the funded opportunities students have enjoyed