Three or four credits are awarded for each internship. Although one internship credit is worth a minimum of thirty hours of work , most students exceed the required number of hours and work twelve to fifteen hours per week during a semester or twenty to forty hours per week during the summer months. Students may earn up to eight internship credits while at Goucher. Credit earned for a Summer or January internship is in addition to the 33 credit limit acquired during the fall and spring semesters. All majors, such as computer Science, Management, English, International and Intercultural Studies, Politics and Public Policy, Psychology, Theatre and others, are included in the Internship Program.
Graduates consistently praise the role internships played in their career choices.
More than half of the alumni in the classes from 1986 through 1990, in response to surveys completed five years after graduation, credit their career attained to Goucher internships. Before they finish their studies, most Goucher students have completed at least one internship. In academic year 1996-97, students completed close to 200 internships. Many of these experiences were in Maryland and Washington, D.C., but others stretched to Hawaii, California, Tennessee, New York, and beyond the United States to Israel,Croatia, Poland, Belgium, and England. International Internships Students from the United States seek internships abroad.