Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Internships

Sociology majors at HWS have interned with prominent organizations from across the country, including:

• American Jewish Committee – NYC and Washington, DC
• Big Brothers Big Sisters – Rochester, NY
• Boston Design Center – Boston, MA
• Center for American Progress – Washington, DC
• Congressman Brian Higgins – Washington, DC
• District Attorney’s Office – Syracuse, NY
• Eye to Eye National – New York, NY
• Family Counseling Service of the Finger Lakes – Geneva, NY
• Fidelity Investments Brokerage- Merrimack, NH
• Finger Lakes Health – Geneva, NY
• Fund for Education Abroad – Washington, DC
• Geneva Police Department – Geneva, NY
• Girl Scout Council of the Nation’s Capital – Washington, D.C.
• Guggenheim Museum – New York, NY
• Habitat for Humanity – Maputo, Mozambique
• Harvard Business Publishing – Boston, MA
• IgnitionOne – London, England
• International Rescue Committee
• Lancaster Cultural Museum – Lancaster, PA
• Legal Assistance of the Finger Lakes – Geneva, NY
• Life After Justice – Chicago, IL
• Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. – San Francisco, CA
• National Women’s Hall of Fame. – Seneca Falls, NY
• New York City Board of Education – New York, NY
• NY Six Liberal Arts Consortium
• Nova Group – Japan
• Paramount Pictures – Hollywood, CA
• Partnership for Public Service
• PeopleFluent – Waltham, MA
• Petrified Forest National Park – Holbrook, AZ
• Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN)
• Sen. Edward Kennedy’s Office – Boston, MA
• Shelburne Museum – Burlington, VT
• Underground Railroad History Project (URHPCR) – Albany, NY
• UniversalGiving – San Francisco, CA
• University of New Hampshire – Durham, NH
• U.S. Dept. of Agriculture – Washington, DC
• Zoomari Films – New York, NY

Careers

Many of our Sociology graduates have gone on to work in politics, government, journalism, nonprofit organizations and education. A recent sampling of organizations graduates have accepted positions with include:

• American Museum in Britain
• Buffalo Bills
• Eastman Kodak Company
• Houghton Mifflin Publishers
• IBM
• Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
• Microsoft
• The Museum of Modern Art
• New York Magazine
• World Health Organization
• Yale University

Graduate School

Some graduates go on to graduate school in sociology, while others go on to earn business and law degrees. A sampling of recent graduate school placements include:

• Boston College of Social Work
• Case Western University School of Law
• Columbia University
• Indiana University
• Pace University Law School
• Rutgers University
• Simmons College
• Syracuse University
• UMass Amherst
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Utah Law School