One of the most valuable aspects of earning an English degree from Wheeling Jesuit University is the opportunity for on-the-job learning. The time you spend in classes at Wheeling Jesuit is very beneficial, but at the same time, we recognize the many other ways of helping students learn through outside resources such as internships.

When you take what you learn in the classroom and apply it to real life, you are getting a truly dynamic education. Outside learning helps you connect what you read in books and learn from professors with what you'll be doing after graduation. Internships take the abstract and make it tangible.

Plus, many graduates accept job offers where they interned as students. In fact, most English majors secure jobs before they graduate from Wheeling Jesuit. Others go on to further their education in graduate school.

Past English majors have experienced a great variety of internships that demonstrate the versatility of the program. Examples of the types of work available to English majors include:

• advertising,
• broadcast writing,
• radio,
• television,
• grant writing,
• Web authoring,
• technical and scientific writing, and
• journalism.

Places of employment that have accepted Wheeling Jesuit interns in the past include:

• The Good Zoo,
• HGO Technology,
• Ohio Valley Medical Center,
• Wheeling Clinic,
• Carnegie Mellon University,
• WWVA-AM,
• National Technology Transfer Center,
• Center for Educational Technology,
• Gutman Advertising,
• Sexual Assault Help Center,
• Wheeling Jesuit Campus Ministry,
• Oglebay Park,
• YWCA,
• Faith Ranch,
• Catholic Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston,
• WEGW-Eagle 102.5, and
• Easter Seals.