Financial Assistance:

The Washington Center and CFGU are working hard to make this program affordable for the students who can not afford to participate due to financial need. After all, more than 75 percent of the TWC interns receive some form of financial assistance.

For some students, the cost of participation is comparable to what they pay at their home institutions. For others, the cost is higher, but still within reach and exceptionally reasonable for a once-in-a-lifetime experience of this type in the nation's capital.

The Washington Center has arrangements with various universities, states and private funders such as:

• University Arrangements:
  Students attending The Washington Center earn academic credit from their college or university for their internships. Students are therefore eligible to receive their usual federal and state financial aid up to the cost of attendance through the institution granting the credit if their own resources are not sufficient to cover the cost of attendance.
• State and Commonwealth Funding:
  Some states or commonwealths provide assistance to qualifying students attending The Washington Center . For current eligibility criteria and amounts of assistance, please see the links below. Support may be subject in some cases to final budget approval.
• Private Funding:
  The Washington Center is able to offer selected students assistance from a number of private sources including CFGU.

To find out what assistance you might qualify for, review the entire section on financial assistance, contact your institution's Washington Center campus liaison, or contact TWC at cfgu@twc.edu