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The Washington Center requires that students earn academic credit. This credit is granted not by The Washington Center, but by the student’s home institution. The Washington Center provides professional supervision and evaluation of the students’ work (in the form of written evaluations and suggested grades), but the college or university retains full academic control. It determines which students may attend our program, and the types and amounts of credit—as well as the grades—they receive.

To enable student participation during the semester, an institution should put together a package of credits that will allow students to retain full-time status and thus receive full financial aid and other considerations.

• Credit packages vary widely among affiliated institutions; two common ones are shown below.
• Some institutions choose to fold credit granted for the internship, academic course and the Leadership Forum (or any combination of those three) into one large block.
• Others institutions layer an additional requirement on top of those of The Washington Center (see models below).
• Many affiliates also find it helpful to create a specific course or set of courses for which The Washington Center’s participants register.