AEI Fall 2025 Internship Program

The American Enterprise Institute's internships give students an opportunity to learn directly from some of America's most renowned scholars and nonprofit leaders who are advancing the conversation on today's prominent public policy issues. AEI provides an intellectually stimulating environment, rich with critical thinking, scholarship, and lively debate. AEI offers more than 40 internship opportunities in its research and business groups, including:

The American Enterprise Institute is a community of scholars and supporters committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity and strengthening free enterprise. AEI pursues these unchanging ideals through independent thinking, open debate, reasoned argument, facts and the highest standards of research and exposition. Without regard for politics or prevailing fashion, we dedicate our work to a more prosperous, safer and more democratic nation and world. AEI is a private, nonpartisan, not-for-profit institution dedicated to research and education on issues of government, politics, economics and social welfare. AEI's purpose is to serve leaders and the public through research and education on the most important issues of the day. AEI research is conducted through seven primary research divisions: Economics, Foreign and Defense Policy, Politics and Public Opinion, Education, Health, Energy and the Environment and Society and Culture.