A Real-World Education

The majority of our students study abroad, intern, have alumni mentors, or do independent research. Fundamental to your Lake Forest education are opportunities to engage the real world. Our career advancement center works with you from your first semester on campus to prepare you for life after Lake Forest. You can see below examples of where Lake Forest students have cultivated professional networks and traveled the world.

Recent Internship Sites American Embassy in Athens ABC News 7 Chicago Botanic Garden 19th Circuit Court System American Cancer Society Chicago Sun-Times Kohl Children's Museum Lookingglass Theatre Company New Mexico Department of Indian Affairs Chicago Public Radio Great Lakes Naval Base International Montessori School in Brussels Rolling Stone Lake Street Church Evanston Equestrian Sport Productions Chicago Council on Global Affairs Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio Make-A-Wish Foundation Kemper Sports	Northwestern Mutual Chicago Fire Soccer MTV Chicago/VH1 Evanston Art Center Chicago Field Museum Morgan Stanley Bloodshot Records Merrill Lynch National Speakers Bureau Lake County Discovery Museum Office of State Senator Susan Garrett Scott Balice Strategies Lake Forest Department of Public Safety Habitat for Humanity Edelman State Farm Insurance Sieben Energy Associates A. G. Edwards Lake Forest Hospital
Recent Study Abroad Sites
Accra, Ghana Athens, Greece Bangkok, Thailand Barcelona, Spain Berlin, Germany Budapest, Hungary Buenos Aires, Argentina Cannes, France Cape Town, South Africa Chengdu, China Chiang Mai, Thailand Cork, Ireland Dakar, Senegal Dares Salaam, Tanzania Dunedin, New Zealand Durban, South Africa Florence, Italy Gaborone, Botswana Glasgow, Scotland Granada, Spain Grenoble, France Hamilton, New Zealand Jaipur, India Juiz de Fora, Brazil	Lisbon, Portugal London, England Lugana, Switzerland Madrid, Spain Mexico City, Mexico Oxford, England Paris, France Prague, Czech Republic Pune, India Quito, Ecuador Rome, Italy Salamanca, Spain Salzburg, Austria San José, Costa Rica Santiago, Dominican Republic Semester at Sea St. Petersburg, Russia Sydney, Australia Tokyo, Japan Valparaiso, Chile Vesalius, Belgium Vienna, Austria Wellington, New Zealand Yunnan, China