Peace Corps Prep

Information for universities and colleges

Being a university partner enables your institution to prepare students for international development fieldwork and potential Peace Corps service.

Become a partner school

The Peace Corps Prep undergraduate certificate program gives four-year academic institutions the opportunity for students to develop intercultural competence through a partnership with the Peace Corps. This intercultural and community-focused program enhances students’ undergraduate experiences. Current Peace Corps Prep partner institutions have used their programs to recruit curious, motivated, high-achieving students, and have won awards for campus internationalization.

Starting a Peace Corps Prep program on your campus

Starting a Peace Corps Prep program does not require creating any new courses, offices, or notations on students’ transcripts, and does not need to be formalized through the campus registrar. It does require a college to collaborate with the Peace Corps and follow the program's guidelines.

The Peace Corps issues a certificate to students who complete the program and has created a streamlined model focused on integrating a school’s relevant curricular and extracurricular offerings. Using the Peace Corps-provided templates as guides, partners map out how their students can develop the program’s four core competencies:

• Focused hands-on experience
• Intercultural exchange
• Professional leadership
• Foreign language skills

How colleges and universities apply

The Peace Corps Prep Proposal cycle is by invitation only. If your institution is interested in learning more about the program and being invited to a future proposal cycle, please contact the Peace Corps at [email protected] or (202) 692-1643.