SIT Graduate Institute

Preparing graduates and professionals to address global issues with master's degree and certificate programs.

Formerly known as the School for International Training, the SIT Graduate Institute offers graduate students a widened view of the world and opportunities for in-depth study of the most critical global issues of our times.

Founded over 40 years ago as a training center for early Peace Corps volunteers, the SIT Graduate Institute prepares students from more than 30 countries to become informed and effective leaders, professionals, and global citizens. Graduates of SIT’s degree programs go on to start nonprofit organizations, teach languages, become government and civic leaders, and achieve success in the private sector.

Through a combination of classroom and field-based learning in fields ranging from international education to international development to language teaching, SIT Graduate Institute enables students to transfer academic learning into real-world practice in the service of social change.

"For more than 40 years, SIT Graduate Degrees and Professional Programs have prepared students who imagine the world not as it is, but as it could be."

- Carol Bellamy
President and CEO, World Learning
President, SIT

News and Events

  • Adam Weinberg Named Next President and CEO of World Learning/SIT
    Ken Bartels, Chair of the Board of Trustees of World Learning, announced today that, following a unanimous vote of the Board,  Dr. Adam S. Weinberg has been named the next President and CEO of World Learning/SIT and will succeed outgoing President and CEO, Carol Bellamy, on September 1, 2009.
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  • Growing and Adjusting Abroad
    SIT Graduate Institute Professor David Shallenberger contributes to a discussion at NAFSA's 2009 annual conference on the impacts of short-term study abroad.
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  • SIT CONTACT Faculty George Lakey shares his thoughts about nonviolent change
    Rebel Energy -- George Lakey is unstoppable in his quest for peace and justice. (Mr. Lakey is on leave of absence from CONTACT and will return in 2010.)
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  • SIT Graduate Institute student Dorothy Sewe attends Harvard 2009 Humanitarian Action Summit
    At the 2009 Humanitarian Action Summit, sponsored by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, experts from around the world discussed the challenges of international aid.
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