Explore the World and Expand Your Perspective
Some of the best learning happens outside of the classroom. Experience new cultures, traditions and adventures through award-winning programs and a university that makes anywhere feel like home.
There’s more to the academic experience than what you can find in books and on blackboards. Learning by doing isn’t just a phrase for our students, it’s a way of life — especially with our award-winning Global Opportunities (GO) program. Gain a more expansive view of the world, greater self-confidence, new tastes and sounds, genuine friendships, and a fresh perspective on life, all while preparing for a lifetime of personal and professional success.
Choices and Support
Through our GO program, you’ll study in a cross-cultural setting. Your options include in-person semester-long study-abroad program or a minimum two-week experience during summer or winter break to learn about a different culture. Or complete a virtual exchange program, eliminating the travel component while still maximizing your cross-cultural competencies.
We make it easier to study abroad:
- Program choices — Study, intern, conduct research or volunteer in 70 study-abroad programs operating in 35 countries representing almost every continent. About 5% do a study away experience within the United States or through virtual exchange.
- Affordability — Every student with need receives a scholarship. For a GO Long semester experience, you’ll use the same package of scholarships and financial aid as when you attend classes on campus. For students on GO Short and GO Your Way programs, Susquehanna provides more than $750,000 in need-based aid annually.
- Faculty support — Susquehanna faculty and staff lead GO Short experiences, and will help you prepare for your GO Long or GO Your Way program.
- Easy to schedule — Because GO is already part of your four-year curriculum, your program and relative courses count toward your degree. GO Short and GO Your Way programs during semester breaks easily keep you on track to graduate in four years.
- Free passport assistance — Every semester, Susquehanna helps students by bringing passport agents to campus, helping with the paperwork, arranging passport photos and covering passport fees.
Wider Worldview, Expanded Self
Greater self-confidence and global awareness are some of the significant outcomes you will gain from education abroad, preparing you for a lifetime of personal and professional success.
You will also learn valuable things about yourself from being exposed to different cultures. You’ll try foods you’ve never had before, meet a new best friend or look at your life from a fresh perspective.
Future-proof Your Career
In addition to boosting your emotional intelligence, studying abroad helps jump-start your career. Of students who study abroad:
90% secure a career-related job and earn thousands more
within the first six months after graduation, compared to other graduates, according to an IES Abroad survey.
90% get admitted into their top choice graduate program
and students who study abroad are more likely to earn a postgraduate degree, according to a Census Bureau study.
You will gain valuable job skills such as adaptability, communication, cultural training, foreign language proficiency, problem solving and tolerance for ambiguity.
