Events
Students who are curious about studying abroad should come to this annual event, which also happens to be our biggest study abroad event each year.
The Study Abroad Fair
This is the only initiative that does not require a Rutgers student to study abroad in order to redeem it.
Passport to the World Initiative
Students can access the RGSA scholarship database on this section of the website.
Finances, Scholarships, and Special Initiatives.
RGSA offers programs during these terms.
Embedded Fall/Spring, Fall, Winter, Spring, Summer, Academic Year
This online resource allows students to find study abroad courses that have already been approved for a 1:1 equivalency to a Rutgers course.
Course Equivalency Database
When attending a virtual information or drop-in advising session, students are required to do this before receiving a Zoom link.
Register
Students studying abroad in Montevideo, Uruguay for the spring 2026 semester will automatically receive up to $1,500 in a flight credit through this initiative.
Year of Latin America and the Caribbean (YoLAC)
A student's typical financial aid package including federal, state, institutional, external scholarships, loans, tuition remission, VA benefits, etc. may be applied to their study abroad program costs during the following study abroad terms.
Embedded Fall/Spring, Fall, Spring, Academic Year
RGSA offers roughly this amount of programs each year.
About 150
Advising and Events
Global Ambassadors can regularly browse and sign up for events on this document.
25-26 Global Ambassador Events Calendar (Google Sheets)
The Access the World (ATW) program keeps study abroad costs equivalent to or cheaper than a semester at Rutgers for this many global destinations for non-NJ residents.
About 50
Financial aid is not offered during this study abroad term.
Winter
These programs are 3-credit fall/spring courses that include an international, 1-credit travel component that happens during term breaks (spring break) or right after terms (winter/summer break). Some of these programs may only consist of the 1-credit international travel experience and do not require students to be enrolled in an on-campus course.
Embedded programs.
Graduate students that are not in SMLR are only allowed to study abroad on these types of programs.
Short-term programs.
RGSA offers virtual drop-in advising on these days (even during term breaks)
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday
As of now, these are the only two RGSA initiatives that apply to both semester and short-term programs.
FlyPass + Access Africa
Students must be enrolled in this amount of credits during a summer session to have access to state and federal aid.
6 credits
Students can participate in a global internship during the following study abroad terms.
Fall, Spring, Academic Year, Summer
This type of program involves both inbound and outbound mobility, meaning RU students go to this institution to study abroad and the institution sends their students to study abroad at Rutgers.
Exchange
At in-person study abroad events, this is the only swag/handout that RGSA needs to ration because they disappear almost instantly.
Squishy Knights
Through the Access Africa initiative any student studying abroad for a semester at one of our destinations in Africa will automatically receive this in addition to a $2,000 flight credit.
A $4,000 scholarship
Lynell's Financing Study Abroad Workshops are offered on these two days of the week for the Fall 2025 semester.
Monday (virtual) and Thursday (hybrid)
Students can identify which programs are faculty-led on our website by searching for this word in the program title.
Rutgers
This office works with SEBS students and faculty to increase access to global programming at RU. Oi Yin Lo, Megan Francis, and Tracy Waldman are the employees of this office.
SEBS Office of Global Engagement