Expand your global perspective

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Courses across various disciplines help create distinct experiences so all students have an opportunity to navigate the globe

Interim program are calling!

See other AVAILABLE STUDY ABROAD OPPORTUNITIES 

No matter what your major, you are eligible to study abroad.

Calling all Engineers!

  • Spend the spring semester of your sophomore year in faculty-led programs in Madrid, Spain, and Bonn, Germany. Engineering students are strongly encouraged to study abroad. The programs are fully integrated with the engineering curricula and allow students to stay on schedule to graduate in four years.

Assante Program

New Opportunity for Research Travel Funding

Assante Program for Honors Research Travel supports and encourages students’ impactful global engagement

Learn More of about the Assante Program

Co-curricular experiences are gateways to new places.

Alternative School Break

Through Alternative School Break (ASB), Lafayette students have traveled internationally to countries like Honduras, Hungary, and the Dominican Republic, and to at least 17 states as well as Washington, D.C., to alleviate hunger and homelessness, re-build homes, assist with clean water, and befriend orphaned children.

Learn about Alternative School Break

Lafayette Initiative for Malagasy Education

Ten years ago, the College took a group of students to Madagascar for what would ultimately become the Lafayette Initiative for Malagasy Education (LIME), a peer-to-peer mentoring program between Lafayette students and high school students from Madagascar that prepares the latter for the process of applying to U.S. colleges.

Learn more about Lafayette Initiative for Malagasy Education

Max Kade Center for German Studies

Max Kade Center for German Studies collaborates with teachers, scholars, and artists to create a forum in which students, faculty, and the public at large can gain a greater understanding of the histories, cultures, and political, economic, and social developments of German-speaking countries.

Learn more about Max Kade Center for German Studies

Initiatives

  • The Global Cities Initiative features panels, presentations, speakers, films, performances, and exhibits that focus on global cities.
  • The Robert ‘69 and Margaret Pastor Lecture brings some of the most innovative thinkers and practitioners here to speak, including Jimmy Carter, Lakhdar Brahimi, and Kris Manjapra.
  • Assante Fund for Honors Research Travel supports independent travel for honors thesis research with priority placed on projects for which the research addresses current developmental, economic, educational, environmental, political, social, or other related issues at the destination.

Take a glimpse at the range of global impact

 

Experiencing ‘all the amazing things the world has to offer’

 

 

 

One World, two Adventures

 

 

 

Passport to success

 

 

 

Scholarship story: Grayce Walker ’22

 

 

 

Scholarship story: Katie Kavanagh ’21

 

 

 

Students spend three weeks immersed in history and culture of Greece

 

 

 

Virtual Michaelangelo