Wondering what studying abroad might look like if you’ve never been on a plane? Meet N’deye Diop ‘26, Arabic student, first-time traveler, Black and Muslim woman. Diop shares her experience with Winter at Yonsei and advice for other students like her.

The Office of International Affairs (OIA) reimagines global learning at home and abroad, helps take on global grand challenges, invests in global communities and people, and advances the global common good through public partnerships.

Universitas 21 Health Research Exchange (U21HREx) is a virtual international knowledge translation and exchange network and Community of Practice for students and early career researchers (ECRs) in Health and Social Care.

Professor Emerita of Public Health, Dr. Donna Howard, shares her 2008 Fulbright experience in India and its continuous positive reverberations—16 years later.

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Documents and policies international students and scholars need to travel within the United States and oversees during their program.

View the 2025 U21 RISE Showcase and Wards nominees from the University of Maryland.

The University of Maryland is proud to announce two student-led projects – BetterU and Dialectable– as its representatives for this year’s Universitas21 (U21) RISE Showcase and Awards.

The chance to build cross-cultural relationships and engage in dialogue is a hallmark of the program. Although the Cuba program is marking one decade as a UMD-led, graduate-level experience, its success in building solidarity and fostering intellectual interchanges between Cuban and U.S. educators and scholars goes back to 1994.