Take your education across the world. Florida Southern offers study abroad experiences in destinations across the United States and around the globe, for a week during break or a full semester away. Every academic travel experience is faculty-led and built to immerse you in the place you're visiting, so you'll learn the culture and history, taste the local food, and build lasting connections as you broaden your global perspective.
Florida Southern's study abroad is built to be more than a trip. Each experience is designed around what turns travel into education: real cultural immersion, academic credit that counts toward your degree, and a team that supports you from the first question to the flight home.
You won't just see a place, you'll engage with it. FSC travel experiences move past the postcard view toward genuine cultural exchange, so you'll learn history where it happened, share meals that carry meaning, and speak with the people who call your destination home.
Studying abroad challenges you to understand viewpoints shaped by different backgrounds and places. You'll return with the empathy, curiosity, and openness that employers and graduate programs look for, and a clearer sense of your own place in an interconnected world.
Your time abroad counts. Credits from your study abroad courses apply toward your graduation requirements, and discipline-specific trips can fulfill requirements within your major, so you can go abroad and stay on track to graduate.
From planning through your return, the Office of Student Travel provides guidance and support to help make your experience successful. Faculty directors lead each trip, planning the itinerary and coordinating details such as transportation, lodging, meals, and activities. Before departure, your faculty director will share a detailed itinerary and other important trip information.
Florida Southern students have two paths to studying abroad. Both are open to you; which one fits depends on how long you want to be away and where you are in your degree.
Florida Southern's Junior Journey program sends you abroad on a faculty-led travel experience of roughly one to 4 weeks during fall, spring, or May term. It's the most popular way FSC students see the world: short enough to fit your schedule, long enough to change your perspective.
The signature benefit is cost. As a junior or senior who has earned at least 60 credits, you can take one Junior Journey at a significantly reduced cost, FSC's way of investing in you. You'll travel with classmates and a faculty director, earn credit toward your degree, and choose from destinations across Europe, Asia and Oceania, the Caribbean and Latin America, and the United States.
If you want deeper immersion, Florida Southern partners with universities and agencies around the world so you can spend a full term abroad and still complete your graduation requirements. Study American degree programs in London, learn Spanish on the coast of Spain, live in a historic manor house outside London, or study business in Switzerland. If your destination isn't among our direct partners, our affiliate programs can connect you to institutions in Ireland, Japan, Brazil, Australia, and more.
Much of your Florida Southern financial aid may apply to a semester abroad, and scholarships like the Gilman can help cover the cost.
Studying abroad may cost less than you think. Junior Journey offers a one-time reduced-cost travel experience for eligible juniors and seniors, and for semester programs. Much of your state and federal financial aid may apply. Scholarships such as the Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship offer additional support for undergraduate study abroad.
The Office of Student Travel can help you find the right study abroad program, understand eligibility, and walk through every step of planning.
Whether you want to learn more or you're ready to plan your study abroad, we're here to help.
