Swarthmore College encourages its students to spend a semester or year studying abroad as an important part of their degree programs. Regardless of your fields of study at swarthmore, your college education is likely to be enhanced by study abroad; and your post-graduate life, increasingly, will require of you an understanding of the international world for constructive citizenship and success in your chosen endeavors.

In recent years, Swarthmore students have successfully completed study abroad in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Continental Europe, the Caribbean, and the English-speaking world (Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand). They have attended more than a hundred different programs, and more than forty percent of Swarthmore graduates now study abroad.

For your exploration of foreign study possibilities as they may be relevant to you, the College has in place a system to advise and assist you at all states of the planning and preparation process, while you are abroad, and after you return. This website is intended to introduce you to these resources