Enhancing Engineering Education with an opportunity to study abroad yields personal development, academic growth, and professional prospects that may not normally be readily accessible in traditional classroom and laboratory settings alone. Gaining a foothold in international academic experience with a global mindset and perspective results in knowledge, skills, and abilities that transcend traditional learning. This includes:

• Adaptability
• self-awareness
• tolerance for ambiguity
• teamwork,
• Leadership
• work ethic
• problem-solving skills
• Cultural & Language immersion

Engineers solve the world’s problems – CoE Abroad programs allow tomorrow’s engineers to engage with the world in real and immersive ways that allow for solutions to be more tangible, shedding light on perspectives only gained through actual experience. This is apparent in the data as well:

Studying abroad through the College of Engineering and USF World is a truly unique enhancement that grants student access to the world around them and in ways that improve and advance their personal ambitions, academic achievements, and professional goals.

 

• first-generation students who studied abroad (relative to first-generation students who did not)
  • higher 4- and 6-year graduation rates
  • higher cumulative GPA scores
  • took less time to graduate
• Education Abroad programming is a significant high-impact educational practice to promote college completion rates among first-generation students.