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Study Away freshmen at Peking University.

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Study Away students in Ghana visited the Kwame Nkrumah Mausoleum, a significant politico‐historical site.

Six students with a faculty member in front of a stone frieze.

Study Away students at Shanghai Jiao Tong University spent Thanksgiving with alumni at the Cornell Club of Shanghai.

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Cornell Study Away students register for their first day at China Agricultural University.

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Throughout the year, the Cornell China Center supported distance learners with career information sessions and social events that included Cornell alumni.

Seated students listening to a speaker at the Cornell China Center.

Cornellians played in a three-on-three basketball tournament against University of Illinois exchange students and ZJU students.

Six student standing arm-in-arm in a gym, wearing basketball uniforms that say Cornell ZJU.

VinUni Provost Rohit Verma welcomes Study Away students.

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In October 2020, the Office of Global Learning hosted a virtual fall gathering for Study Away students and international students studying remotely.

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Local Cornell Learning Communities Abroad

During the 2020–21 academic year, some international students could not return to campus due to ongoing travel restrictions and visa processing delays caused by the global pandemic. Cornell University rapidly worked with academic partners worldwide to support these students by creating onsite, in-residence Study Away options. These international students lived and studied at or near a local campus in their home country while remotely taking Cornell classes and one on-campus class. Students shared co-curricular activities with Cornell peers and had access to local facilities and services, providing a local Cornell community away from Ithaca.

A total of 749 international students during two semesters learned at 10 Study Away locations around the world. 

  • China Agricultural University, Peking University, and Tsinghua University | Beijing
  • CIEE/University of Ghana | Legon, Ghana
  • City University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong
  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University-UM Joint Institute | Shanghai, China
  • University of Cantabria | Santander, Spain
  • VinUniversity | Hanoi, Vietnam
  • Westlake University | Hangzhou, China
  • Yonsei University | Seoul, South Korea
  • Zhejiang University International Campus | Haining, China

Study Away in the News

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