Health & Safety

Pre-Departure Orientation

Prior to your education abroad experience, you will participate in a mandatory pre-departure orientation hosted by the Office of Global Education. During this orientation, you will be provided with information including but not limited to:

Application Process

Students will be required to complete three applications:

  1. An internal Kent State Education Abroad application.
  2. An ISEP application.
  3. And a partner university application.

These quick steps below will help walk you through the process.

President Todd Diacon and junior women's basketball player Bianca Juzzo celebrate the team's MAC championship.

Golden Flashes Women’s Basketball player Bianca Juzzo was playing for New Mexico Junior College when a recruiter suggested she consider a transfer to Kent State University.A native of Ribeirão Preto, Brazil, Juzzo grew up in a family of basketball players, so the idea of moving to a larger program was appealing. On her first visit, Juzzo enjoyed touring the Kent Campus, meeting the team and even going to a football game and haunted house.“I watched the football team beat Akron and it was amazing,” she said. “It was a bigger school, everything was different, everything was exciting.”But when Ju...

Freda Robinson

 Freda Robinson is proof that a college degree is worth the journey – at any age and for as long as it takes. Just nine days after celebrating her 60th birthday, Robinson walked across the stage during the commencement ceremony on the Kent State Campus  and received not one, but two, diplomas: the first for an associate degree in applied sciences and the other for a Bachelor of Science degree in Insurance Studies.“As I was waiting to be called to receive my degree and in response to (the dean’s) congratulatory fist bump,” Robinson related, “I said to him: ‘and it only took me 34...

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