The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ranks 19th among all U.S. higher education institutions for the number of students earning credit for study abroad, according to the Institute of International Education’s (IIE) 2016 Open Doors Report on International … Continued

Bahij ’17 came to the United States as a refugee, fleeing the Syrian civil war to a place where, he explained, he could enjoy freedom of speech and feel like a citizen. “When Americans welcome refugees, one day my kids … Continued

Three students from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were named 2016 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellows Program, making Carolina one of the top producers of Fulbright-Hays DDRA fellows. UNC was awarded $109,256 in funding for the … Continued

For Claudia Yaghoobi, a passion for learning and education was instilled in her from a young age. Now an assistant professor of Persian studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Yaghoobi grew up in an Armenian family … Continued

The Fulbright Program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is robust and nationally recognized: between 1973 to 2015, more than 250 students from UNC received Fulbright Student Awards grants to research, study and teach abroad. In 2014-15, … Continued

Take advantage of an easy on-campus opportunity to apply for or renew your U.S. passport at the FedEx Global Education Center from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. on Nov. 15 and 16 during UNC Global’s annual Passport Drive. Students, faculty, … Continued

On Oct. 24, journalist Fred Kaplan discussed the next front in the cyber war between the United States and Russia in a talk sponsored by the Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies (CSEEES) and the Curriculum in Peace, … Continued

Ten students and recent graduates from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have been awarded Fulbright U.S. Student Program grants. The grants are for self-designed research and study projects or to teach English abroad during the 2016-2017 academic … Continued

On Oct. 25, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill hosted participants in the Fulbright-Nehru International Education Administrators Seminar (IEAS), a two-week program that enables college and university administrators from India to come to the United States and explore … Continued

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ties for 32nd among the world’s top 1,000 research universities, according to the U.S. News and World Report Best Global Universities rankings. The new ranking builds on U.S. News and World Report’s … Continued