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The Provost’s Latin America/Caribbean Merit Scholarship provided six new international students from St. Maarten, Dominican Republic, British Virgin Islands, Belize, and Ecuador with scholarships for the 2017-2018 academic year.

Through this scholarship, the students receive a scholarship of $500 per semester and classification as a Florida resident for tuition purposes.

This year, scholarship recipients are studying subjects from criminology, biological sciences, and economics to hospitality and sport management. 

The Center for Global Engagement held a graduation reception on Friday, April 21, to honor the more than 400 international students who completed degrees and programs during 2016-2017. 

Mary B. Coburn, the Vice President for Student Affairs, spoke to students, faculty, and staff at the reception and shared the importance of having international students at FSU.  

Florida State University recently became one of only four universities to win a prestigious national award for integrating international education throughout the university.

FSU students and staff are gearing up for Spring Break travel. Here are a few helpful tips from the U.S. Department of State for ensuring a safe, fun trip.

FSU Special Academic Programs (SAP) international student Jingyi Situ has maximized her time on FSU’s campus by getting involved with student organizations, clubs, and an on-campus internship.

Situ – Management Information System (MIS) major at Capital University of Economics and Business in Beijing, China – is the CGE's Global Exchanges Intern; a member of a professional business fraternity, Alpha Kappa Psi; and a member of the FSU Cybersecurity Club.

Roee Ben Sira, globally acclaimed composer, arranger, ethnomusicologist, and pianist from Israel, will be featured in FSU’s Rainbow Concert of World Music, one of the country’s largest higher education world music programs, on Tuesday, February 28.

Ben Sira is an internationally renowned contemporary master of Brazilian choro music, an instrumental genre with origins from 19^thcentury Rio de Janeiro. Choro is the musical intersection of upbeat samba, bossa nova, jazz, and classical, truly making it world music.

Florida State University Athletics and the Center for Global Engagement invite students to come out and show their support for the FSU women’s basketball team and international student athletes at the FSU vs. Wake Forest game on Thursday, February 9, 2017, at 7 p.m.

Here are some fun facts about our current international team members.

Iho Lopez from Blanes, Spain (#22 – Forward)

Florida State University is hosting two higher education masters students from the University of the West Indies (UWI) for a six-week internship in the Division of Student Affairs.

The international students, Ann Clement-Kirton and Liana Coggins, are interning in the Center for Academic Retention and Enhancement and the Center for Global Engagement, respectively. The internship will provide them with practical experience and learning opportunities in a university setting as one of their final requirements before receiving their master’s degree.

The Center for Global Engagement recently welcomed 10 new incoming exchange students who will attend FSU for the Spring 2017 semester. FSU received 43 incoming exchange students during this academic year. Of these new students, several are from FSU’s newest global exchange partner universities: University of Macau; Hong Kong Baptist University; and Sungkyunkwan University. Students also joined us from existing partnerships with University of Groningen, the Netherlands; Oldenburg University, Germany; Hanyang University, South Korea; and University of Perugia, Italy.

Thursday, January 5, the Center for Global Engagement welcomed more than 100 new international students from 31 countries. Our new students join Florida State University's more than 2,400 international students from 125 different countries and areas.

This semester students came from countries such as Panama, India, China, Venezuela, Iran, and Columbia, and top fields of study include finance; electrical, mechanical, and chemical engineering; computer science; sports management; and economics.