Enrich your academic experience with international travel and immerse yourself in multi-cultural learning.
Study abroad or study tour programs are available in most majors and enable you to complement your USD class work by focusing on language, culture, history, international business or other areas of specific interest to you.
USD Sponsored Programs
When studying abroad through one of the USD Sponsored Programs, students may apply certain USD institutional scholarships (Mickelson, Presidential Alumni and Coyote Commitment) toward the cost of the study abroad experience.
Oceania
- GlobaLinks – Griffith University (Australia)
- GlobaLinks – Newcastle University (Australia)
- USAC – Massey University (New Zealand)
Americas
- ISA-San Jose (Costa Rica)
- ISA-Buenos Aires (Argentina)
- ISA-Florianopolis (Brazil)
- ISA-Lima (Peru)
Europe
- ISA-Paris (France)
- ISA-Florence (Italy)
- ISA-Rome (Italy)
- ISA-Granada (Spain)
- ISA-Salamanca (Spain)
- ISA Reading (England)
- GlobaLinks-Canterbury (England)
- ISA-Prague (Czech Republic)
- GlobaLinks-Glasgow (Scotland)
- AIFS – Limerick (Ireland)
Asia
- USAC-Nagasaki (Japan)
- CIS-Beijing (China)
- ISA-Shanghai (China)
- SDSU-India
Africa/Middle East
- ISA-Meknes (Morocco)
- CIEE-Cape Town (South Africa)
- USAC-Ghana
- SDSU-Egypt
USD Direct Programs
USD has formal exchange and partnerships/agreements with various universities abroad. With most USD Direct programs, you continue to pay your regular USD tuition and fees during your terms away. You will remain enrolled full-time at USD while you are away and are able to maintain your financial aid eligibility, including institutional scholarships.
- National Student Exchange (USD, Canada, and Puerto Rico)
- Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (Germany)
- Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfsburg (Germany)
- Carl Von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (Germany)
- Pazmany Peter Catholic University (Hungary)
- University of Pau, IEFE (France)
- University of Vigo (Spain)
- University of Glamorgan (Wales, UK)
- Otaru University of Commerce (Japan)


Students from USD study in places like England, France, Spain, Japan, The Netherlands, Egypt and New Zealand.
