2024-2025
About Us
Mission, Vision, Values
Mission: Rutgers Global is the university-wide international office that promotes global engagement and understanding.
Vision: Rutgers Global is dedicated to bringing together our richly diverse student population to engage in cross-cultural exchange and critical dialog, and to ultimately prepare them to be globally minded, culturally fluent citizens of the nation and world. We seek to ensure that internationally renowned scholars join Rutgers University; we cultivate meaningful global partnerships and alliances; and we support breakthrough research and innovation with an international impact.
Values: Rutgers Global continually seeks to strengthen the University’s global engagement, impact, and reputation by:
- Cultivating and supporting a robust and diverse international student and scholar community.
- Fostering global experiential learning at home and abroad for all students to nurture their development and success.
- Partnering with leading international institutions and organizations to develop and sustain collaborative academic programs and research that address global grand challenges.
- Creating opportunities and supporting initiatives for the broad university community and alumni to engage globally.
Staff Directory
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Our International History
Rutgers was chartered in 1766 as Queen’s College, a private institution affiliated with the Dutch Reformed Church, and then renamed Rutgers College in 1825 after philanthropist Colonel Henry Rutgers. In 1866, Rutgers welcomed its first Japanese students, the Yokoi brothers. A brilliant samurai, Kusakabe Taro, followed Yokoi brothers to Rutgers just one year later, with aspirations of a career in international relations.
Publications
Annual Report: Rutgers Global publishes an annual report, providing information and data on our activities and international engagement.
Global Connections: Rutgers Global publishes a monthly email newsletter with highlighted global news and featured events that is sent to students, faculty and staff, and alumni. Subscribe here.
2023-2024
Rutgers Global Alerts
Rutgers Global Alerts provide guidance and resources to all members of the Rutgers community regarding issues related to travel advisories, immigration policies, and other regulatory updates that impact international students and scholars, as well as domestic students and faculty traveling abroad.
Global News
This summer, Rutgers Global and the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy (EMSOP) launched a new short-term program for international students on the Rutgers-New Brunswick campus. The Rutgers Pharmacy Summer Program ran from July 5 through July 19 and welcomed 31 undergraduate and graduate pharmacy students from South Korea. The students hailed from Dongguk University, Ewha Womans University, Seoul National University, and Sungkyunkwan University. The goal of the two-week residential program was to introduce students to pharmacy education, clinical practice, biomedical research, and pharmaceutical career pathways in the United States.
Rutgers University is pleased to announce that ten faculty and staff have received Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program awards in a range of fields and in a variety of countries for the 2026-2027 academic year. The Fulbright Program is the U.S. government’s flagship international academic exchange program, founded in 1946 with an ambitious goal: to increase mutual understanding and support friendly and peaceful relations between the people of the United States and the people of other countries. Since its inception, nearly 450,000 individuals have participated in the Fulbright Program.
A delegation from Rutgers University traveled to India and China to conduct in-person pre-departure orientations (PDO) with newly admitted undergraduate students and their families in June. The PDOs are spearheaded by Rutgers Global and serve to introduce a new class of Rutgers international students to the academic support services available just for them. The Rutgers team leading the orientation was comprised of leadership from Rutgers Global, and the School of Engineering, School for Environmental and Biological Sciences, School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers-New Brunswick, and Rutgers Business School. The events were held in Delhi, Mumbai, Beijing and Shanghai.
Global Events
Wednesday, September 09, 2026, 3:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. | Rutgers Global - ISSS, New Brunswick