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.
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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
On May 18, Rutgers Global hosted a graduation ceremony for a special group of 10 graduating students—7 students from Afghanistan and 3 students from Gaza—who completed an exceptionally challenging journey to obtain their degrees from Rutgers University. As Vice President for Global Affairs Rick Garfunkel noted in his opening remarks, “The strength and resilience needed to reach this achievement is nothing short of astounding. And this is why we are gathered together today—to honor this journey.”
Rutgers University is proud to announce that 12 students from across its New Brunswick, Newark, and Camden campuses have been awarded the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship for the Spring 2026 cycle. Funded by the U.S. Department of State, the Gilman Scholarship supports students of limited financial means in pursuing study or internship opportunities abroad, helping to foster cross-cultural understanding and prepare the next generation of globally engaged leaders.
At the Global Appreciation Dinner in April 2026, Neha Tehmas, a senior majoring in Public Health at Rutgers, shared her reflections on participating in the Global Health Practicum program in Tanzania in January 2024. Here are her remarks from the event.
I went to Tanzania on a Global Health Practicum in January of 2024, where I shadowed nurses and physicians in a variety of different hospital departments, got to know the nursing students at the University of Dodoma, executed nursing simulations with them, and helped train them in Stop The Bleed.
Global Events