2025-2026
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.
2024-2025
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
A recipient of a Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Program grant, Pauline Kung, of North Haledon, N.J., taught English as a foreign language to school children in Taipei, the East Asian nation’s capital city, from August 2025 to June 2026. The 22-year-old, who earned a bachelor of arts degree (majoring in political science and criminal justice) from the School of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers University-New Brunswick in May 2025, discusses designing lessons for 400-some students, her plans to attend law school and running road races during her time abroad.
Rutgers Global hosted its annual Study Abroad Fall Fair on September 16 in the Livingston Student Center and welcomed more than 600 students who came to learn about the 140 study abroad programs in 50 countries around the world that Rutgers offers. This year’s theme was the Night Market, and students enjoyed learning about study abroad programs under the lights and partaking in treats like candy sushi, popcorn, hot dogs, and ice cream. There was also a psychic at the fair, guiding our students to their study abroad destiny. Here are photos from the event.
An art exhibition at the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University-New Brunswick, which runs from Sept. 9 through Feb. 14, and an event at Kirkpatrick Chapel celebrate Rutgers’ early ties to the island nation. The exhibition, Japan In/Out of View, begins in the 1860s, when Rutgers hosted some of the earliest Japanese students visiting the U.S. and became the first university in America to admit students from Japan as early as 1867. The university also hosted “Rutgers Meets Japan: A Celebration of Friendship,” on September 12 at Kirkpatrick Chapel.
Global Events
Tuesday, October 06, 2026, 5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m. | Alexander Library, Teleconference Lecture Hall, New Brunswick