• All submissions should be jointly submitted by a student and a faculty advisor. The faculty advisor can either be a Study Abroad Officer or a Professor. Preferably this individual would have a working relationship with the student applicant. 
• Submissions will be accepted from any undergraduate, graduate or doctoral student who is attending a university or college in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. 
• Student applicants should be seeking to participate in a global learning experience in Asia. The global learning experience can be:
  • Short-term faculty-led program (up to 8 weeks). 
  • Semester or full year study abroad program
  • International internship (6 weeks minimum)
  • International scholarly research (4 weeks minimum)

*Submissions will be accepted only from students who have selected a global learning experience in a country different from their nationality and/or different from the country that issued their passport.