Undergraduates

“Students coming from more than 270 different universities are joined by faculty and staff from around the world to create a temporary learning community that literally uses the world as its campus.”

— Beverly Harris-Schenz, Semester at Sea Academic Dean, Fall 2005

Semester at Sea students are remarkably bright, thoughtful, and involved young thinkers. Open to all majors, we attract undergraduate scholars in international studies, business, and liberal arts—but when the world is your learning laboratory, students of all backgrounds have found the program relevant to their educational pursuits. Learn more about the undergraduate student body.

As many as 2000 undergraduate students experience a shipboard semester abroad with Semester at Sea each year. Fall and spring voyage includes 600-700 undergraduates representing as many as 270 colleges in the United States and around the world. More than 1,500 institutions participate in the program and accept transferable University of Virginia credit. See a selected list.