You must be enrolled in a home campus while you participate in a CCCU GlobalEd program, and your school must approve you to participate.

Each school has a different procedure for approving off-campus study. You may need to complete additional paperwork or have an interview on your campus before your school officially approves you to apply to CCCU GlobalEd . The best place to find out the details of that process is your campus’s off-campus study office/contact.

Your campus must verify that you are approved to participate in a CCCU GlobalEd program through the Certification Form. Instructions on how to complete this form will be given once you open an application. The form needs to be signed electronically by you, an off-campus study contact, and an academic officer (i.e. Registrar or Chief Academic Officer).

CCCU GlobalEd requires that you submit a transcript from your current campus, as well as any college, university, or community college from which you have received credit.

To request a transcript from your college or university, contact your Registrar’s/Records office.

For physical copies, please send your certification form and transcript to the following address:

CCCU GlobalEd
321 8th St NE
Washington, DC 20002

For official electronic copies, please send them to: globaled@cccu.org

Remember: Make sure to give your campus enough time to process the certification form and transcript prior to the admissions deadline! We can accept unofficial faxed or scanned copies to use to review your application, but CCCU GlobalEd must receive an official transcript before we send you an admissions decision.

Campuses work out course equivalencies differently. It is your responsibility to work with your academic advisor, off-campus study advisor and/or registrar to determine credit and equivalent courses. If possible, try to finalize course equivalencies before you leave campus or, better yet, while applying. This will make your transition back to campus much easier!

CCCU GlobalEd does not assign course numbers due to the variety of campus/department policies. However, we provide resources to help. Each program’s “Academics” section on the webpage includes course descriptions and/or syllabi. Since courses do not frequently change from semester to semester, the posted syllabi will give you and your academic advisor a general idea of the coursework you would take while studying with CCCU GlobalEd.

You bet! Most students who attend CCCU GlobalEd programs are from CCCU institutions, but we welcome applications from non-CCCU students! To learn more about the procedures for non-CCCU student participation, please contact the CCCU GlobalEd offices at 202-548-5201.

You can check the status of your requirements in your application on TerraDotta. Simply log into your application portal, and look to see which materials are listed under “Completed requirements.” There is also a status bar on the main page of your application that will show how many requirements you have left to submit.

Please note that hardcopy transcripts may take several days to arrive by mail and 1-2 business days to manually process.

If you have questions or concerns about the status of your required materials, please contact your CCCU GlobalEd program advisor.

We review submitted applications on a rolling basis, so you will receive an admission status notification within two weeks!

First, celebrate! Then, get back to business… Within two weeks of receiving your acceptance decision, you will need to confirm your intent to participate and pay a non-refundable deposit. (This is why it’s a good idea to check out things like courses and finances before you receive an admissions decision!) Then, you will submit the remaining post-acceptance materials in preparation for your time with CCCU GlobalEd. We will send you all the details about those requirements when the time comes. Until then, just focus on the application!

First, you should tell your parents why you are interested in studying off-campus with CCCU GlobalEd. Share your excitement! Explain to them how you heard about the program, why your interest has grown, and how you think the experience will benefit you.

From there, you can get into the nitty-gritty details. Everyone’s parents are going to have different concerns and questions, but some important topics to cover are program dates, costs, safety, and communication. While some topics are covered below, we also encourage you to share the program’s website with your parents. It contains a world of information about everything from housing to academics to program staff.

It is bound to happen: your parents are going to ask you a question that you don’t know how to answer. If that happens, take note of their concerns and give your advisor a call! While we don’t mind talking with your parents, you are the one who wants to study with us so you should be our main point of contact. If your parents ask tough questions, use it as an opportunity to learn more about the program and then communicate the answers back to them. This is the best way to make sure that both you and your parents are informed.

We understand that safety is a big concern for your parents, whether you are studying stateside or internationally. While CCCU GlobalEd cannot guarantee that you will not experience any risks, we can affirm our longstanding commitment to student safety and stewardship; and our readiness to deal with emergencies in a responsible manner.

CCCU GlobalEd has been in operation for more than 35 years. We only operate programs in locations where we are confident that you will be safe. We continually monitor the news and safety conditions for changes, responding as necessary. Each program has an emergency plan that is reviewed regularly in light of standards of good practice in off-campus programming, local regional advice, risk management consultations, and experience gained through previous emergency events. Program staff members are well connected within their local communities, with many years of experience and deep networks of resources to draw upon for advice and assistance. Additionally, each program includes safety topics in orientation in which we ask students to do their part to stay safe as well.

If your parents would like more details on this issue, please direct them to CCCU GlobalEd’s Health & Safety page.

Before you begin the program, CCCU GlobalEd considers you to be our primary point of contact. So we will not be in regular contact with your parents. However, we will notify your emergency contacts in the case of an emergency and/or if any safety announcements need to be sent out during the semester.

During the semester you will live in and travel to places that might not always have access to telephones or email. Although there will be time for you to connect with those back home, we encourage you not to be in daily contact with family and friends. Instead, it is important to spend your “emotional energy” identifying with the local culture; you will have a better semester as a result. We suggest that you prepare your family and friends that they may not hear from you as often as they might when you are on campus back home. It is best not to commit to calling friends and family at a set time until after you arrive at the program and become more familiar with the schedule.

In the case of emergency: CCCU GlobalEd program staff always have means of communicating with our U.S. offices, including at times when the group is traveling.