Carlson Education Abroad

📸 Get your cameras ready because it's time for CGI's Photo Contest! 📸

Submit your best pictures for a chance to win some awesome prizes and also be featured in our social media, flyers, promotions, and more! We have 3 categories this year: Natural Landscapes, Architecture/Cityscapes, and Creating Connections.

Did we mention you can win a UMN Keychain just by participating? Every participant will be entered into a raffle for a prize!

Deadline to submit is June 3, 2024, at 11:59PM
More information can be found at z.umn.edu/CGIPhotoContest2024 or through the link in our bio!

📢 New program alert!! 📢 Take I-Core abroad for the first time in Prague! 🇨🇿

Enroll in Gold block classes and fulfill your international experience! Applications for Spring 2025 are open now until May 15, 2024! This program runs from January 16 to May 15, 2025.

Find more information on our website or reach out to Kate Terry ([email protected]) for any questions.

Follow along today with Jannah Oroceo & Miya Molina as they take over our Instagram story today to show their experience studying abroad as an undergraduate at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, Japan!

Studying abroad is AMAZING, but so is taking care of your mental health! Check out these tips for taking care of your mental health and wellness while studying abroad!

Happy Leap Day! One more day of February means one more day to submit your application!

The application deadline for Global Immersion Summer 2024 Program is tomorrow, March 1st.

To learn more about the Business in Dublin and Business in Barcelona programs, go to z.umn.edu/BarSum and z.umn.edu/DubSum. Contact Kate Johnson ([email protected]) for any questions!

Today's Carlson Student Organization Spotlight is NABA, the National Association of Black Accountants!

NABA is a diverse organization that provides students of all backgrounds and majors with a platform to grow personally, professionally, and academically, while serving the Black community!

Swipe to learn more about NABA and how to get involved 💲➡️

In future post, we will be doing Carlson student organization highlights in which we highlight student organizations within the Carlson School of Management.

GLOBE is an organization who continuously provides outstanding support to incoming exchange students.

Photo: 2024 Spring incoming exchange students on a bus tour of the Twin Cities taking photo at the Stone Arch Bridge.

Follow them:
GLOBE UMN

We are hiring!
Apply today to join an amazing team and get the chance to put your unique skills to use!

Photo contest round TWO 📸
Introducing our final 11 pictures!
Head to the link in our bio to vote for your favorite 3 photos!

Videos will also be voted on in the final round, taking place on our Instagram stories.

It’s time!
Head to the link in our bio to vote for our photo contest submissions 📸

These are the happy faces of students from and finishing their Global Business Practicum presentation.
A big congratulations for this international team of students learning true global partnership 🌎

Made it 👍

We hope you're as excited as us that the Class of 2023 has decided to support education abroad for their class gift!
Want to contribute?
Go to z.umn.edu/8kr6 to help raise the $1,000 goal.

The class of 2023 has chosen to help relieve the financial burden of studying abroad as their class gift. They are hoping to raise $1,000- donations can be made at z.umn.edu/8kr6
We hope you’re as excited as we are that the Class of 2023 has chosen to support education abroad with their class gift this year!

CGI is hiring, and we want you to apply!

Where is your barbie studying abroad?!

It’s not too late to apply to study abroad next year!

Wishing everyone a bright and sunny spring break ☀️

Stay tuned for student takeovers on our page this week!

Go check out our first video
More coming 🔜

Raise your hand if you wish you were abroad right now 🙋🏻‍♀️

Double down and get those Dublin applications done ‼️

Remember to turn in your application if you want to spend your summer in beautiful Barcelona 🇪🇸🇪🇸

Once in a lifetime experiences!! From everyone on IBUS 3002, thanks for tuning in today!! Argentina and Chile have both been surreal experiences! Glad we were able to share with all of you!!

More photos from Morocco!

We MBAs want to share some photos from our trip to Morocco. We’re having a great time learning about entrepreneurship and sustainability! 🇲🇦

Kia ora from a few of us in IBUS 3019 in New Zealand! Today, we were fortunate enough to visit the Kate Sheppard House to learn about her leadership in the women’s suffrage movement in New Zealand. We’ve been learning so much during this trip, and we can’t wait for more!

IBUS 6403 in Ghana was fortunate enough to be hosted by , where we were able to hear Kim Addison of and Selassie Atadika of speak about their experiences as small business owners in the chocolate industry. We rounded out the day with an INCREDIBLE dinner provided by Crescendo, created by the amazing chefs Rita and Rafiatu with chocolate featured in every course!

Michael at Tetteh Quarshie’s original cocoa farm, showing us how Ghanaian cocoa farmers process cocoa pods into the nibs that are then sent to be turned into chocolate bars. Tetteh Quarshie was the first to bring cocoa to Ghana, smuggling the beans here from Equatorial Guinea. Two of his original trees, planted in 1879 still grow and produce cocoa at this farm!

Akwaaba from Elise traveling with IBUS 6403: Ghana Grows! We spent our third official morning here at the Aburi Botanical Garden, and Tetteh Quarshie’s cocoa farm—the first in Ghana!

A huge thank you to for the "sweet" lesson on the agriculture industry in Argentina!