Smith’s Global Reach

Smith is a global college. While you are here, you will tailor your education to who you are as an individual and who you are becoming. When you graduate, you will leave Smith with the personal and intellectual capacities to transform your community and change the world. 

From your first days on campus, you will engage with international and intercultural issues. You’ll forge cross-cultural friendships while you live and study with 2,500 women from across the country and around the world. You’ll design a program of in-class and out-of-class global leadership experiences. And you’ll choose from a wide variety of courses across the curriculum that explore languages and cultures.

If you want broader horizons, you can find a study away experience that piques your interest. Close to half of Smith’s students spend time abroad before they graduate. Travel to locations around the globe with faculty-led programs during January interterm or work at a summer internship. Spend a semester or academic year on one of Smith’s programs in Florence, Geneva, Hamburg and Paris. You can also choose from Smith’s consortial and approved programs in places like Spain, Japan, India, Mexico, Morocco, Jordan or the South Pacific. The college encourages students from all academic disciplines, including the sciences and engineering, to become informed global citizens and to engage with communities beyond Smith.