The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences offers many opportunities for students to study abroad.

Travel courses

Recurring travel courses:

• Ag Business/Agronomy travel course — spring and winter travel courses in various countries

• China — summer travel course

• Dean’s Leadership Program — summer travel courses in Rome

• Ghana — winter travel course

• Horticulture travel courses — summer travel courses in various countries

• India — summer travel course on alternating year

• Panama — summer travel course on alternating year

• Peru — summer travel course on alternating year

• Uganda — summer service-learning program

Current travel courses:

Winter 2010-11

• Panama — tropical agricultural production, international business and trade in Panama — agronomy, economics and GAP — application deadline: closed

• Ecuador — soils and crops in Ecuador — agronomy — application deadline: closed

Spring 2011

• Australia — agricultural production, business and trade in Australia —agronomy, economics — application deadline: Nov. 11

• Costa Rica — soils, crops, and water of Costa Rica — agronomy —application deadline: Nov. 15

• Costa Rica — integrated management of tropical crops — plant pathology, entomology and horticulture — application deadline: TBA

Summer 2011

• Brazil — agricultural technology and automation adoption in Brazil — ABE

• China — study abroad program to China — NREM

• Europe — study abroad program to Denmark, Germany and Poland — ABE

• Europe — comparison of American and European manufacturing/management techniques and procedures

• Ghana — ecological zones and natural resource management

• Greece and Turkey — study abroad program to Greece and Turkey

• Ireland — horticulture study abroad program to Ireland

• Italy — Dean’s Global Agriculture and Food Leadership Program: Rome

• Panama — ISU in Panama: Sustainable Development in the Tropics

• Uganda — service learning in Uganda 

• Ukraine & Bulgaria — study abroad program to Ukraine 

Exchanges

Australia — La Trobe University

Austria — BOKU — University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences

Brazil — Federal University of ViÇosa, Federal University of Campina Grande

Canada — Nova Scotia Agricultural College, Truro, Nova Scotia

Canada — The Marine Institute of MUN, St. Johns, Newfoundland

Costa Rica — University of Costa Rica

England — Royal Agriculture College

France — Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais

Germany — Hohenheim University

Ireland — University College Dublin

Mexico — Autonomous University in Baja — Inactive due to Travel Warning

Mexico — Technological Institute of the Oaxaca Valley (ITVO) — inactve due to travel warning

Internships

(Iowa State/ISU-affliated internships)

• China — internship with Blue-Sky Landscape Company (check with the office)

• Greece — American Farm School

• Spain — summer internship in Spain (check with the office)

• The Borlaug Summer Internship Program

• Thailand — summer internship in King Mongkut’s Institue of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok

• RISE Summer Internship in Germany

(Non-ISU internships)

• Indonesia — Freeman Indonesia Nonprofit Internship Program

• The World Food Prize Foundation — George Washington Carver Internship

• U.S. Department of State Summer 2010 Internship Program is available