Study Abroad
Harriot College prepares you with the knowledge, skills, and values you need to succeed in a global society. As a student, you have the opportunity to take various foreign languages and study abroad for a semester, a year, or during a summer program. Our students have traveled to and studied in various cities throughout more than 24 countries and islands, within all six populated continents around the globe, including Costa Rica, Bali, Brazil, England, Ireland, Tuscany, Spain, South Africa, China, and Japan, among others.
More than two dozen Harriot College faculty participate in faculty-led study abroad experiences, and Harriot College is committed to making your study abroad experience as affordable as possible. This is why we have partnered with the ECU Office of Global Affairs to offer you scholarships for study abroad.
The deadlines, many of which are mid-October, are for spring or summer study abroad programs. A second call for summer and fall semester study abroad programs will be made in November.
As an example of study abroad opportunities, attached are a few of the exciting Harriot College-sponsored study abroad programs for summer of 2025. Harriot College 2025 Spring and Summer Study Abroad Programs
Apply for Study Abroad Scholarships
Apply for study abroad scholarship by first submitting your general application via ECUAward and then click and apply for any of the listed scholarships.
Additional study abroad scholarships may be found through the Pirates Abroad website.
For students receiving financial aid, these scholarships may be used, in addition to your financial aid funds, to fund study abroad expenses.
Examples of ECU Study Abroad Scholarships
Open to ALL ECU Students
- Eugene E. Ryan Memorial Scholarship (preference to study abroad at University of Ferrara in Italy during spring semester)
- Thomas W. Rivers Foreign Exchange Scholarship
- Warren Scholarship
Open to students involved in the Dr. Jesse R. Peel LGBTQ Center
- The Peel LGBTQ Center Dream Big Study Abroad Scholarship
Open to all Harriot College majors
- Mullen Scholarship
- Wooten Scholarship
- Bedford Scholarship
Open to Harriot College majors from Craven, Jones, or Pamlico Counties
- Harold H. Bate Study Abroad Scholarship
Open to Harriot College majors on a study abroad program to India focusing on religions of India
- International India Studies Scholarship
Open to specific Harriot College majors/minors
- Anthropology major – Bort Scholarship
- Biology major – Slate Scholarship
- English major – Price Scholarship
- French major or minor – French Priority Fund Scholarship
- Geography, Planning, and Environment major – Cramer Scholarship
- German major or minor – German Studies Endowed Scholarship Fund
-
- For six weeks during the summer of 2018, five ECU students traveled to China under the direction of Drs. Baohong Zhang and Xiaoping Pan, associate professors in the Department of Biology. The students visited the China Agriculture University in Beijing; Henan Institute of Science and Technology in Xinxiang, Henan Province; Anyang Institute of Technology in Anyang, Henan Province; and Xi’An, Shanxi Province. (Left to right) Dr. Baohong Zhang, Isaac Pratt, Kyle Davis, Julia Fontana, Thomas Thornburg, Kevin Chen, and Dr. Pan’s son Henry Zhang (front).
-
- ECU students Briana McRae and Amanda Curran visited the John Lennon Wall in Prague in the summer of 2018. Since the 1980s, the wall has been filled with John Lennon-inspired artwork and lyrics from Beatles’ songs.
-
- Six ECU students traveled to Northern Spain with Dr. Katie Ford, professor of Spanish in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, and Dr. Todd Fraley, Honors College faculty fellow. Seen here at the Madrid Royal Palace (left to right) are Dr. Katie Ford, Ethan Quinn, Dr. Todd Fraley and his son Keller (holding the ECU flag), Omar Sharaf, Austin Allen, Madigan Raper, Adelaide Robbins and Njisha Johnson.
-
- Prior to returning to the United States in March 2020, due to the coronavirus, Sabree Flood (left) and six of her study abroad classmates went on an excursion to San Sebastian, Spain, to see the Basque Country. In the background is “La Concha” beach and the city of San Sebastian- Donostia.
-
- ECU students Touri Jousma and Maggie Baile visited Certaldo Alto, Italy, in February 2020, before returning to the United States due to the coronavirus.
-
- Dr. Magda Giurcanu (left), teaching assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, led seven ECU students to Prague, Czech Republic, as part of her 11-week course on “Prague in Context: Politics in East Central Europe.” The program examined the country’s role in international affairs, combining geography, history, politics and current events.