The Foreign Service Journal, June 2025

EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT 68 JUNE 2025 | THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL Another option is to look for a “joint degree,” for which students spend time on two or more campuses and earn one, two, or even three degrees in the time it usually takes to complete one. significant number of joint degree options, most of which include coursework on two or three different continents, but you will be able to find a joint degree option for almost any field of study. You can earn two bachelor’s degrees by studying tourism in Dublin, London, and the U.S. as part of Schiller University’s joint degree partnerships with the Dublin Business School and the University of Roehampton; neuroscience at Trinity Dublin and Columbia in New York; law at St. John’s in New York and Goldsmith’s in London; fashion design or marine engineering at the State University of New York (SUNY) and one of seven universities in Türkiye. And for those who are hoping to get both an undergraduate and a graduate degree in five years, programs in computer science, engineering, and communications are offered via partnerships tied to Carnegie Mellon, Columbia, and Emerson College. Traveling Universities. A “traveling university” is much more unusual. These programs require that students transfer between campuses regularly. At Minerva University, for example, students spend their first year in San Francisco and then rotate each year to campuses in global capital cities. Long Island University’s Global degree (LIU Global) offers the reverse, three years at various locations abroad, capped with a final year at LIU’s Brooklyn campus.

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