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This Is Tu Mundo. Explore It.

Our Tu Mundo Initiative was designed to help more students from established and emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) study abroad, Tu Mundo is an integral part of our mission to educate global leaders.

We partner with HSIs to offer them and their students a range of hands-on and dedicated student programming—from personalized study abroad scholarship-writing sessions to airfare giveaways. Looking to bring Tu Mundo to your campus? Learn more about the details and contact us! We'd love to chat.

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Study Abroad

Study abroad is more than going from here to there. It’s an exhilarating challenge of academic and cultural immersion, plus a whole lot of fun. With programs in dozens of locations around the world and in a wide variety of disciplines, you're sure to find a program that best fits your study abroad goals.

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Intern Abroad

Add global brilliance to your résumé with an internship abroad. Whether you intern abroad full-time or add a part-time internship to your study abroad experience, you'll have the opportunity to work with local professionals and gain meaningful work experience.

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Why IES Abroad

Your experience abroad is all about learning and exploring—so that's what we're all about. As a not-for-profit study abroad and internship provider, you are our bottom line. Your success is our success. And in today’s world, that’s a pretty extraordinary thing. Discover more about what sets us apart.

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Have (and share!) all of these details and more about our Tu Mundo Initiative right at your fingerprints with our digital Tu Mundo Brochure.

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We know that families are an essential part of the journey when deciding to study or intern abroad. That's why we have a variety of resources for parents including the Spanish Parent Guide!

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From diversity scholarships to LGBTQ+ resources, we're proud to offer the best diversity and inclusion resources in study abroad.

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We're Celebrating 17,000+ Diverse Students

In 2018, IES Abroad proudly marked the first 10 years of our Initiative to Diversify Education Abroad (IDEA): an innovative, sustained access and diversity effort that has now inspired nearly 18,000 multifaceted students to study and intern abroad. Join us in celebrating this milestone and a #worldofdifference as we share study abroad stories of underrepresented students.

READ THEIR STORIES

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Named for our Initiative to Diversify Education Abroad, IDEA Correspondents are students of diverse background, in regards to race, ethnicity, sexual orientation/identity, gender identity/expression, non-traditional major, physical/mental health/learning ability, socio-economic status, and/or as first-generation in their family to attend college, who share how their identities intersect with their study abroad experience.

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Intensive scholarship writing session

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Scholarship Info Session

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Discussion of community-based learning, internship, and volunteer opportunities

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A conversation on the intersectionality of identities in study abroad

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Résumé templates and training on integrating study abroad into your career search

Studying abroad has made me more aware of what I want to do with my life.

Omar N. | IES Abroad Tokyo, Summer 2018 (University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)
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Let's Talk!

Hernando is the Senior Diversity Relations Manager at IES Abroad and holds a Bachelor's degree in History and Political Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. While at the University, Hernando studied abroad in five different countries: short-term, faculty-led programs in Costa Rica, Cuba, and China, as well as spending a semester each in Spain and Brazil. He was also a recipient of the Gates Millennium and QuestBridge scholarships.

Reach out to Hernando if you have any questions about the Tu Mundo initiative or navigating the study abroad experience.

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Tu Mundo in the News
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Hear from some recent IES Abroad alums as they debunk some common misconceptions about being Latinx abroad. 

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Hear from Omar, Nancy, and Ricardo, three students from The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley who studied abroad with us in Tokyo in IES Abroad Customized Program Introduces Latinx Students to Japanese Culture.

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Senior Diversity Relations Manager Hernando Sevilla-Garcia shares his experience exchanging "revolutionary ideas with some of the brightest minds from around the globe" in A Weekend at The Clinton Global Initiative-University: Engaging Hispanic-Serving Institutions.

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We love the schools we work with, as well as the work we do.  That's why our Diversity Relations team spent a night celebrating Hispanic Serving Institutions and the Latinx community during the Annual 2019 HACU conference. 

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