- Fashion Design and Merchandising students travel to the Highlands of Guatemala to work with impoverished women to incorporate their weavings and embroidery into a contemporary fashion line
- Communication Arts students have the opportunity to travel to Florence, Italy in the summer for course credit
- Art Education students travel abroad for various service-learning opportunities
- The VCU Office of International Education offers numerous study abroad options
- Select VCUarts students travel to Doha, Qatar for the International Design Conference, Tasmeem
- VCUarts students study in Peru every summer and at the Glasgow School of the Arts in Scotland every other year
- Many travel scholarships are available including the VCUarts Dean’s International Travel Grants
- The summer program in Peru is offered through the Office of International Education and VCUarts