Jan 27
GLOBAL & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES BUILDING
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One of the leaders in Boren award recipients
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1100+Courses in policy, languages, cultures, and leadership
380+Study abroad opportunities
70+Languages
Your global future starts here
At the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, you’ll do more than earn a degree — you’ll prepare to shape the world.
Whether you’re taking the first step toward your future or advancing your career, Hamilton Lugar connects your passions to real-world impact. From foreign policy and cybersecurity to climate change and human rights, our programs prepare you to tackle today’s most pressing global challenges.
Why Hamilton Lugar?
- World-class faculty: Learn from former diplomats, humanitarian aid workers, linguists, and global leaders.
- Global reach: Choose from 1100+ courses in policy, languages, cultures, and leadership, with 70+ languages and 380+ study abroad opportunities to expand your horizons.
- Career-ready graduates: Our alumni lead in government, NGOs, business, and top organizations like the CIA, U.S. State Department, and United Nations.
- Flexible paths: Undergraduate, graduate, and certificate programs you can combine with any IU major or professional goal.
Wherever you are on your journey
- Undergraduate students: Discover programs designed to launch your global career — and make your first year unforgettable.
- Graduate students: Deepen your expertise, build powerful networks, and position yourself to lead on a worldwide stage.
Your path to global impact starts here
Driving Passions with Expertise
Our undergraduate, graduate, and certificate programs open realms of possibility and discovery. You can pursue direct involvement in foreign policy or combine a Hamilton Lugar School program with any other IU major to prepare for the exact career that drives your passion.
Expert faculty bring their passion as mentors and thinkers to each major and minor, master’s and doctoral program, and language and professional certificate. They are scholars on human rights and climate change studies, linguists and sociologists, former humanitarian aid workers and diplomats. These teachers and doers are proud to represent an international affairs school and to foster the next generation of international policy-makers.
See how our faculty, students, and alumni are shaping conversations on today’s most pressing global challenges.
Embrace the challenge
“The world has always been of interest to me. Whether that was excelling in my Spanish classes and diving into Latin American cultures, learning about the colonial French roots of my parents’ home country of Guinea, or researching my religion and how the Arabian Peninsula influenced it.”
Ramatou Soumare
International Law and Institutions, class of 2022; Ramatou gave the student introduction for U.S. Secretary of Transportation
Pete Buttigieg’s foreign policy speech at the IU Auditorium in June 2019.
Speaking Globally
We teach more languages than any other university in the United States, with more than 80 program offerings from regions across the globe. We are distinct among international relations schools for our dedication to deep cultural fluency and our broad scope of cultural investment, from Arabic to Mongolian to Zulu.
Opportunities Outside the Classroom and Country
Indiana University stands out among international affairs colleges for its bustling student organizations, clubs, and service learning projects that bring degrees in global studies and international politics out of the classroom and into everyday life. You can also take your learning to more than 52 countries through IU’s study abroad programs.
Set the standard
#1Number of foreign languages taught in the US
#1Available Foreign Language & Area Studies Fellowships
70%Undergraduate students travel abroad
Launching Your Career
From your earliest days on campus, you will have access to career development workshops and programs dedicated to your professional prospects. We offer one-on-one coaching, a mentoring program, and events with experts, recruiters, and Hamilton Lugar School alumni. You can earn a competitive internship and carry your international politics degree into an impactful career with organizations like the United Nations, the Peace Corps, and the US Department of State.
Follow Your Future at Hamilton Lugar School
We are committed to supporting and empowering your journey at Indiana University. Let us know how we can help nurture your world-changing ideas; once you’re here, we will equip you with the knowledge and expertise to put them into action.
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Hi, I'm John Ciorciari, dean of the Hamilton Luger School of Global and International Studies. As we start a new semester and new year, I wanted to share a few updates about our academic offerings. You may have heard in the news that some degree programs are changing at IU and across the state. That's true, and the changes we're making at Hamilton Luger are going to make us even stronger than before. Our mission is the same, giving students the knowledge of international affairs, world regions, and languages they need to thrive in globally oriented careers. But we're updating some of our degrees and majors to enhance the connections between international and regional studies. Students enrolled in all our existing degrees will be able to continue and complete them, but we're also developing new degrees for undergraduates and for master's students. Students will still be able to focus on specific world regions, drawing on the area studies expertise that's a hallmark of Hamilton, Luger, and IU. They'll also be able to take some exciting new thematic courses that cut across, compare, and connect various parts of the world. Students will still be able to study more than 70 different languages at IU, giving them the tools to be effective working in localities around the globe. And we're creating new co-curricular activities that build student skills like pre-arranged internships, policy workshops and simulations, new study abroad programs, and our new semesterl long program in Washington DC. In short, students get more choices, more freedom, more options to build skills and knowledge inside and outside the classroom. I hope you'll come visit for one of our many public events to see some of the exciting things happening at the Hamilton Luger School this year.
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#1Language Flagship programs in the US
#1Boren Scholars
Top 16Fulbright Scholars
Train on the world stage
"I’ve had the opportunity to intern with the U.S. Department of State at the US Consulate in Guangzhou, China and studied abroad in Seoul, South Korea at Yonsei University. I also had the opportunity to attend the 63rd session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women with Professor Shruti Rana as a student delegate. I was also one of the first students to switch my major to International Law and Institutions. This joint degree between the Hamilton Lugar School and the Maurer School of Law helps students like me develop the expertise needed to make an impact after graduation."
Kimber Garland
International Law, East Asian Languages & Cultures and International Law & Institutions, class of 2020
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Language Flagship Programs
The Hamilton Lugar School houses Language Flagship programs in Arabic and Chinese (Mandarin). Indiana University is home to three programs, the most in the country.
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Hamilton Lugar School Living-Learning Center
The LLC is a close-knit residential community for globally minded students who take part in a tailored program of activities that bridge the classroom with the world.
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Financial aid
School-, university-, and government-funded financial aid is available for tuition, Scholarships funded by the school, university, and government are available for tuition, internships, and study abroad.
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Taiwanese (Taigi) Language Corner
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Portable Pilgrimage: Visiting the Prophet Muhammad in Mughal India
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Jan 29
Behind the Scenes of Peace: Dinner with Cecily Brewer
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