Students Currently Abroad
Participants can use the learning content in your online program application account to help answer questions that they might have while abroad. You can also contact our office at iegi@binghamton.edu if you have any questions that are not answered with the information in this packet.
Communicating with Home
Registering for Classes
While you are abroad attending a Binghamton or SUNY program, you’ll be registered for generic placeholder education-abroad credits; students on a semester program are registered for 12 placeholder credits. Add these placeholder credits to your prior semester completed credit total to determine your time ticket for advance registration. Unfortunately, even if you are completing more than 12 credits while abroad, you will still have to pre-register based on the 12 placeholder credits.
If you are on a non-SUNY program, you are not registered at Binghamton University and will have to complete advanced registration based on the prior semester’s credit total. To register for classes from abroad, visit the BU Brain at my.binghamton.edu. If you have questions about how to register online via the BU Brain, visit the Student Records Office's website.
Health and Safety
Consult our health and safety webpage for information about supporting your overall health while abroad, using the SUNY health insurance policy, and staying safe.
On-Campus Housing When You Return
Students on Binghamton and SUNY programs will receive a reminder e-mail notification in February and October about how to secure housing for the following semester. There are two ways in which you can reserve housing:
- If you know a current resident who will have a vacancy in their room, suite, or apartment for the following semester, that student can request you as their future room, suite, or apartment mate during the Housing Reassignment process in March/November. Your $200 housing deposit must be paid before the student can complete this paperwork.
- If a current resident does not request you as their room, suite, or apartment mate, the Office of Residential Life will assign you. First, pay your $200 housing deposit. If paid, you will then receive an e-mail in March/November telling you when you can log onto the Residential Life website and submit your housing preferences on-line. Once the Housing Reassignment process is complete for current residents, you will be assigned to a room.
Students on non-SUNY programs are effectively on “leave of absence, ” and normally are not eligible for on-campus housing. Students may contact Residential Life to request to be place on a waiting list for on-campus housing for their return to campus.