The Scholar Ship was a recognized academic program aboard a modified Royal Caribbean Cruises passenger ship hosting both undergraduate and postgraduate students on semester-long voyages around the world. Participants from diverse cultural backgrounds came together to create a transnational learning community designed to develop their intercultural competence. The discontinuation of the program was announced in June 2008.
Programs aboard the Scholar Ship were 16 weeks in duration. One was run in 2007 and another in 2008.
Approximately 200 students from 35 countries participated in the inaugural voyage which sailed on September 5, 2007. The second voyage embarked from Hong Kong on January 2, 2008 and ended in Amsterdam, Netherlands in April 2008.
Read more about The Scholar Ship: Academic Steward Institutions, Academic Programs, Port Program, Onboard Residential Life, The Ship, September 2007, January 2008, Alumni Involvement, Financial Difficulties
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