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- Helpful Hints For Studying Abroad
Before departing for their destinations abroad, students planning to study overseas encounter many clerical tasks involved with the preparations of their travels.
- Studying Abroad a Great Experience
Studying abroad is something that I have wanted to do my whole life and I finally get to do it!
- Students Experience Culture Shock In Reverse After Returning Home
Each semester many students who studied abroad return home with reverse culture shock.
- Weak Dollar Hurts Students Abroad
The falling exchange rate of the US dollar makes it increasingly difficult for College students studying abroad.
- Study Abroad Safety Tips for Female Students
Studying abroad is often associated with excitement, personal growth, and cultural awareness. But students should be aware that in some study abroad destinations, keeping safety in mind is just as important.
- Study Abroad Students Receive the Experience of a Lifetime
For some college students, being on campus provides the home-away-from-home atmosphere that helps them with experiencing new beginnings, but some students need to cross the borders to fully experience what life has to offer.
- Travel Health - Plan or Your Study Abroad Health Needs
In order to stay healthy during your study abroad experience, you'll need to take a few precautions before you ever set foot on a plane.
- What Type of Plane Tickets Should I Buy?
In the real world - the one you'll be forced to enter after college, that terrifying landscape of smelly office microwaves and two measly weeks of paid vacation every year - you'll never have the option of staying abroad as long as you'd like so you'll probably want to take advantage of the opportunity to do so now.
- World University Rankings
For the third year in a row, the educational magazine Times Higher Education Supplement and the consulting firm Qacquarelli Symonds have published the World University Rankings study that classifies world universities according to indicators such as peer reviewing, teacher-to-student ratio, internationalization rates and number of research citations.
- 5 Steps to Thinking Local
Let's face it: we North Americans are pretty...how to put it...picky? We're used to things the way we like them.
- The Benefit of Learning Spanish in its Cultural Context
Spanish is becoming an increasingly valuable commodity.
- How to Score a Great Internship Abroad
First things first, getting a job is a job in itself. It takes time and effort to find a situation that works best for your personality and needs (location, salary, schedule, etc).
- 5 Points to Understanding Internships Abroad
For all interns out there who are fearful of fax machines and tired of dealing with stubborn copiers, I have good news: the American internship model is slowly changing. However, the change isn't necessarily occurring within American borders.
- Job Strategies While Studying Abroad
The new world economy demands that we have international experience as part of our training, and studying abroad is a powerful way to acquire these credentials. You should start thinking about your career before you leave home.
- Staying in Touch While You're Studying Abroad
If you're considering studying abroad, no doubt it's occurred to you that you might occasionally (or often) talk with the people you know and love back home.
- Financial Aid for Studying Abroad
You may be surprised at how cost-effective a semester or year abroad can be.
- Using Your International Experience to Get a Job - Résumé and Interviewing Tips
You've probably heard from someone along the way that studying abroad will help you get a job later.
- Study Abroad to Get a Job??
What are the main reasons that you've typically heard people use to encourage you to study abroad?
- Try Something New Every Day!
No matter what kind of study abroad program you choose -- from spending a semester at a foreign outpost of your home school to enrolling in a private university and taking classes with the local students -- you will, as soon as you arrive, realize that you're not in Kansas anymore.
- Preparing to Study Abroad - The Logistics of Packing, Researching, and Planning
The hardest part of the study abroad experience -- more difficult than any potential culture-shock, more taxing than any amount of time you'll spend away from that new girlfriend or boyfriend you've recently fallen so deeply in love with -- is preparing for it.
- Choosing the Perfect Program
Choosing the right study abroad program is almost as big a decision as deciding to study abroad in the first place.
- The Four F's: Overcoming Barriers to Study Abroad
The 4 F's of Studying Abroad were first conceived by Dr. Marjorie Ganz, Director of the Study Abroad & International Exchange Program at Spelman College.
- How to Manage Your Time, Money, and Yourself While Abroad
In order to manage your time, you need to prioritize.
- Maximizing Your Study Abroad Experience: The Three E's
Interested in Studying Abroad? Why would you not be? And we are here to help.
- Maximizing Your Study Abroad Experience: While You're There
So you've selected a study abroad program, applied and been accepted.
- The IIEPassport Student Guide to Studying Abroad
It's Your World: Student's Guide to Education Abroad
During the past year, the U.S. dollar has declined nearly twenty percent against the euro.
We tend to think of studying abroad as just another option; one program out there among many for students