<p>i just visited NYU yesterday and i really liked their study abroad offerings. but i'm not sure if i'm the right fit for that school b/c i'm more of a laid back girl who'd rather spend a day at the beach w/friends than go to a noisy city w/ too many cars, too much traffic, and too many ppl.</p>
<p>but i absolutely LOVE traveling to visiting different places (with LOTS of emphasis). what are some top schools w/top study abroad opportunities or programs?</p>
<p>Here's Dartmouth's Off-Campus Programs website. More than half of Dartmouth students study abroad, and it's certainly not in a big, noisy city.</p>
<p>Something like 70% of Richmond's undergrads study abroad during their years at UR, and we've got over 75 programs that will take you just about anywhere you want to go. I'm heading abroad on one of UR's programs this fall (London), and most of my friends are going abroad as well (France, Senegal, Ireland are the ones I can remember right now). Our Office of International Education offers a lot of support, too: Office</a> of International Education</p>
<p>Forgot to add--there are also summer abroad programs, internship programs abroad, community service initiatives abroad over breaks, and classes that spend a week or so abroad as part of the course. My roommate went to Vienna with a class for a week during spring break this year, I had theater friends who just got back from Italy, and I recently received an email about an American Studies class that is going to...Stockholm, I believe, next spring.</p>
<p>This is pretty irrelevant, I think, as most students at top schools go abroad with programs that are not school-sponsored, and I think it is much better that way. (Why go abroad if you'll be staying with the same group of people? Get out of your comfort zone a little. I also would pay little attention to the list showing the percentage of students studying abroad - some schools report students going on three week programs, which really inflates their numbers.</p>
<p>not school-sponsored? where do u find those?</p>
<p>Most universities offer study-abroad. Just check out their websites.</p>
<p>I think unregistered means not sponsored by the school you're attending. I think it has to be sponsored by some school if it's "study"-abroad.</p>
<p>I've visited at least a dozen colleges with my two kids and all of them had study abroads. It's kind of the normal thing now. Most of my kids friends (unless they are in engineering) fit in a study abroad if they wanted one. My daughter did one in Peru and my son is going to one in England this fall. Don't worry about if the "top schools" have them. They all do!</p>
<p>Syracuse University is renowned for their study abroad programs especially in Florence, Italy.</p>
<p>Tufts encourages all juniors to study abroad - so much that they don't offer housing junior year. They are pretty internationally-focused, so I'm sure they have a lot of good study abroad programs/connections.</p>
<p>D is at Willamette and they seem to have a lot of kids studying abroad, especially in the fall. She is down in Ecuador now along with 16 others, all living with host families. Left mid July, has already gone to the Galapagos for a week (included in study abroad program along with a 3 week intensive language program plus optional dance lessons!)</p>
<p>I love how when the OP asks about "top schools" people here respond with URichmond, Syracuse, and whatever else</p>
<p>Well, the OP did start out with NYU, which is certainly on par with other schools suggested here.</p>
<p>Btw, OP, you can attend any university, and apply for other school's study abroad programs, including NYU's programs. There are some schools that may not interest you, due to size or location, like Beloit and Acadia, but they have an amazing array of programs. You attend the school of your choice, and then you look for a study abroad program that meets your needs as far as location, language, subjects, and most importantly getting credit from your own university.</p>
<p>Watson. Just curious. What top school do/did/will you attend? Do/did/will you study abroad?</p>
<p>thanks for all ur help guys!</p>
<p>No, it doesn't have to be sponsored by any American school. An American student can apply directly into a overseas school for a year, or even a semester. That's what my D did. She was befriended by locals and only made one American friend. She had a much more interesting experience than her friends who used school sponsored programs.</p>
<p>Her roommates were all locals, and the suite was coed.</p>
<p>She had a blast.</p>
<p>Watson, I think we were trying to point out to the OP that study abroads are now very commonplace and that she can get that experience at any school.
Oh never mind, I see from your other posts that you just like to p*ss people off in general. Good job!</p>
<p>Most study abroad are pretty laid back unless it's all languages (as in if you have to take classes in the host country's language if it's not English). Go for the cheapest and best fir for you. If you're more of a beach girl, look down in Australia, South Africa, Israel, non-US university sponsored programs in Italy, Greece, and Barcelona. If you truly want travel experience (as in avoid western Europe), there are plenty of those in the Middle East (largely Israel, Turkey, Jordan), South America, Southeast Asia, and some African nations (Egypt, South Africa, Ghana, Tanzania, Morocco).</p>
<p>The most important thing is that your school approves the credits so you can graduate on time. And you just pass the classes if the grades don't transfer over- that's the best deal :)</p>
<p>Dartmouth study abroad couldn't be better. Also there are countless grants for pre-thesis international study (I got one for anthro to do research on a pacific island - got $10K to do it). Dartmouth is unique in that programs are chaperoned by dartmouth professors (with local teachers teaching as well at top local unis), have exclusively dartmouth students, and have huge grants for weekend study trips to museums, monasteries, etc. Also Dartmouth programs are not only for languages, but also for majors...ie. philosophy at Edinburgh, Anthro in Aukland, NZ, etc.</p>
<p>Middlebury is also great</p>