The International Student Blog

Known as “America’s pastime,” the sport of baseball has a large following both inside the US and around the world. The highest level of baseball in the US is Major League Baseball (MLB). MLB touches on a huge amount of content, as most of the 162 regular season games played by 30 different teams are [...]

Video games are a childhood and household staple in the United States. With more gamers come more gaming titles and bigger development budgets. In fact, many mainstream video games boast production values of over $20 million. Video games are a thriving industry in the US economy, and for many international students who feel passionate about [...]

You may have a pretty good idea of what standard business coursework looks like. There are classes on accounting, management, human resources, etc. But what about international business? When you study international business in the US your coursework looks a little different. Some of the titles seem similar, but when business crosses borders it’s a [...]

With English majors found all over the country at just about every college these days, students looking for a degree in literature in the US face an astounding array of options. Let’s take a look at one great choice: studying literature at SUNY Brockport, part of the State University of New York in the upstate [...]

For many international students a hospitality internship in the US is a fun way to gain educational experience and live someplace exciting. Most state tourism destinations are not only fun to visit, but great to live in as well. Take Florida for example, there are many internship programs available in the Sunshine State for international [...]

If you are not taking classes or if your load is lighter than usual this summer, you might be wrestling with the following question: “summer job or summer internship?” The choice between a summer job or summer internship is an important one, and should be made with the full knowledge of what your options are. [...]

International students studying film will most likely be taking a variety of classes dealing with not only shooting video, but editing, producing, directing and much more. But the art of screenwriting is possibly one of the most important classes aspiring film majors can take and a major reason why people study film. Without a screenplay, [...]

We tend to have a pretty universal idea of what recording an album is like. We imagine the band or artist in a specialized room singing or performing into specialized microphones. Facing them is a large glass window with the production team on the other side at the helm of a massive sound board. In [...]

In the state of New York it’s the illustrious New York City, with all its size and hundreds of TV and radio stations, that seems to get all the attention from students looking for a degree in broadcasting. But this is a grave mistake, as there is also the opportunity to study broadcasting at Syracuse University in [...]

If you’re an international student who is interested in studying medicine in the US, you may be wondering what the difference is between an M.D. (Doctor of Medicine) and an D.O. (Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine) degree, and which program is best for you. Both M.D. and D.O. degrees require students to attend medical school for [...]