The International Student Blog

No one likes debt, especially student debt, and these days more and more students are graduating with it. To make matters worse, jobs have become scarce these last few years. The combination of these two things has inspired a student organization known as FixUC to look for creative new ways to restructure how students pay […]

On June 14, 2012, America celebrated what would have been Woody Guthrie’s 100th birthday. It would be difficult to name another figure as prominent in early folk music as Guthrie. Over his relatively brief career he penned somewhere around 3,000 songs, including the famous “This Land is Your Land.” This single track is held in […]

Did you enjoy last month’s guest post from GoAbroad.com on student visas? If so, then you will enjoy this blog as part of a larger series on helpful tips for study abroad students.  Money, or a lack of money, is the main culprit preventing students from studying abroad. You’re a poor college student, we get […]

Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? A star-spangled banner still waves over Fort McHenry. International students that study in Maryland will want to take a trip to Fort McHenry to learn a little bit about American history and see the birthplace […]

Omaha is Nebraska’s largest city and is the nation’s 42nd largest city with a population of 427,872. International students who want to study in Nebraska will find that over five higher learning institutions are located in this bustling city of commerce including the University of Nebraska, Nebraska Methodist College, Clarkson College and Grace University. Colleges […]

The Juilliard School, is synonymous with performing arts excellence. Founded in 1905 under the name Institute of Musical Art, it has undergone several notable changes in its hundred-year history. Initially established to compensate for the lack of performing arts schools in the United States (many American students instead turned to Europe to study music), the […]

It takes an adventurous soul to come to a new country to study. An international student studying in Idaho will find that adventure beckons at every turn, or in this case, river bend. Often called the “Whitewater State,” unofficially, whitewater rafting is one of the most popular sports in Idaho. There are over 3,000 miles […]

We are excited to introduce our newest partnership with GoAbroad.com. They have been around since 1999 providing comprehensive online resources for students planning to travel overseas. Today, they will feature some helpful tips on travel visas – an important issue facing any international students planning to go abroad. Visas may be one of the most […]

According to a recent article from Inside Higher Ed reports, foreign languages are becoming a thing of the past. There is no need to worry, however. This trend is not the result of language extinction or even of the rise of English as a global lingua franca. No, instead this trend – borne out by […]

Studying abroad is increasingly becoming a quintessential part of the undergraduate experience. As the data from the Institute of International Education’s annual Open Doors report can attest, the number of students studying abroad (and the number of international students studying in the US) continues to grow with each passing year. It is not just college […]