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You’ve heard from our staff. Now, hear from other students!

The NYU Global Ambassadors, an organization of Study Abroad returnee students, have compiled all their experiences, stories, and knowledge gained from their time abroad to create the NYU Student-Authored Study Abroad Guides.  

• NYU Student-to-Student Guide: Florence

Topic-Specific Guides

 The Topic-Specific Guides are meant to tackle issues that are not always discussed in other guidebooks or about which students may not feel comfortable asking. 

• NYU Student-to-Student Guide: Euro Travel
• NYU Student-to-Student Guide: LGBT
• NYU Student-to-Student Guide: Lost in Translation
• NYU Student-to-Student Guide: Religion
• NYU Student-to-Student Guide: Reverse Culture Shock
• NYU Student-to-Student Guide: Women

Additional Site-Specific Guides

These guides will give you detailed information about your site from a student perspective. Which café in Paris do all the locals visit?  What do you absolutely have to see while in Accra? How can you deal with culture shock in Shanghai?

• NYU Student-to-Student Guide: Accra
• NYU Student-to-Student Guide: Berlin
• NYU Student-to-Student Guide: Buenos Aires
• NYU Student-to-Student Guide: London
• NYU Student-to-Student Guide: Madrid
• NYU Student-to-Student Guide: Paris
• NYU Student-to-Student Guide: Prague
• NYU Student-to-Student Guide: Shanghai
• NYU Student-to-Student Guide: Tel Aviv