Orientation

As part of your semester with NYU at AUP, you’ll participate in a week-long orientation to familiarize you with AUP, the city of Paris, and some of the history and culture of France. By the time you arrive in Paris, you'll already have been registered for your courses. Administrative and student life staff will be on hand for academic advisement, to help you change your schedule if the need arises, and to serve as guides during your first few days. Through a carefully planned orientation program, you’ll attend information sessions on housing, purchasing a cell phone, and how to get around Paris. Textbooks for your courses may be purchased at the AUP bookstore.

Housing and Meals

All undergraduate students accepted to NYU at AUP are guaranteed housing. Housing costs are separate from tuition and fees paid to New York University. With the oversight of NYU at AUP staff, the AUP housing coordinator helps students find housing to meet their individual needs. Student housing is secured throughout the city, in homestays and studios. Students have the opportunity to discover many different neighborhoods during their stay in the City of Light.

Participants in the NYU at AUP program choose either a room with a French host family or a single studio apartment. Both options have their advantages yet it is indisputable that living with a French host family is the best option for students who sincerely wish to improve their French language skills. AUP was founded in 1962, and as a result has established a solid network of host families and landlords who have been receiving students for quite some time.

Students will meet with the housing coordinator during the first days of orientation to discuss their housing requests. They then visit a housing option with a student advisor and finalize their housing arrangement with their landlord.

Independent Rooms | An Independent Room or studio apartment is typically a chambre de bonne, a small, furnished, converted maid's room, located at the top of a classical French apartment building. On the same floor there are often several chambres de bonne occupied by other young people studying in Paris.

A Room with a French Host | A room with a French family in an apartment is a private room rented out to students by a family or landlord. Students can choose an option with or without meals. Meals shared with the French family offer the student the opportunity for language and cultural exchange.

Trips and Activities

Because Paris is so rich in history, almost every step you take outside the classroom will reveal a tidbit of art, architecture, or historical fact hiding around a corner, waiting for discovery. Working with the Office of Cultural Programs at AUP, NYU at AUP offers excursions and study trips throughout the semester to students. Students may decide to take advantage of subsidized tickets to opera, ballet or concerts in Paris’s famous theaters. They may also visit museums with special guided tours to learn more about current exhibitions. Or, they may choose to participate in one of the many study trips to locations such as the Loire Valley, Champagne, Bayeux or Avignon. Some study trips are recommended as part of a course and require an additional fee.