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Orientation

The NYU in Madrid staff will greet you at the airport when the student flight arrives. Once you've moved into your housing, you'll be off and running with a mandatory (and fun!) week of activities as part of the Workshop: Spain Through its Culture and Language. You’ll have already pre-registered for your NYU classes before you left the U.S. and staff will be on hand for academic advisement in order to finalize your registration. During the first week of the workshop’s activities, you’ll attend level-appropriate language orientation sessions to adjust to your new life in Spanish complemented with a week full of lectures and activities, a grand introduction to Spanish culture and your new city. In the first week, you'll also get to know the other students in the program through social events such as an NYU-hosted paella luncheon at the center, visits to Madrid museums, walking tours throughout the city, and day trips to one or more of the famous sites nearby, like the medieval city of Segovia with its magnificent Roman aqueduct or La Granja, an 18th-century summer palace.

Housing and Meals

NYU in Madrid offers you the option to live in an approved private Spanish home, which will help you improve your Spanish and immerse yourself in the rhythms of everyday life while abroad. In most Spanish households, bath and toilet facilities are shared. You can choose one of the following options: breakfast and one hot meal (lunch or dinner) per day or access to the kitchen with no meals. Studios or apartments are available on a limited basis. While some undergraduates prefer to make housing arrangements on their own, the NYU in Madrid housing coordinator helps students find accommodations that best suit their individual needs.

Trips and Activities

Each semester, the NYU in Madrid staff plans several day trips and weekend excursions outside of Madrid, all of which are included in your tuition. Your understanding of Spain is broadened by journeys to other regions, such as a three-day trip to Andalucía (Córdoba and Granada), Old Castile (Burgos and León), or Extremadura (Roman ruins of Mérida, Cáceres, and Trujillo). You might find yourself on a two-day trip to Salamanca or Cáceres and Mérida, or on day trips to nearby Segovia, Toledo, El Escorial, and the famous El Corral Renaissance theatre in Almagro, where students in the theatre class put on a play at the end of the term.

If you'd like, you can also make plans for your own weekend adventures beyond the city. With Fridays off, you'll surely use a few of your weekends to travel with your friends. It's very easy and relatively inexpensive to travel from Madrid to any corner of the Iberian Peninsula. Recently, students have traveled to Lisbon, Barcelona, Seville, and the Canary Islands.