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Orientation
By the time you arrive in Paris, you'll have already 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, tour parts of the city, and begin the required Workshop in French Language and Culture, which provides an intensive introduction to the French language and a grand introduction to French culture and your new city, including an excursion outside of Paris. Textbooks for your courses may be purchased at the center and at local bookstores. The class schedule in Paris is similar to the NYU schedule in New York with language classes meeting four times a week. Friday is a free day for you to explore the city.
Housing and Meals
All undergraduate students accepted to NYU in Paris are guaranteed housing. Housing costs are separate from tuition and fees paid to New York University. While some undergraduates prefer to make housing arrangements on their own, the NYU in Paris housing coordinator helps students find housing to meet their individual needs. Student housing is secured throughout the city, but primarily within a 45-minute commute from the NYU Center, which is in the upscale 16th arrondissement. Students have the opportunity to discover many different neighborhoods during their stay in the City of Light.
Participants in the NYU in Paris program have the choice between a single or shared room with a French host family or a single or shared independent, furnished 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. NYU in Paris is over 30 years old and as a result there exists a solid network of host families and landlords who have been receiving NYU in Paris students for quite some time.
Before leaving for Paris, students should fill out an on-line housing questionnaire indicating the type of lodging preferred. Based on this information, NYU will make arrangements for students to visit appropriate housing accommodations when they arrive.
Room in a Parisian household | Students may elect to live in a Parisian home with or without another NYU in Paris student. Relationships with families are very personal, and making a successful transition into French life has a lot to do with your flexibility and openness to new ways of living. In most French households, bath and toilet facilities are shared; kitchen privileges are part of the arrangement. One meal per week may be shared depending on the arrangement.
Studio/Apartment | Students can request housing in a studio or larger apartment to share with other NYU in Paris students. All studios and apartments are furnished. A limited number of very small studios with shared toilets in the hallway (former maid’s quarters) are available for students on a very limited budget.
Independent living arrangements | Students who have friends, relatives, or personal contacts in Paris are free to make their own living arrangements.
Temporary lodging | NYU in Paris provides several days of temporary housing to undergraduates in a youth hostel upon arrival before students move in to their permanent housing.
Trips and Activities
Students in the NYU in Paris program have access to some of the finest museums, galleries, theatres, and architectural monuments in the world. Our program features a wide variety of cultural activities that give students an extraordinary opportunity to enhance their experience abroad. Most activities are covered in the cost of tuition and include day trips to places such as Chantilly, Giverny, and Versailles. Special events such as wine and cheese tastings, film screenings, lectures, literary readings, walking tours, and guided museum visits are also scheduled. NYU in Paris organizes outings to theatre, ballet, and opera performances, as well as for special art exhibitions. Weekend excursions are organized to places such as Avignon, Burgandy, Mont-Saint-Michel, and Toulouse. Most of these trips are subsidized by NYU in Paris. Unless required for a course, all activities are optional.