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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.  These range from site-specific guides, to ones that address specific populations of the NYU student body.  All of the guides are constructed from student experience and offer insight that goes well beyond the usual travel guide.  The guides are continuously being updated, changing and improving as the sites continue to develop, and as more students like you bring back new information.  So, take a look and tell us what you think! 

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? Each guide is a great tool for learning about your study abroad site through the eyes of several generations of students who’ve already embarked on the study abroad journey.

Topic-Specific Guides
How are issues related to gender, diversity, or sexuality viewed at the location where you'll be studying?  The Topic-Specific Guides aim to address a variety of these issues and discuss them within the context of each site. These resources are meant to tackle issues that are not always discussed in other guidebooks or about which students may not feel comfortable asking. 

Helping with the Guides
As a returning students your ideas, comments and questions about the guides are invaluable. Please give us your feedback at global.ambassadors@nyu.edu.