Bilbao feels like home. The culture here is beautiful and I would not change this experience for anything.

 

USAC student in Bilbao/Getxo, Spain

Top reasons to study abroad

A USAC student finds a moment to do homework at USAC's facility in Costa Rica.

Top 10 Reasons to Study Abroad

  1. Change Your Life: explore something different than the routine, grow as an individual, learn about yourself.
  2. Gain New Perspective: experience life outside your borders, make new friends, live with and learn from people of different values, beliefs, and celebrations than your own.
  3. Discover Your Passions: get inspired, test your assumptions, let life surprise you.
  4. Enrich Your Education: blur the lines between inside and outside the classroom, get a new angle on your major, select courses not offered at your home university, learn a language.
  5. Stay on Track to Complete Your Degree: earn university credit, fulfill major/minor requirements, flesh out your plan to get to graduation and beyond.
  6. Distinguish Yourself: make yourself more marketable to future employers, enhance your interpersonal skills, benefit from your unique understanding of a new part of the world.
  1. Demonstrate Your Adaptability: prove your ability to work with different people, your willingness to communicate across cultural or language barriers, your sense of adventure and problem-solving.
  2. Accomplish More Than Imagined: develop confidence, succeed in taking risks and stretching yourself, try new things.
  3. Prepare for the Future: consider new directions, earn credit and experiences in preparation for graduate/professional school or a career, deepen your knowledge and skills for use in any future situation.
  4. Open the Doors to the Next Opportunity! So much is possible! Students have found new passions, new majors/minors, new job connections, new business opportunities, new directions, new vision. What will you find?