20+ Benefits of Studying Abroad with UNI

  • Learn by doing
  • Understand yourself better
  • Become more independent
  • Earn credits towards your UNI degree
  • Increase your ability to budget money and time, make decisions and prioritize
  • Make friends from other cultures
  • Become fluent in a new language [see: The Importance of Spanish]
  • Understand your major in its international context
  • Inspire a career
  • Experience professional growth
  • Live a dream!
  • Become more open-minded and flexible
  • Experience a new culture
  • Expand cross-cultural communication
  • Strengthen problem solving skills
  • Widen horizons
  • Defy convention
  • Look ahead - impress a recruiter & become competitive in today’s job market
  • Challenge yourself
  • Cherish memories
  • Summon your courage
  • Learn to celebrate diversity and appreciate differences
  • See the United States from a different perspective

Study Abroad Center | Office of International Programs | 28 Gilchrist Hall | University of Northern Iowa | Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0520
Phone: (319) 273-7078 | Fax: (319) 273-2921 | study-abroad@uni.edu | Employment

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