Study Abroad in Rome This Summer at John Cabot University

Truly having such an amazing time at JCU this summer! My friends and I have learned so much from everyone here. JCU is such a great base for our travels. Everyone should study abroad here in the Eternal City!

So far this abroad experience has been great! JCU has been very good at helping us get used to life in Rome. Everyone has been super welcoming and helpful when needed. I really appreciate the support that JCU provides.

So far I have really enjoyed my time at John Cabot. I have met so many new people, tried new things, and have grown so much by doing things out of my comfort zone. I would definitely recommend studying abroad!!

Super good! People are really nice, I made a lot of friends, and the universe plans a lot of fun outside activities and trips that really help get to know Italy on a deeper cultural level! Food is amazing too :)

My experience abroad has been so fun! I love meeting new people and seeing different things! JCU has given me such an incredible experience and I hope that everyone gets to do something like this. I LOVE JCU

This experience has been amazing. I will say the work load is quit much I love studying here in Rome. The culture is amazing and I have been blessed to travel Italy and Europe on weekends :) What an amazing life thank you god !!

I have had the best time at JCU! I have met so many new people that u have been traveling and learning with. The people I was placed in an apartment with are absolutely amazing! We have roommate dinners every night! I also LOVE the classes I am in, the faculty are incredibly accommodating and kind and I honestly feel as though my learning experience here may be even better than that at my own university

Such a great learning experience in Rome! I love the kind people here and the academic environment! Great experience inside and outside classroom! Bonus: The campus location is at the core of downtown!

Spending a summer at John Cabot University in Rome was transformative, blending academic growth with cultural immersion. The central location provided a unique learning backdrop, with classes in historic buildings and field trips to iconic landmarks. Weekends exploring Rome and its cuisine, along with a supportive international community, enriched the experience. This summer broadened my academic horizons and deepened my appreciation for global cultures.

It’s a great experience. You can share nice experiences with other students and learn new things about different cultures. The courses are great, with good professors. The life in Rome is overall good and nice for young people.

You can meet different international students which is very good experience and can help you gain more exposure. The professors are very welcoming and well informed. The academics is really good. And caffe is amazing.

Excellent summer experience at John Cabot. I could not have picked a better place to call my home in Italy. John Cabot had an easy process for admissions and orientation along with arrival. I felt very welcomed through every step of orientation. There have been many activities and experiences at my disposal as well.

Studying abroad was a great decision. John Cabot University was a great way to learn while in a different country, and they did a great job of immersing me in Rome. Walking through the Trastavere area of Rome on the way to school was an amazing experience as I was able to experience first hand of many Italian citizens by walking and eating around them.

The neighborhood that the university is in (Trastevere) is amazing and so lively! I loved being near so many restaurants and a good night life scene while still being a walk from the city center. I came abroad during the summer, so there were a lot more Americans than international students which I didn’t fully expect, but it is an American university.

Studying at JCU gave me an opportunity to meet new friends and explore different parts of Italy as well as different cities in Europe. Class at JCU allowed me to talk about different issues around Italy and compare them to the issues in America. My dorm was perfectly placed in the middle of Trastevere. Walking the streets immersed me in the culture and had some of the best food I have ever tried! The food in Italy is just amazing and you sure will have some of the best options near the JCU campuses! I recommend everyone to do this because I am so sad to leave!

I had the most amazing experience studying at JCU for 5 weeks. It gave me the opportunity to immerse myself into so many cultures that I didn’t know about. It was an experience that I wouldn’t trade for the world.

If you are trying to study somewhere outside of the country, for the first time, JCU is a great option. The staff is amazing, the community is nice and almost everybody speaks English so you won't get lost.

Positive experiences: kind and friendly staff (especially at Tiber Cafe), quick replies to email inquiries, campus is clean, lots of restaurants near offer JCU discounts, decent location, relatively good living situation, provided kitchen equipment & bedding/towels in apartments, cheap prices in Tiber Cafe and pretty yummy food Negative experiences: -The fire alarm in my room went off several times (at least 5) for no apparent reason, particularly at night when everyone's sleeping. After it went off randomly 3 times, I filed a maintenance request for the alarm to be fixed. I waited 3/4 days for the maintenance person to come, and when they did, they didn't even go into my room, where the fire alarm is. They simply went into the bathroom and then left without ever fixing my fire alarm. Since the fire alarm continued to go off randomly, I filed a second work request, and then they fixed it. The maintenance person should have fixed the problem the first time. -Included in our housing fee, we pay for the cleaners to come and clean the common areas of each apartment once a week. I only studied abroad for one session, which is a 5-week long program, and thus the cleaners should have come 4 times within those 5 weeks. However, for one of those times, the cleaners never came because of a national holiday. Our apartment was basically not cleaned for 2 weeks, although we had paid for it in our housing fee. Since the cleaners failed to come for 1 of the 4 total scheduled times, they did not fulfill their obligation 25% of time this summer. I'm not sure why JCU didn't reschedule the cleaners to come on a day before or after the holiday. -The main building for the Trastevere apartments only has 9-person apartments. I personally think that living with 8 other strangers is a lot to ask, especially because we weren't given the option to choose a preference to live in Trastevere. Also, the cost of paying for a double vs a triple bedroom is the same, which doesn't make sense. -JCU has you pay the housing payment in full before they let you know which housing you are getting, and different housing has different prices. Thus, we had to overpay for housing because we did not yet know which housing price we were going to get yet. I ended up overpaying $500. No one notified us about how to get our refund, as many of us had overpaid. I had to email the school on my own initiative to ask about a refund. When they did offer me a refund, they initially wanted me to send my bank account information over email for them to wire the money back to me. Only when I asked for other options did they say they could write a check or give me the money in cash. I think it's odd that they initially told me to send over my bank account details over email because that would be very insecure and would allow any mal-intended employees to steal money from my bank account. -I'm not sure what standards the professors had to surpass in order to get hired, but one of my professors simply sucked. He is definitely not cut out to be teaching, and he also was not super nice. The professor also said that JCU pays very little, which is sad for the professors considering a lot of them come from America to teach for the summer and have to pay for their own housing/flights. -The Tiber Cafe dining hall food was almost never warm. It was all just slightly above room temperature.

Being in Italy was such a learning experience for me and I grew so much as a person being here. I learned a lot of the culture, food, the people that live here. I also learned some Italian so I could speak to everyone here. I loved being able to be here because my dads side of the family is all Italian and I had never been here before and it was such a cool and fun experience being able to see all what my dads grandparent grew up with. I took a religion class here and learned all about the popes in Rome and it was really cool learning about this because I wouldn’t have thought to take this course in America but taking it here in Italy was the best decision ever. I also took a drawing class and went to a lot of different places to draw and it was so cool being able to go to these places because I wouldn’t have known some of the places were a thing if it hadn’t been for this course. Overall my time in rome has been great and I am so incredibly lucky I was able to come here for the summer and experience such a fun thing.

Overall I really loved my study abroad experience. JCU has the best location in this adorable neighborhood called Trastevere right in the heart of Rome. The professors were great and the classes were very interesting. JCU offers a good variety of on-site classes which basically means you go on field trips with your professor around Rome every class. They also organize excursions around Italy you can sign up for. I went on one to Tuscany and really liked it. Overall, I highly recommend JCU to study abroad students.