
SIT Study Abroad
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SIT Study Abroad offers semester and summer undergraduate programs in Africa, Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific, and the Middle East. Programs tackle the complexities of critical issues, including global health, sustainable development, human rights, peace-building, and biodiversity, in specific cultural and geographical contexts or comparatively across different countries. Students gain...
SIT Study Abroad offers semester and summer undergraduate programs in Africa, Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific, and the Middle East. Programs tackle the complexities of critical issues, including global health, sustainable development, human rights, peace-building, and biodiversity, in specific cultural and geographical contexts or comparatively across different countries. Students gain access to a wide range of experts relevant to the issues being examined. Learning goes beyond the classroom. In our programs, host communities, field stations, non-government organization headquarters, health clinics, art studios, and ecological sites become the classrooms. Students not only acquire a holistic and multifaceted grounding in the issues being examined, they get direct, field-based e...
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Life-Changing Study Abroad Experience
April 14, 2026by: Maddie Fiks - United StatesProgram: SIT Study Abroad: Tanzania: Zanzibar Coastal Ecology
SIT Zanzibar is the perfect study abroad program for students looking to experience a completely different culture and way of life, all while seeing the best nature of your life. Some of the highlights of my experience include swimming with dolphins, exploring the amazing creatures of intertidal zones across the island, being welcomed into a Swahili home, and conducting a month-long research project on Chumbe Island! Moreover, the academic director and staff of the program are wonderful and will go to any length to ensure students are safe, happy, and engaged. I would choose SIT Zanzibar again in a heartbeat.
BEST EXPERIENCE
April 14, 2026by: Milo Chamberlin - United StatesProgram: SIT Study Abroad: Tanzania: Zanzibar Coastal Ecology
Most beautiful place, people, language and vibes ever. ðŸ¥ðŸ¥ðŸ¥ the SIT staff is so friendly and helpful. The community is tight knit and the program will take you to the most beautiful tropical locations of your life
An Incredible Life Experience
April 14, 2026by: Sally Fales - United StatesProgram: SIT Study Abroad: South Africa: International Relations
The SIT program in Durban has been one of the most transformative experiences of my life! One of the greatest gifts of this program is that it would be impossible to recreate on your own or with any other company. The opportunity to meet with so many local people in Durban working to make change, attend book talks/lectures by a variety of professors, hear the experiences of local people working to make change post-apartheid, and about their experiences during apartheid, and living in home-stays is only possible through this SIT program. From day one, the cohort felt like a family, and learning from Dr. Buccus a privilege. The program offers safety, diversity in experience and excursions, fosters community between students, and was responsive to the individual passions and interests that each of us brought. I truly cannot overstate my gratitude towards the staff of SIT for offering such a well-rounded, academically rigorous, and culturally immersive program.



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Hannah Sorila
Participated in 2015
Hannah was born in Colorado and raised in Massachusetts. She went to Providence College and graduated with a degree in global studies, after spending ...

Hannah Sorila
Participated in 2015
I honestly don't know where the idea of me studying abroad stemmed from. No one in my family had done it before me, so I had no examples to follow. But, once I declared my Global Studies major, I was required to study abroad, which ultimately led to my decision to study abroad for two semesters!

Elizabeth Curtis
Participated in 2015
Elizabeth Curtis is a recent graduate from Williams College, where she studied Women’s Studies and Public Health. She plans on going to nursing school...

Elizabeth Curtis
Participated in 2015
I wanted to be pushed out of my comfort zone and learn in a way that was impossible in classrooms in the US.

Alex Bare
Participated in 2016
Alex grew up in rural Eastern Iowa and he is currently a sophomore at the University of Iowa. He has always had a love for foreign languages and world...

Alex Bare
Participated in 2016
Since I was in third grade, there was nothing I wanted more than to just go abroad. My favorite toy was a globe and I would spend hours dreaming of where I would go some day. During my freshman year, I went to visit my university's study abroad office and been the process of deciding where I would spend a semester or year of my life. After jumping from Finland to Jordan to Colombia to Mexico, I finally settled on Bolivia and sealed the deal.
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SIT Study Abroad offers semester and summer undergraduate programs in Africa, Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific, and the Middle East. Programs tackle the complexities of critical issues, including global health, sustainable development, human rights, peace-building, and biodiversity, in specific cultural and geographical contexts or comparatively across different countries. Students gain access to a wide range of experts relevant to the issues being examined. Learning goes beyond the classroom. In our programs, host communities, field stations, non-government organization headquarters, health clinics, art studios, and ecological sites become the classrooms. Students not only acquire a holistic and multifaceted grounding in the issues being examined, they get direct, field-based e...

SIT Study Abroad

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SIT Study Abroad offers semester and summer undergraduate programs in Africa, Europe, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific, and the Middle East. Programs tackle the complexities of critical issues, including global health, sustainable development, human rights, peace-building, and biodiversity, in specific cultural and geographical contexts or comparatively across different countries. Students gain access to a wide range of experts relevant to the issues being examined. Learning goes beyond the classroom. In our programs, host communities, field stations, non-government organization headquarters, health clinics, art studios, and ecological sites become the classrooms. Students not only acquire a holistic and multifaceted grounding in the issues being examined, they get direct, field-based e...
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