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Why choose SIT Study Abroad?
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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Trekking Through Science and Culture in Madagascar
by: Maddie Jeffery - United StatesProgram: SIT Study Abroad: Madagascar: Biodiversity & Ntrl. ResourceStudying abroad in Madagascar was a transformative experience that blended field research, cultural immersion, and personal growth. I conducted an independent research project on chameleon thermoregulation in Marojejy National Park, designing my methodology, collecting data in remote rainforest environments, and presenting my findings at a symposium. This hands-on approach to learning deepened my understanding of conservation science and ecological research. Beyond academics, living with a host family allowed me to engage with Malagasy culture, improve my French language skills, and gain perspective on the challenges of conservation in a developing country. I adapted to a new way of life, from navigating bustling markets to taking bucket showers, and built lasting relationships along the way. This program pushed me outside my comfort zone, strengthened my resilience and adaptability, and reinforced my passion for environmental research and global engagement. Madagascar’s beauty, biodiversity, and people made a lasting impact on me, and I highly recommend this program to students interested in field-based learning, conservation, and cultural exchange.

Jordan has a portion of my heart
by: Megan Gentry - United StatesProgram: SIT Study Abroad: Jordan: Counseling & Humanitarian ActionI absolutely loved my time in Jordan and my experience with SIT. The program director is one of the most accomplished and wise people I have ever met. He was a pleasure to work with. I was able to intern with IFH, an organization that helps refugee families with health services of all kinds. I learned a bit of arabic. I saw many different historical and natural sites and rode a camel. I also integrated myself into the culture and community every day. I stayed with a host family, who helped me learn the local ways in Amman, as well as went to festivals, explored town and many coffee shops, bought from local vendors, joined a running club, met international students, played pickleball, and attended multiple worship services. Perhaps my favorite part of this study abroad was learning about different cultures and religions. I had a lovely view into the Muslim faith and learned the Arab history of the middle east area in a new way. I grew as an individual and as a citizen of earth and of the United States. I am forever grateful for the people I acquainted and the things I experienced.



Experience of a lifetime: educational, fun, satisfying, fulfilling
by: Evan Yurko - United StatesProgram: SIT Study Abroad: Tanzania: Zanzibar Coastal EcologyI seriously cannot recommend this program more. From this experience, you will be better equipped for the world, the job market, applying to grad school, or whatever else lies ahead more than anyone else who didn't do this program. This program is extremely intense, not only the time commitment but it is long hours during the hot tropical days. Some will appreciate the academic rigor in this program, but if you're looking for a vacation (despite it being in one of the most beautiful vacation spots in the world!) this program might not be for you. That being said, anyone doing this program will get the absolute most out of it. The academics were interactive, field based, usually based on doing hands on research that you're physically doing, then writing reports, having discussions, presenting, and doing analysis with the data. You learn through field trips, snorkeling, learning Swahili interactively, working with animals, people, doing interviews, and all the while you don't even know how much everything has built up piece by piece so that you can finally do a month long research project, speaking a language you didn't know when starting the program: A project that means something to the people of Zanzibar. And you can walk away knowing that you can ask better questions, you can know what its really like doing a field based research project and what's not included in every scientific methods section, how ingenuitive people in the developing world when managing resources with little economic means to do so can be, as well as doing it through an amazing cultural learning process in one of the most beautiful countries on Earth.



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Joosje Grevers
Participated in 2015
Joosje is currently a student at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, where she is studying organization and management, Latin American studies, and Sp...

Joosje Grevers
Participated in 2015
I decided to apply to an international program so that I could gain a perspective totally different from what I had grown up with. The world is so vast and has limitless opportunities so I knew that I needed to dip my toe into this pool of opportunity. Gettysburg College, along with different schools across the nation, offer the incredible opportunity to go beyond your personal borders and live in a place that most people only dream of going to.

Sydney McSharry
Participated in 2016
Sydney McSharry is a high school senior at Harpeth Hall in Nashville, Tennessee. The SIT Study Abroad program was her first time traveling abroad. Syd...

Sydney McSharry
Participated in 2016
I have always loved traveling. Once I saw that this program was an option for me, there was no way I could pass it up. I had never been overseas before, and this was a chance to study a topic I'm passionate about. I knew that this would be an amazing and life changing experience that would be a crime to let go to waste.

Emma Fortmiller
Participated in 2016
Emma is a junior at the University of Redlands in Southern California, but she is originally from Portland, Oregon. Once her undergraduate degree is c...

Emma Fortmiller
Participated in 2016
I was inspired to go abroad because I was seeking a life-changing experience that would somehow enlighten me with new career aspirations. Naively enough, I was fully expecting that at some point in my time abroad the lightbulb above my head would light up and tell me what my path should be in life. While this didn't necessarily happen, I was hopeful nonetheless.
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