Study Abroad Programs in Loire Valley, France

I was always determined to study abroad because of the stories my dad told me about his own time living overseas. He once spoke French fluently, and I...

My twin sons had an interest in fashion and were applying to colleges. We felt that the API program would support and grow that interest. After resear...

If I’m entirely honest, one day I just decided to. I don’t know if it was some post I saw or something that reminded me of it, but I was determined ev...

I’ve always wanted to go abroad. My favorite book in childhood had a character that said: 

Going to France and traveling around in Europe has always been something I have wanted to do, but I thought of it as something I would do much later i...

I decided to go abroad because I really wanted to hone my language skills, and get out of the bubble that is my small college's campus for at least a ...

I began to develop an interest in Paris, France when I started learning French a few years before studying abroad. I spoke an advanced level of the la...

I always knew I wanted to go abroad, but seeing other kids abroad and seeing their amazing experiences really pushed me to apply.

Both my parents did their fair share of traveling in their youth and always encouraged my brothers and I to as well. Traveling outside of the country ...

Honestly, I fully believe my interest in studying abroad started when I was really young. I was swooned by every Eiffel Tower photo I ever saw, chose ...

Being a French major, going abroad was a requirement put forth by my university. However for me, there was so much more that inspired me to want to go...

A love for travelling, and my French major.

I was inspired to go abroad for several reasons. The first was, quite frankly, I had to. Luther College (where I go to school) requires that language ...

I was inspired to go abroad by an earnest desire to experience other cultures and expose myself to people who don't think, act, or look like me. I hav...

Studying abroad was always something I wanted to do in college, but was never sure of where to go or what to study. I had been studying French for yea...

I wanted to expand my worldview. A lot of my friends and family kept on telling me that Europe had the same kind of culture as the United States, and ...

I knew going into college that I wanted to study abroad. My first time abroad was in Paris when I was nine. My family went for two weeks over Christma...

During my junior year of high school our language classes took a week tour of Madrid, Barcelona, and Paris. I had always thought of Paris romantically...

I loved that Nantes is not a touristy city. I really got a good sense of French life and was forced to use and practice my French, which is exactly wh...