Study abroad positively influences academic and career choices, confidence, independence and broadened global perspective that will shape you in ways you can’t imagine. Broadening your environmental experience by making field trips in wild forests in Central Africa, attending some universities lectures and visiting exceptional touristic areas will help you to have a different picture on life and decide with more confidence in the orientation for your future career.
Students from Central Africa partner’s universities are welcome to visit Queen’s University and meet students, researchers and professors that are all eager to help visiting students to make the best use of their time while being at Kingston.
Some reasons to Study Abroad include:
- Becoming environmental friendly in all your approach: meeting people with little income per day who take pride of life and enjoy essential resources for their daily life will shape your perception on nature.
- Making field study in Africa: The exchange program is an exceptional opportunity to make field studies in different ecosystems of tropical forests and will help you to develop your international experience on sustainable management of natural resources
- Learn from another culture: Study abroad immerse to another language and culture which enlarge your global comprehension of the world
- Becoming a leader: Study abroad is done only by exceptional people who with so doing become a leader among their pears
- Be Yourself: meeting different people and learn more about yourself and the world around you
- Students from developing countries have occasion to meet with other students, high skill professors and work with advanced technologies that may help to change their perceptions
Further information for outgoing students at http://www.quic.queensu.ca/outgoing/funding.asp
Further information for incoming students at http://www.quic.queensu.ca/incoming/