Opening Up to the World

Every year, around 600,000 young people from all over the world travel to the United States for educational purposes. Many of them attest that the years they spend studying in the USA are the best of their lives. Most of the time is spent on the campuses, students cohabitate with the other 20,000 of their peers that are 18 to 25-years old. The atmosphere on campus is very special; everything is within easy reach; life is very fast with many different daily activities. The whole life of a student-athlete goes on right there on campus: attending classes, sports practices, home games, going out with friends during leisure time… Studying in America represents for many a way of opening up to the world – the world of new, very different, and complex cultures. One explores a very practical way of life, in most cases, completely different from what the student had experienced before his or her arrival to the US.

It is most certain that the everyday communication, the exchanges of opinion and the socializing with peers of all these different races, cultures and habits will enrich anybody who is exposed to them. Personal growth and maturity as consequences of living in these special places are almost guaranteed. At American colleges and universities, everything is focused on the student’s success. There are excellent conditions to motivate, or even force the student to graduate on time. On the other hand, a student has all the means on his or her disposal to spend very pleasurable and fun four years at a university campus. All of that, of course, makes for some indispensable memories.

Life on Campus

Students live close by to the university campus. Therefore, they spend very little time commuting to class and to practice. Largest campuses may have a student body that is larger than 50,000 while the smallest of those can count three or four thousand students. The campuses consist of modern dormitories or residence halls, and, along with many different classrooms and laboratories, they also have large computer rooms where all the most modern technological advances are at the students’ disposal 24/7. They also include state-of-the-art sport arenas and gyms for soccer, basketball, weight lifting, swimming pools, tennis courts etc.

Not too many places outside of the United States give students ways like these in order to meet all their needs in one place, right on campus. So, it is not by chance that the largest percentage of students finish their studies on time, but also, that they spend some of the most memorable years of their lives while studying in the United States!