ISP Education Abroad Institutions

Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies

Nagasaki, Japan

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Nagasaki University of Foreign Studies is an independent, co-educational four-year liberal arts university. The school’s roots go back to the months after the city had been reduced to ashes by the atomic bomb. The little school in a church stood as a symbol of the will that characterized Japan’s postwar recovery: to rebuild its shattered world as a society dedicated to peace and understanding.

As part of ISP's partnership building and outreach effort, NUFS will accept a limited number of COC students to study at their university tuition-free for 2022-2023.

• Limited space available
• Enroll in non-credit communication classes at COC
• Scholarship available for housing
• Tuition-free

Discipline(s): Japanese Language, Culture, History, & Business

Program Type(s): Bilateral Exchange, Semester-Long Education Abroad

Florence University of the Arts - The American University of Florence

Florence, Italy

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Florence University of the Arts-The American University of Florence is the academic entity of the Palazzi Foundation, a nonprofit that fosters cultural integration within the city of Florence. FUA has several schools offering a rich array of academic disciplines and seeks to offer academics and projects related to cultural integration to its very diverse international student body. The academics under FUA cover a vast range of subjects and areas, focused primarily on the arts and design. FUA strives to uphold a unique approach to global and local learning by implementing international cultural integration through its academics and practices.

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              • Internships available
              • Located in city center of Florence

Discipline(s): Hotel Management/Hospitality, Culinary Arts

Program Type(s): Semester-Long & Summer Education Abroad

Thomas More University of Applied Sciences

Mechelen, Flanders, Belgium

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Thomas More University of Applied Sciences is an applied sciences university in Belgium, focused more on STEM and related areas, along with business, hospitality and communication/media studies. They have a long history of building international partnerships and have extensive experience with student mobility. There is particular interest in working with them in the substantive areas of Media/Entertainment Arts and Communications, as well in building student exchange arrangements with their institution.

Discipline(s): STEM, Media/Arts, Communications

Program Type(s): Transfer Abroad

Rennes School of Business

Rennes, France

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Rennes School of Business is considered to be the most international School of Management in Europe. With 95% of faculty members being non-French, 55% foreign students, classes in English and a network of more than 350 partner universities worldwide, Rennes School of Business gives the students a unique opportunity to learn in a continuous international environment from first year to graduation. Rennes School of Business specializes in a 2+1 program, whereby community college students majoring in Business (or related areas) can receive a bachelor's degree in 1 year after transferring. The instruction is entirely in English and US students may use FAFSA to pay for its costs.

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Discipline(s): Business

Program Type(s): Transfer Abroad, Complete BA and/or Masters Degree

CEFAM, International School of Management

Lyon, France

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CEFAM International School of Management’s mission is to provide a high-quality, international business education, combining the American academic model with competency-driven engage learning experience, to produce graduates able to define their own vision of academic, professional and personal success while excelling in the international management career they have chosen.

Discipline(s): Business

Program Type(s): Education Abroad, Transfer Abroad

University of Brighton

Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK

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Brighton is known for its strong student services (the ethos at Brighton is one where staff get to know students by name) as well as its coastal location, just an hour from London by train. It has 20,000 students, including 3,000 international students. Senior management at Brighton is committed to comprehensive campus internationalization. The school has faculties with a strong international inclination, particularly its Business and Media departments.

Discipline(s): Hotel Management/Hospitality, Culinary Arts

Program Type(s): Semester-Long & Year-Long Education Abroad

University for the Creative Arts

Farnham, Surrey, England, UK

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UCA was recognized as a university in 2004; it comprises a series of campuses in southeast of England. Currently has just under 8,000 students (including many international students). It is a top-ranking specialist university with Gold TEF rating (a teaching standard in the UK). UCA offers 130 different Art and Design programs, with an academic staff including BAFTA and Oscar winners (the Creator of Peppa Pig was on the academic staff). Employability of students is an absolute focus of UCA; they also consider it important to connect students with social events in the area.

Discipline(s): Media/Arts, Design, Sustainability

Program Type(s): Bilateral Exchange, Semester-Long Education Abroad

Queen Margaret University

Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

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QMU was founded in 1875, located on the outskirts of Edinburgh, Scotland in a very safe, beautiful location. They currently host 5,500 students on campus, plus 3,000 studying with their int'l partners (they have students from about 90 different countries). QMU has two primary schools: Health Sciences and Arts, and Social Science and Management. QMU is accustomed to working with US and Canadian universities and has experience in forming articulation agreements with other institutions of higher education; they even have an existing exchange agreement with the California State University at Chico.

Discipline(s): Sociology, Psychology, Hotel/Restaurant Management, Media/Arts

Program Type(s): Semester-Long & Year-Long Education Abroad

University of New York in Prague

Prague, Czechia

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The University of New York in Prague (UNYP) was founded in 1998 and is offering American and Czech University degrees delivered fully in English from the central European city of Prague. UNYP has a long history and degree partnership with the State University of New York, specifically, The State University of New York, Empire State College (SUNY, ESC). UNYP remains one of the largest English language higher-education institutions in the Czech Republic.

Discipline(s): Political Science

Program Type(s): Education Abroad

Karnavati University

Gujarat, India

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Karnavati is a university in India, started in 2017, focusing on various areas including law, design, computer science, dentistry and more.

Discipline(s): Computer Science, Social Sciences, Law, Design, Dentistry

Program Type(s): Non-Credit Courses, Education Abroad, Certificates, Summer Courses