Spending part of your studies at a foreign university is a life-changing experience. On this page you learn about why studying abroad can be one of the most rewarding and memorable times of your academic and personal life.
Rewarding, unique experience
Studying and living abroad allows you to actively participate in a new culture and experience diverse intellectual perspectives and ways of life first-hand:
- You broaden your personal horizon and expand your intercultural understanding
- Develop new perspectives on many issues of our world, reflect your own culture and country from a different viewpoint and form a new, more sophisticated view of the world
- Enjoy an exciting time and have a lot of fun, as you meet interesting people from all over the world, make new friends and discover fascinating cities and countries
- Become fluent in the local language and profit from your foreign language competency throughout your studies and your whole professional career
Advance yourself academically
Studying abroad with IS:link offers academic opportunities complementing and exceeding those of the studies at your home university:
- Attend courses that are not offered at your university
- Learn from and interact with renowned scholars and researchers in the area of Information Systems, who come from very diverse academic and cultural backgrounds and will enrich the perspectives you have on the subjects of Information Systems and associated academic disciplines
- Expand your general problem-solving competences and your specific academic skills by experiencing ways of academic learning, teaching and researching, which are different to those you are accustomed to
- Learn about new research fields and research traditions and benefit from working together in teams with students from all over the work
Personality development and formation
A study abroad experience is an education in itself, as you not only learn on an academic level, but significantly change your personality as well:
- Become more tolerant, more open-minded and outgoing towards new people
- Grow as a person, as you will be more independent and self-confident, as well as strengthen your perseverance
- Through stepping away from your regular routine due to living and studying in a new environment you learn a lot about yourself and gain new insights
- In the spirit of the great educationalist Wilhelm von Humboldt, studying abroad can be regarded as a true form of self-formation on all levels of personal education
Prepare your professional career
Throughout your professional career, you will benefit in many ways from your study abroad experience:
- As many companies today operate beyond national boundaries, the cross-cultural competence, international experience and language skills gained will strengthen your résumé and are high in demand in the global economy
- Improve your job prospects, as studying abroad demonstrates that you can handle yourself in unknown situations, are open-minded, flexible and perseverant
- Due to studying and living together with students from all over the world you will create a unique personal network, which is very likely to be helpful throughout your professional career
Read about what IS:link students had to say about their study abroad experiences.
Find out why studying abroad with IS:link is the best and easiest way to take this opportunity.
