GLOBAL EXPERIENCES FOR EVERY STUDENT
The Global Education Program fosters global citizenship by providing the opportunity for all students to study abroad. Our program offers English-language courses in the sciences, humanities, business, and the arts, as well as language study in Arabic, Spanish, and French. Scholarships may be available, contact the Global Education team for more details.
Hannah Buckley ’18
I made the best decision of my life when I chose to study abroad in Morocco the spring of my sophomore year. It was my first time out of the U.S., and I couldn’t have gone to a better place. Morocco is a country overflowing with culture, kindness and amazing opportunities just waiting to be taken. Some of my favorite memories came from exploring the sunny city of Tangier with my friends, shopping in the medina, and volunteering at the local orphanage. When you live alongside people that do not speak the same language as yourself, you learn how to communicate in new ways. With our growing Arabic skills and their broken English, my friends and I found shared languages with the people of Morocco in hand gestures, facial expressions and belly laughs. We learned more from these experiences in cafes, taxis and hanoots than we could have ever learned from sitting inside a classroom.
Studying took place outside of the university and brought us to places we had only seen before in pictures. We went on many excursions throughout Morocco and Spain and were even able to organize our own trips as well. One of my favorite trips we planned was to the Sahara Desert. After traveling hours by an overnight train to Marrakech and even more hours by van through the Atlas Mountains, we arrived in the afternoon to an endless landscape of golden sand. We all took turns sandboarding down the dunes before we watched the sun set over the desert. Sitting atop a towering sand dune below a pink sky made me feel as if I was on a different planet. This experience was one of the many times my decision to go to Morocco was reinforced and I knew I was exactly where I was supposed to be. Studying abroad offered me more than I could have imagined and shaped me into the person I am today. I’ll never forget the memories I shared with the students who became friends that became family during my time in Morocco.
I made the best decision of my life when I chose to study abroad in Morocco the spring of my sophomore year.
Semesters abroad
Tangier, Morocco
UNE Morocco, the first study abroad campus to be established in Morocco by a U.S. university, features state-of-the-art facilities in the heart of one of the major cultural, economic, and political hubs of the region.
Seville, Spain
Our partnership with the University Pablo de Olavide enables you to spend a semester in Seville — where the ancient meets the modern, and world cultures converge — for the same cost as a semester on campus in Maine.
Aix-en-Provence, France
Spend a semester abroad at UNE France in beautiful Aix-en-Provence, a charming university city in the south of France near the French Riviera and the Mediterranean.
Akureyri, Iceland
Explore Iceland in our newest semester abroad program at the University of Akureyri. The northern city of Akureyri, “The Green Town,” is surrounded by mountains at the head of Iceland’s longest fjord.
Reykjavík, Iceland
Explore Iceland in our semester abroad program at the University of Iceland, Reykjavík. Iceland’s largest city, Reykjavik, is a small, accessible city surrounded by glaciers, volcanos, waterfalls, hot springs, and an abundance of wildlife.
Norway and Finland
As part of the North2North Exchange program, you have the opportunity to study abroad for a semester or year at the University of Bergen in Bergen, Norway; the Arctic University of Norway in Tromso; and the University of Helsinki in Helsinki, Finland.
Travel Courses
UNE's Global Education Program offers an array of short-term travel courses to destinations like Spain, Belize, Dominica, Thailand, Italy, Scotland, Panama, Ireland, Kenya, Ghana, Cuba, Mexico, and Brazil. Students accepted into these programs will meet in a traditional course setting throughout the semester to prepare for travel through readings, lectures, and coursework, then travel during a semester break or over the summer.
By the numbers
percentage of your financial aid package that applies toward our semester abroad programs
Global Education Scholarship awarded to all students participating in a UNE semester abroad program
of UNE undergraduates study abroad for a semester or take a travel course