Surrey Abroad

Follow the adventures of Surrey students abroad!

Summer School in Brazil

Lloyd, BSc Biomedical Science My name is Lloyd, and I am a second year Biomedical Science student. In the summer of 2024, I attended a summer school at the University of Sao Paolo (Ribeiro Preto campus, Brazil) to study Brazilian Business and Economics. It was an amazing experience as the course felt accessible, even though […]


Study exchange in Florida

How ya’ll doing? My name is Olivia and I’m a Sociology student at the University of Surrey who’s completing my final year! Not too long ago I completed a year-long study exchange at one of America’s biggest and most vibrant university campuses, the University of Central Florida (UCF) in Orlando, Florida. Completing an academic year […]


Alumni stories: Vickie Houlihan

BSc Modern Languages (Spanish with German) Class of 2022 Studied abroad at Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg and worked abroad at VeryChic in Barcelona Why did you apply for a placement year?It was a crucial part of my degree to utilise my languages in their true setting and put myself in new and daunting environments to experience new […]


50/50 Placement Year in Australia

By Rochelle Ferreira, BSc Business Management (Marketing) Working at the University of Surrey In the first half of my 50/50 placement year I worked as an International Mobility Marketing Intern for the University’s International Engagement Office. This was amazing for many different reasons, mostly because it allowed me to build on knowledge gained from working […]


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