Surrey Abroad

Alex, BSc Economics and Finance Oi! You might think that’s a rude way to start a blog, just like I thought it was a rude way to start a conversation when I first got to Brazil, but it so turned out that it’s their equivalent of hey or hello! My name is Alex and at […]

Hello! My name is Jasmine and I am now in my final year of my degree in Business Management & French at Surrey.I have just returned from my year abroad, during which I spent one semester studying at ESSEC business school in France, one of the most popular and prestigious business schools in the country, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]