Friends World College
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| Established | 1965 |
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| Dean | Jeffrey Belnap |
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Brooklyn, New York, USA Heredia, Costa Rica Hangzhou, China Byron Bay, Australia Alcalá, Spain Florence, Italy |
| Website | www |
LIU Global (formerly: Friends World College, Friends World Institute, Friends World Program and, Global College of Long Island University) is a discrete educational entity of Long Island University that offers a program that integrates a series of yearlong cultural immersions into a four-year Bachelor of Arts degree.
LIU Global offers only one degree-granting program culminating in a B.A. in Global Studies. However, LIU Global also offers semester-long or year-long study abroad options for visiting students (approximately 20 transfer and/or visiting students are accepted per year).
All incoming Freshman are required to complete their first year of study at LIU Global's Costa Rica Center which is based in Heredia, Costa Rica with excursions to Nicaragua and Panama. In the second year, students participate in LIU Global's Europe Program which, in the Fall, is based in Alcalá, Spain, with excursions to London, Berlin and Morocco. In the Spring the Europe program is based in Florence, Italy during the Spring semester, with excursions to Paris and Bosnia and Herzegovina. As Juniors, students can choose to spend a year at the China Center in Hangzhou, China which offers excursions to Beijing, Shanghai, Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces in Western China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan or traveling with the Asia-Pacific Australia Program to Fiji, Australia, and Thailand in the Fall and Australia and Bali in the Spring. The final year of the program begins with the International Research and Internship Semester (IRIS) an independently designed research project centered around an internship at the LIU Global Center or Program of the student’s choice and culminates in a semester in New York City, where students complete a series of capstone experiences, a second Senior-year internship, and a Senior thesis.
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