Study Abroad with Silberman
Silberman Global Business Experience (GBE)
The Global Business Experience at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Silberman College of Business provides you with a unique opportunity to broaden your academic experience, explore international business issues, and gain a better understanding of today’s global marketplace.
Expand Your Perspective
Businesses value workers with a global outlook and an understanding of diverse cultures. Offered through FDU’s Silberman College of Business, the Global Business Experience (GBE) provides a unique, multi-country and immersive experience that will give you a competitive edge by transforming the way you think, solve problems and view the world. You’ll earn college credit from the front lines of world commerce!
This exclusive study abroad opportunity is available to all newly admitted students entering FDU in the fall semester in all business majors and is cohort-based. Undeclared business majors also are eligible to participate.
As a GBE student, you will participate in two short-term study abroad experiences in two different countries. An application is required and space is limited.
Monthly events include:
- Guest speakers
- Dinners with FDU alumni
- Visits to the United Nations
- Meetings with foreign diplomats
- Corporate site visits
- Bimonthly sessions that may include academic credit
Life-Changing Experience
Travel to Europe, where you will have the option of studying at one of our partner universities. Silberman undergraduate business students will visit the IÉSEG School of Management in Paris at the end of freshman year. During your junior year, you will travel to Italy or Spain where you will visit global companies and network with executives. Other locations will be considered.
Apply for the Global Business Experience
For priority consideration, indicate your interest in participating in GBE by completing the Online Interest Form. Space is limited.
Semester Abroad
Although a semester abroad is not part of the GBE program, students interested in a longer study abroad experience have the option to study at FDU’s Wroxton or Vancouver campuses, or one of our many partner institutions around the world during their sophomore or junior year.
Benefits
- Gain a competitive edge with a business education enriched by an international perspective.
- Learn firsthand how businesses work across cultures and around the world.
- Explore the conditions and influences shaping economies and financial decisions in Europe, North America, and beyond.
- Develop a global vision — and your self-confidence — by stepping up to the challenges of being a world traveler and learner.
Take advantage of the opportunity to study abroad. You can travel and study for a single course between semesters or stay abroad for an entire semester.
European Seminar in England
To ensure that graduates possess the well-rounded preparation essential to succeed in the field, students in an undergraduate hospitality and tourism degree program attend European Seminar during spring break of their senior year. Students travel with their classmates and gain an understanding of European standards of quality at some of the finest hotels, restaurants, and wineries. Prior to their travels, students take two courses as part of the professional development series to gain insight into international itinerary planning, etiquette, and relations. Students enrolled in these courses investigate management approaches, techniques and strategies, as practiced in the United States in specific areas of the hospitality industry such as human resources, organizational systems, law and environmental issues in contrast with their counterparts abroad.
In addition to attending management seminars, students tour outstanding hotel properties and are given an opportunity to experience fine food and beverage service. They go behind the scenes at luxury hotels and member hotels of the world-renowned Leading Hotels of the World.
For students that remain interested in pursuing additional overseas experiences, Fairleigh Dickinson University has a wealth of partnerships with other universities. Students can learn more about these options when speaking with the Study Abroad Office. Specifically, Hospitality students have studied abroad in Switzerland, China, the Netherlands, Italy, and England.
Incoming Amity
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