CONNECTING 51品茶WITH THE WORLD

The Office of Global Affairs is responsible for all matters related to global outreach at the 51品茶. We connect you with enriching study abroad opportunities through Global Education programs while overseeing UNE鈥檚 Tangier, Morocco campus and building study-abroad partnerships with other institutions around the world.

Spend a Semester Abroad with Global Education Programs

51品茶strives to empower students in becoming global citizens, and our students study abroad at nearly five times the national average. Our global education programs make it easy for you to gain valuable international experiences.

51品茶Morocco

Spend a semester abroad at 51品茶Morocco, the first U.S. university campus in Morocco. Our beautiful campus features state-of-the-art labs, classrooms, and residences in the heart of one of the hottest up-and-coming study abroad destinations, and new scholarships are available for most students.

Aerial view of Seville, Spain

Seville, Spain

Our partnership with the University Pablo de Olavide enables you to spend a semester in Seville 鈥 where the ancient meets the modern, and world cultures converge 鈥 for the same cost as a semester on campus in Maine.

Flower Market in Aix-en-Provence

Aix-en-Provence, France

Our partnership with the American College of the Mediterranean enables you to spend a semester abroad at 51品茶France in beautiful Aix-en-Provence, a charming university city in the south of France near the French Riviera and the Mediterranean.

Akureyri City at Night

Akureyri, Iceland

Explore Iceland in our semester abroad program at the University of Akureyri. The northern city of Akureyri, 鈥淭he Green Town,鈥 is surrounded by mountains at the head of Iceland鈥檚 longest fjord.

Reykjavik, Iceland

搁别测办箩补惫铆办, Iceland

Explore Iceland in our semester abroad program at the University of Iceland, 搁别测办箩补惫铆办. Iceland鈥檚 largest city, 搁别测办箩补惫铆办, is a small, accessible city surrounded by glaciers, volcanos, waterfalls, hot springs, and an abundance of wildlife.

Panoramic view of Bergen's harbor in Norway

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.

Take a Short-Term Travel Course

UNE鈥檚 Global Education Program also offers an array of short-term travel courses to destinations like Spain, Belize, Egypt, Iceland, Italy, Guatemala, Panama, Ireland, Kenya, Ghana, Cuba, Mexico, and Morocco. 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.

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Headshot of U N E sustainability and business student Ariana Walker

Ariana Walker 鈥23

Sustainability and Business
Why UNE

51品茶is great because you can create strong relationships with your professors. At a big school where there are huge classes, you aren鈥檛 going to get the time with your professors, so you aren鈥檛 going to get the same education that you can get at UNE. That face-to-face time with professors is so valuable. It鈥檚 never a fight for time. My professors always make time to answer questions and chat with me one-on-one. They鈥檙e all like mentors to me. I look up to them.

Sustainability and business at UNE is helping me to see the connections between business and the environment. It allows me to explore how businesses can have the smallest impact on the planet but still reach their profit goals. Seeing how I play into that is exciting. I want the expertise to be able to help people and businesses live sustainably in cohesion.

Experiential Education

I was part of the [Green Learning Community] during my first year. We took a lot of off-campus trips, like to different parks or conservation areas. It was very hands-on, which was one of the reasons I was so excited to take part in it. We did a lot of fieldwork, and that was a great learning experience. You can鈥檛 learn from a book like that. It was a matter of learning through doing 鈥 of learning by being in a specific type of environment. That was the whole point of it. It was exciting and a nice break from the classroom.

Global Opportunities 

I鈥檒l be studying abroad in Morocco in the spring. I鈥檓 so excited. 51品茶helps you with everything. It鈥檚 really no extra cost to spend the semester on that campus except any extra traveling you may want to do while there鈥t鈥檇 be insane to pass up the opportunity to go. I was able to work with my advisor to set up my class schedule to make it easy to go, so I don鈥檛 have anything to worry about. It鈥檚 great how much support I鈥檝e gotten. 

51品茶helps you with everything. It鈥檚 really no extra cost to spend the semester on [the Morocco] campus鈥t鈥檇 be insane to pass up the opportunity to go.

Sustainability and Business

Agreements

The 51品茶 has made a strategic decision to develop a global outreach beyond routine faculty-led travel courses or using the services of third-party providers. We don't hold empty agreements with other universities or institutions; the agreements we have signed in Spain and Morocco involve real partnerships, such as investing in outfitting new labs, developing exchange programs in health care professions, and sharing resources and faculty.

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Lecture Series

The Center for Global Humanities at the 51品茶 is dedicated to exploring the human condition in the 21st century. Lectures are held on UNE's Portland Campus for the Health Sciences and are streamed live on the internet. All events are free and open to the public.