Picture this: breakfast overlooking the Mediterranean before your morning lecture, weekend trips to a new country instead of the library, and a passport full of stamps by the time finals roll around. Studying abroad can feel like a huge leap — but at SBCC, it's a leap thousands of students have taken since 1973. Here's what's actually true (and exciting) about homesickness, housing, language barriers, cost, credits, and everything else standing between you and your next great

Carly describes the feeling of anticipation that comes with arriving in a foreign city for the first time.

Fall 2017, an adventurous group of SBCC students lived and study topics from cultural studies, to communications, to film in Madrid, Spain.