Education Studies

Examine how education shapes, and is shaped by, society, culture, and policy while gaining hands-on experience in global and urban education settings.

Study at NYU ACCRA

In Accra, the city becomes your classroom. You’ll explore education, development, and policy through coursework grounded in local and global perspectives.

Why Accra

• Community-based, place-driven learning
• Focus on education and international development
• Exposure to global policy and practice
• Immersive cultural experience 

Academics

Engage with coursework that connects education to global development, policy, and social change.

Courses

Core & Electives

• Cocoa and Gold
• Global Issues in Nutrition: The African Perspective
• Health and Policy in a Global World
• Global Connections: Accra
• Globalization & The Developing World
• Inequality

Student Life

Our on-site staff will provide support for you during your time abroad. We’ll help you connect with your host culture throughout your stay with orientation, trips, student clubs, and language exchanges. Housing is guaranteed to all students and will vary by location.

Further Opportunities

We offer many core, liberal arts, and content elective courses abroad that allow you to explore your interests across continents and cultures.

The internship program at NYU Accra is many students’ favorite part of their time abroad. Our faculty and staff have developed relationships with numerous community- and school-based organizations in order to match your interests and skills with a local group that will allow you to gain hands-on experience and build strong relationships in the city. Students often enjoy their internship work so much that they choose to take part in the volunteer program that the site staff have developed as well.

No matter where you choose to spend a semester abroad, you’ll gain new experiences and exposure to a wider world.

Please talk with your academic adviser about making our global locations work with your program of study.