Returned From Abroad?

Wondering what to do after returning home from studying abroad? World Learning believes study abroad provides an important platform for continuing to transform perspectives and ideas about the world. While most study abroad programs focus on students’ return home through emotional and psychological "re-entry," SIT goes beyond this model and focuses on four essential aspects of returning home after studying abroad:

  1. Academic Reintegration
  2. Civic Engagement
  3. Psycho-emotional Reintegration
  4. Professional Development

World Learning helps returned study abroad students promote a successful and fruitful transition back home by providing support, strategies, and resources to maximize intercultural knowledge and skills. World Learning encourages returned students to continue to seek out strategies and resources to maximize their study abroad experiences.  The resources on this website will help returned students become more civically engaged in their college/university and home community.

For more information:

SIT’s Position on Returning from Studying Abroad
For further description on SIT’s position on the impact of returning from study abroad download this word document. 

SIT Occasional Papers Series
Occasionally SIT publishes papers around topics important to the organization and its constituents. Download this PDF to look at SIT student essays and research into study abroad.

Surviving Re-entry: a manual for parents
This manual, written by an SIT Academic Director, guides parents through the re-integration process that students experience. The goal of this handbook is to look at why return culture shock occurs, examine some of the typical concerns of students going through re-entry, and finally, discuss what parents can do to assist their children during this process.