Program Reviews

Studying abroad in Galway was the best experience of my life. If you are looking for a beautiful, charming and fun city to live in, you've found it in Galway. This city is now my favorite place in the world and I tell everyone I meet that they have to go at some point in their lives.
The program itself was such a great experience and helped me grow both professionally and personally. The internship I was placed into was perfect for what I needed I learned so much from my supervisor. Additionally, the friends and connections I made while in Galway will last a lifetime.

Also, the location coordinator, Karen is the best and will make your experience abroad endlessly better.

I can't imagine going anywhere else! Galway is truely such a unique and amazing city with so many places to go and things to see. I really think that the small town vibe of the city made me love it even more as I really knew my way around the city after the first couple of weeks. My program also had around 20 people, which meant that we all got to know each other very well and we all became close friends. I also loved my internship placement and thought it was a perfect fit for what I was looking for!

I absolutely loved my experience in Galway! It's such a unique place to study abroad in and I am so grateful I chose this location. My internship placement was so amazing and I was excited to go to work everyday. Exploring the city with other interns in the program was so much fun and the city is so welcoming and safe. The group is usually smaller here which helped me create close relationships with the other students. I cannot recommend this location and program enough. The program staff, Karen, is awesome! I promise you will love it here!

I loved the experiences, culture, staff and safety procedures. My one complaint would be that I was interning for someone in my field so they never had any advice or critiques for me. I think my favorite part was traveling to other places around the area, as well as the food and rich history of the location. The staff was so helpful and kind that they really helped and I’m so thankful. I would say this program helps the resume look better, but I didn’t learn a lot in terms of my field of study.

I am pursuing a career in the film industry and have always wanted to study abroad, so I did some research and found the European Cinema course through AIFS Abroad. I was given the wonderful opportunity to travel to three major cities, which included London, Paris, and Rome. It was the experience of a lifetime! My fantastic tour manager, Edu Padial, took my class and I around to see different filming locations of major motion pictures, we saw Warner Brother Studios where they filmed the Harry Potter series, and a variety of different museums, while also being given an opportunity to see the sights that each location had to offer. As the class traveled, I was able to learn about the different European film movements from Dr. Caleb Turner. I truly cannot speak more fondly about my experience. Both Edu and Dr. Turner were fantastic and it is a trip that I will never forget!

My time during AIFS's internship program in London was an unbelievable experience and one that I will never forget. London was a busy city with so many places to see and things to and do. Big shoutout to Gregg in London, who was an amazing tour guide and a great advisor to have along the way. He recommended us to many beautiful markets, delicious bakeries and several pubs as well as many other events and places to visit. Overall this trip was an incredible experience, and I look forward to visiting London again!!

I had an amazing experience here! I was able to work with a brand I loved and create 3 different collaborative collections throughout the duration of my internship. Being in a a new country, allowed me to get to know myself more, and taught me how to navigate the world from a new view. I came back to Los Angeles with a new set of skills, and so many fun stories to share. I would move back to London in an instant and recommend for everyone to go once in their life. I formed long lasting connections with my colleges and would recommend for everyone to go abroad and see what else the world has to offer❤️

My time during AIFS's internship program in London was an unbelievable experience and one that I will never forget. Since starting College back in 2019, I'd always wanted to experience studying and/or interning abroad, so after graduating in May of this year, I decided to end this period of my life with this internship in London. London turned out to be the perfect spot for me: relative ease with culture change (as you don't have to deal with language barriers), experience living in a major city, an abundance of things to do and sights to see, and an amazing staff from AIFS who made the experience even better as they showed us around the city, helped with any questions or concerns, and genuinely cared about our well-being in our time there.

This program sparked a huge growth in my personal development and future career goals as at the conclusion of my time, my internship placement offered me a full-time position. The past me would've thought this was never possible, but it looks like I'll be living and working in London for the start of my life after graduation.

If you're on the edge about participating in this program, just go for it. Yes, not every day is going to be glamorous and dreamlike, but you will come out the other side with a life-changing experience under your belt. I've found the big-city living life of London to be the perfect abroad experience, and I don't doubt you'd end up feeling the same.

I absolutely loved my experience with this program + London!! The interview process was very smooth, and I felt that AIFS assisted me in every way I needed. My internship placement was absolutely perfect! I made great connections and got amazing legal experience that will translate back to the States to my law school applications. London is an amazing city, and all of our excursions allowed me to explore its deep cuts and further into its outskirts. I fell in love with the ease of access to everything through the underground, bus and overground transit systems! There was always something to do from museums to picnics at the beautiful parks to quick day trips outside the city. While the abundance of things to do is amazing, it can be quite expensive to live here for any amount of time, so be prepared for that!! I felt that I could reach out to the AIFS staff on site at any point for any reason. They made themselves very available to us and always were sure to check in. The only mildly negative aspect of my time in the program was the accommodation. It was in a great location, and my room was very nice. However, sharing a common space and kitchen with 9 other people was not ideal. We definitely did not have enough kitchen ware or utensils for all of us. That being said, it was not nearly enough for my experience as a whole to be negatively affected!!

My time in London was super fun!

I was interning at an independent social media and digital marketing agency called The Social Shop. I was able to learn so much about curating content properly for clients’ social media, how to do search engine optimisation for blog posts, and how to research and write blog posts that consistently reflected their clients’ brand image.

Being apart of the Global Experiences program, I was able to meet some really cool people that were super fun to hang out with and talk to.

In the program, they took us on these really fun and interesting day trips during the weekend so that we got to see London outside of the city! There was, of course, to explore the UK too and those were equally just as enjoyable because I was able to socialise with other students who were in the program with me.

The 8 weeks of this program went by so fast which still surprised me even though Global Experiences did say that it would speed by.