Experiences are what make Drew.
They’re also what build up your knowledge and shape you into someone who’s ready for whatever comes next. You’ll leave here with at least two standout experiences under your belt. Spend a semester in New York or London. Intern with the National Park Service. Develop the next great antifungal drug. Support local after-school programs as part of Community-Based Learning classes. Go beyond the classroom, embark on an adventure, deepen your understanding — this is where you build the practical skills that prepare you for big things later.
Travel across the Hudson or around the world in our nycTRECs, shortTRECs, and longTRECs. Rethink assumptions from a new vantage point. Explore your chosen field—or an entirely different one—in a new context. Connect with other industries and cultures, and to where you want to go from here.
Internships are experiential learning opportunities that allow you to link coursework and skills to a real-life work environment. They can be paid or unpaid, on-campus or off-campus, for credit or not for credit. Internships allow you to gain resume-ready work experience and develop your transferable skills while helping establish your professional network.
Research projects give you a chance to work on a particular area of interest with a Drew faculty member in a real lab setting. These collaborative, mentored experiences are an excellent way to build academic and career experience.
Community-Based Learning courses, alternative breaks, Changebuilders certifications, and other initiatives foster the ability to connect academic learning with action in the world. These experiences strengthen community partners, build students’ transferable skills, and connect passion for action with academic interests.
Immerse yourself in a major world city for a full semester, with Drew professors and classmates at your side. With our semester-long city programs, you earn academic credit while gaining exclusive access to rarefied professional realms.
Spend two days a week in the city, in classes taught on site by faculty experts and industry leaders.
Meet the Madison Avenue message makers: publishers, broadcasters, advertisers, filmmakers, digital media creators and more.
Discuss business and creativity with gallery owners, museum curators and working artists in their own work spaces.
Go behind the scenes with professionals at the Museum of Modern Art, The Met, the 9/11 Memorial, and more to sample the many culture-centric careers.
Speak with and work alongside social change organizations that address issues such as inequality, poverty, conflict, the environment and human rights.
Collaborate with a major NYC professional theater company to produce and perform an original performance piece.
Have a front-row seat to the realities of international relations and global politics.
Learn from investment bankers, brokers and economists in the Financial District.
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Live, study—and even work!—in London. Navigate British life (from your flat to the pub to the Tube) and complete 16 credits across a wide selection of courses and internships.
Traditional study abroad? Sure. But if you have a few weeks, you can take a shortTREC. These travel-study courses whisk students around the world for intensive, embedded scholarship, from Italy to China to Belize.
