Our faculty come from many different institutions in the Europe and North America.  (Click on "NYI Faculty").  This year we welcome new facuty from the University of Edinburgh, Hobart & William Smith, the University of Rochester, and Stony Brook University and returning faculty from Stony Brook University, the University of Bristol, the University of Southern California, UMass Amherst, St. Petersburg State University, the City University of New York and Harvard University.

Over half are from the Russia Federation.  We are proud that 40 Russian cities have sent students to NYI in its 8 years. Student groups also come from the US and Croatia. Individual students have attended from the following countries: Austria, Basque Country, Belarus, Bosnia & Herzegovina, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyryzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, The Netherlands, Palestine, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, UK, Ukraine, USA

Yes. Interested students should contact NYI directly about this option.

Anyone! (But you have to apply)   Click here to begin Application Process

NYI is a non-profit project. Costs are kept to a minimum. Cost depends on country of origin.

Please click here for detail: Cost Sheet

All students who successfully complete all their classes receive a Certificate of Completion issued jointly by St. Petersburg State University and the State University of New York. US students can also get 6-9 credits through Stony Brook Study Abroad.    For more information, visit: http://www.stonybrook.edu/studyabroad/contact_last.html 

Questions about US student program?  Please contact Study Abroad at studyabroad@stonybrook.edu, or by phone at (631) 632-7030.

The NYI staff will arrange dormitory stays for all students from outside of St. Petersburg, subject to availability. Prices may vary. When you apply, just indicate your request for a dormitory space on your application. Please contact NYI directly if you have any questions.

Faculty offer Seminars in interdisciplinary fields across the Humanities and Social Sciences.  For this year;'s offerings, click on "NYI Seminars"   Exciting new offerings in 2011 in Linguistics and Cognitive Studies include seminars on the Linguistics of American and Russian Sign Language, on Language and Life in the Middle East, on Universals of Language, on Linguistic Processing of Words and Sentences, on Formal Semantics, and on the Psychology of Sexuality. Cultural Studies offerings include Environmental History, Communism and post-communism, Race and Ethnicity, Cultural Anthropology, International Journalism, Nabakov's Lolita, Poetry without Boundaries, and Film and Politics.

Classes are held in the School of Arts and Philology at St. Petersburg State University, on the beautiful University Embankment

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