The City of Lights, Paris has been a magnet for students since the middle ages. Classes at one of the oldest universities in Europe are enriched by visits to a few of the dozens of great museums, hundreds of monuments, and thousands of churches that are part of Paris.
Most students agree that their most disappointing experience in Paris was having to leave.
The University The University of Paris - CCF Sorbonne is one of the oldest and most respected univerities in the world. The thousands of students from around the world who congregated around the Sorbonne in the middle ages spoke Latin as their common language, and the famous Latin Quarter is named for them. The Central College program has been in operation at the Sorbonne since 1965. It was the first Central College Abroad program and is one of the oldest continuously operating American programs at the Sorbonne. The goal of the program is to improve or perfect students' written, spoken, and reading knowledge of French while allowing them to study French civilization and culture.