Abstract
What makes 600,000 young people from all over the world come to study in the United States? Is it the reputation of the US degrees? The efficient teaching methods? Life on campus? Studying in the United States is a dream for a large number of students in the world. A lot of movies and serials give us a dreamy image of what a US campus is. They make us believe that it must be very easy to integrate in such an environment. As our entire group members had at least once thought of spending one year on an American College or still plan to do it, we decided to focus on the integration of French students on US campuses. Many questions arose: is it easy? What problems do students have? When do they feel integrated? Therefore, our main issue will be to find out how French students can experience a successful integration on a US campus. Thus, we thought about the following question: What are the decisive factors in matters of integration?
