Summit Global Education

Brazil destination

Study business, culture, media, and city life in Rio de Janeiro.

Rio de Janeiro is the main coursework base for the Brazil route, with class meetings, ESPM partner context, creative industries, public institutions, urban identity, and Brazilian culture.

What to notice

See a familiar city in a new academic context.

Rio brings creative industries, public life, tourism, inequality, urban geography, and Brazilian culture into the final academic block.

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Use Rio as the main academic base where coursework, faculty discussion, and Brazil observations come together.

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Study how business, culture, media, tourism, public life, inequality, and urban geography shape how organizations operate.

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Examine a city students recognize through business, culture, and institutional questions in class.

Student experience

Rio de Janeiro gives students something specific to study.

The city matters when visits, neighborhoods, institutions, and daily routines give students new material for the course.

Brazil program students overlooking Rio de Janeiro

Rio

Study Rio beyond its famous image

Students look beyond Rio's famous image to study its culture, media, institutions, and business.

Students attending an ESPM classroom session in Brazil

Coursework base

Use Rio as the main academic base

Class meetings use Rio observations to draw together the broader Brazil program.

Coursework base

Rio brings together class meetings, ESPM partner context, field observations, and final reflection on the route.

City image and reality

Study how media, tourism, inequality, geography, and culture shape what organizations do in the city.

Rio anchors the academic program

Rio brings the Brazil coursework together through class meetings, field observations, housing context, and winter break or J-term timing.

Next step

Ask how Rio de Janeiro fits the program.

Request program details for courses, timing, housing, credit review, and the role this destination plays in the student experience.