Located in Maryville, Missouri, Northwest Missouri State University offers over 30 different majors within the international career field. The university’s study abroad office has study abroad programs in numerous countries, which allow students to experience other cultures, languages, and peoples. The university offers a Friends of International Students program, which matches an international student with someone in the community to promote “friendship and understanding between people of different nationalities”. “Student success, Scholarship and life-long learning, Intercultural competence, Collaboration, Respect and integrity, Strategic thinking, and Excellence.”- Northwest Missouri State University Values