Welcome to SIUC and Carbondale! You will have to leave home and everything that you know for miles and miles away. Fortunately, though you are now in an unfamiliar land, things will not be as bad as it seems, think of this as an adventure and this website is your guide to the unknown. Many people have come to Carbondale, and found it to be pleasant, so much so they stay on till they get their Ph.D’s. 

Here are some guide’s on staying in the USA as an international student.

Click on the links below to website.

http://www.edupass.org/living/

http://www.internationalstudent.com/study_usa/blog/

http://www.educationusa.state.gov/ 

http://www.istudentcity.com/

http://www.ips.siu.edu/ISS/admitted.html