Study Abroad: Need advice!

If you are doing a study abroad, contact the university in Nancy (?) where you are going to study. I assume that they would have an international students office that would be involved in coordinating your program. Or seek out whoever is in charge of study abroad programs at your home university to see if they can provide a local contact who can advise you.

It looks as if there could be other options besides going through Strasbourg. https://www.rome2rio.com/s/Frankfurt-am-Main/Nancy

Ariona, almost every airport, railway station or bus station I've been through in Europe, has signage in multiple languages, usually English, since that is the international language of business.

why not take the train directly from the rail station that is within the airport in Frankfurt, Frankfurt Flughafen, to Nancy. Your luggage stays with you the whole time. There is no baggage check-in or handling of luggage on trains. You have to carry it all yourself, so it stays with you, not like air travel. Look at bahn.com the English version of the Deutsche Bahn rail system and you can find train schedules with connections there. If necessary, there are English-speaking ticket agents at the rail station at Frankfurt Flughafen.

a quick look at bahn.com and looks like there are several trains a day making two changes. Once you see how the trains work its really fairly simple.

By the way, my daughter just returned in July from a year abroad (albeit in England), and she had a wonderful year and did lots of travelling on her school breaks. She had some incredible experiences. How many people get to spend New Year's Eve at a ball at the Rathaus in Vienna, for instance? She now has friends from many different places and is invited to a friend's wedding in Australia next spring.

She was nervous, too, which is natural, but she managed, and you will, too. Wishing you many wonderful experiences, also.

How much luggage do you have? More than you can reasonably carry?

If not, by train, you can be having a lunch at the station in Nancy before you need to leave on your bus.

There is a frequent, at least hourly copy to this plan, I picked a train 2 and a half hours after you arrive in Frankfurt to give you plenty of time to get off the plane, get through immigration, collect your luggage, walk through Customs, and get to the train station in the airport.

You could - for example -

from
Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Regionalbf depart at 08:37 towards Saarbrücken Hbf and at the end of the line there you will arrive on platform 1
You have to take you and your luggage to your next train on the next platform over, platform 2 and catch the regional train to Forbach in France. You only have 4 minutes for the change but the two platforms are adjacent.
So from Saarbrücken you are on the train for only 10 minutes and have 7 minutes for the change at Forbach for your train to Metz which will take 53 minutes on a French regional train.

Then your final change (you'll be good at it by now) is 12 minutes in Metz to the train to Nancy Ville, and you will arrive 13:11 (1:11pm) just in time for lunch. That's 20 minutes before the bus you say leaves Frankfurt.

If you have too much luggage (not a good idea) to make these connections, no problem.. There is a service at least every hour so if you miss the connection just have a cup of coffee, relax and continue on your way a little later. These are all regional trains so no ticketing issues.

Can you, perhaps, share just a little more of your plans so we can be more helpful.

Who said you have to take that bus and not the train?

Find out if there is a,list of other students going to the same program. When my daughter did this, she got the names of fellow students and arranged to meet one where she first landed and they went the rest of the way together.