coconutcake

I'm not asking as a prospective student. I am just curious as to what people think are the most highly regarded study abroad programs available. Which specific programs, in your opinion, are the cream of the crop? Why?

zapfino

Here are some that I've heard about over the years:
U Wisconsin College Year in India
Smith in Paris
Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome
College Year in Athens
Yale in China
China & Asia-Pacific studies Program, Cornell
Associated Colleges in China, Hamilton College
Study Abroad in Japan, Earlham College
C.V. Starr-Middlebury Schools Abroad
Berlin Consortium for German Studies
Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies
Organization for Tropical Studies

It really depends on where you want to go and what you want to study.

coconutcake

These are great, thank you! I'm an alum of one of the China programs (in the 90's) and I concur that it was fantastic.

strongbeans12

at colleges?
jhu in sais bologna

keepittoyourself

Except perhaps for some intensive language schools, no study abroad is 'prestigious'. It's all just seen as an extended vacation.

basicspace

The Cambridge-MIT exchange is rather nice. Two of the best all around universities in the world giving their students an opportunity to explore another country and its cultures right after they've just been acclimated to their current one (it's in jr year). Definitely the reason (among others) I want to go to MIT so badly vs. Stanford and the like.

keepittoyourself

Just make sure Cambridge don't scam you by making you share rooms.

GeraldM

With whom? There's no shared Cambridge accomodation... Anyway, I would say Harvard-Yale-P'ton-Cornell-MIT-Stanford-CalTech exchange programs with Oxford and Cambridge.

keepittoyourself

Are you sure about that, your smugness? Some colleges have special rooms with 2 beds all year round, or move extra beds in during the summer, to make American students share.

catlover2

D is having agreat time in London at BADA for theater studies,learning a lot lots of theater trips included and nice accomodation in central london

GeraldM

Well, students on official exchange programs hardly ever get shared rooms. Summer school students...could happen, perhaps, but I hope we agree that the two are not in the same category.

keepittoyourself

Nope I know of at least one 'expensive American college at Oxbridge' programme, where the Oxbridge college owns a house with two beds per room, where the Americans stay for an entire year. I know because I had sex with one of the Americans in said house, with the sock on the door roommate warning and all. During the academic year.

paintgirl417

Sweet Briar College has two well known programs for Study Abroad called Junior year in France and Junior year in Spain.