lala56

which schools have the best study abroad programs apart from tufts?

adidasjed

lots of small liberal arts schools such as Colby, Colgate, n etc

lala56

any bigger schools?

warblersrule86

Many colleges will approve certain programs for study abroad even if it's not normally offered by that college. AU Cairo and British universities are fairly popular right now, for example. You may care to look over the list of colleges that strongly support study abroad.

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/col...road_brief.php

interesteddad

Most colleges these days allow students to participate in a very wide range of study abroad programs affiliated with dozens and dozens of colleges and universities. So, it really isn't terribly important whether your college offers a lot of its own programs or not.

For example, if you want to spend the year in Kyoto, Japan, the program run by Stanford is the way to go. Likewise in Spain, there's a Hamilton/Williams/Swarthmore program that students from many colleges attend.

In Rome, there's a 40 year old program now affiliated with Duke that used to be affiliated with Stanford.

Most colleges maintain a list of already approved programs on their study abroad office websites. These are programs that students from that college have already attended. You should be able to find the list for any college you are considering. I've looked at a lot of these lists when my daughter was choosing her study abroad program. The good study abroad programs are on the list at most good colleges. If you want to do something else, you can get it approved.

More important, you should investigate how the college handles finances. At some schools, you pay for the study abroad program directly plus an administrative fee to your home school. This would generally require getting approval for financial aid to be applied. Other schools have you pay the home college just like normal and the home college pays for the study abroad. This makes it really easy for financial aid to continue, but may be more expensive for a full-tuition student if the study abroad program is lower cost.

lala56

do u have to pay for study abroad? or is it part of the tuition fees?

interesteddad

Depends on the policy of your college.

At my daughter's college, you simply continue to pay normal tuition just like any other year. All financial aid applies. The college then writes the check to the study abroad program and sends the student a check to cover international airfare, additional meals if they are not included, and miscellaneous expenses.

Other colleges stay out of it entirely. You write the check to the study abroad program and pay an administrative fee ($500 or whatever) to you home college to get credit. Financial aid usually would continue, but it requires additional paperwork and would be recalculated based on the cost of the study abroad program.

Both systems have their advantages and disadvantages depending on the cost of the study abroad program compared to your home college and how much financial aid you are receiving.

These policies will be outlined on the college's study abroad office website that you should be able to find rather easily from the school's website search engine.

sybbie719

Dartmouth has a very extensive study abroad program where students take one course that is taught by a Dartmouth professor. Students can begin their study abroad programs as early as summer at the end of their freshman year. Study abroad programs are covered by the schools financial aid and if you are a financial aid recipient, the school will increase your aid if need to make sure the cost of going (exception of airfare) is covered.

http://oracle-www.dartmouth.edu/ocp/...=Programs.Home

newfoundgirlie

I think Northeastern, but I may be wrong.