<p>Viterbi advertises student exchange programs at 3 different international universities and tuition is the same as USC. However, if you go to study abroad program via CLAS, you pay the international university tuition price plus an administration fee. </p>
<p>What is the difference between “student exchange program” and study abroad?</p>
<p>Could you give a link to the specific Viterbi program you’re talking about?</p>
<p>At a glance, the differences that I know are that the institutions may be different, and the programs likely are. The University-run exchange program covers all majors, but Viterbi runs at least two of their own exchange programs. Are you talking about the exchange with universities in China?</p>
<p>I am sorry, but I don’t know how to post the link. If you look at the Viterbi overseas student exchange page, there are 3 different places where students can study: Hong Kong, Singapore and Israel. I found the tuition price structure confusing–each university has a different price. But, Viterbi says you pay the USC tuition price same for all 3 universities (if I am understanding this correctly). Also, the exchange is for a “semester”. What if you want to go for the year? Sounds like you if you want to go abroad, you do one semester as a Viterbi exchange student and one semester as a study abroad student (same or two different universities). I am confused about the difference between “exchange” student and “study abroad” student. Thank you–please look at the Viterbi exchange programs on the USC web site.</p>
<p>Here’s the Viterbi exchange link:
[USC</a> - Viterbi School of Engineering - Exchange Programs](<a href=“http://viterbi.usc.edu/students/undergrad/overseas/exchange/]USC”>http://viterbi.usc.edu/students/undergrad/overseas/exchange/)</p>
<p>Typically “exchange” student refers to an agreement between the 2 universities, each student pays home tuition and for every student who goes to another university, that university sends one of their students. </p>
<p>Study abroad is usually open to any student and does not require a direct exchange. You usually pay the study abroad program fee, not your home tuition.</p>
<p>A benefit of the exchange program (I went through Marshall) is that all my classes transferred back as major credit, not just general elective credit.
If I had gone through the college, only a few classes would have counted towards my IR minor, with the rest counting as elective units.
So even through I had to pay USC tuition, it was worth it because I didn’t get behind on my major requirements.</p>
<p>mdcisp, to post a link you type the following, remove the space in between url</p>
<p>[u r l]<a href=“http://www.yourlink.com%5B/u”>www.yourlink.com[/u</a> r l]</p>
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<p>Or just paste the URL, vbCode will automatically parse it, e.g.,</p>
<p>[Google[/url</a>]</p>
<p>If you include http in the URL, vbCode parsing also automatically replaces the actual link with the title of the page that the link points to. However, if you paste the URL without http the parser still recognizes it but does not do the extra step of adding the title</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.google.com%5B/url%5D”>www.google.com](<a href=“http://www.google.com%5DGoogle%5B/url”>http://www.google.com)</a></p>
<p>hey GroovyGeek- you are such a nerd. It’s so funny how you don’t realize that what you wrote is just gobbledygook to many.</p>
<p>I think Geek( or Nerd in this case) made his point because I didn’t have http between my url. I was not being exact. What I meant is to put the link between the urls.</p>