<p>If you go overseas for study abroad or as an exchange student and the tuition is lower than at USC, what happens?</p>
<p>You pay the lower tuition. If you go somewhere more expensive than USC, you only pay USC’s tuition.</p>
<p>Not quite true. The cost depends on the program. </p>
<p>For USC College Study Abroad:
[Costs</a> > USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences](<a href=“http://college.usc.edu/costs/]Costs”>http://college.usc.edu/costs/)</p>
<p>Regular USC home school tuition ($19,285/semester in 2009-10) is charged for the following programs:
- USC Madrid Center
- USC Paris Semester
- All UK university programs
The rest of the study abroad programs through the College are charged the tuition of your study abroad school (plus a USC program fee) which is usually less than USC tuition anyways.</p>
<p>For the Marshall study abroad programs, you always pay USC tuition. But the cost of living abroad is sometimes more expensive (typically because of travels costs) so your financial aid will account for that. I had a slight increase in grant money when I studied abroad.
Marshall is an equal exchange program. So if 4 kids come to USC from Milan, we get to send 4 USC kids to Milan that year. USC kids pay USC tuition and the Milan kids pay their tuition. This is a pretty standard practice because otherwise international students could not afford to come to the United States and pay US tuition. </p>
<p>I have no idea on the cost for study abroad programs through Annenberg, Viterbi, etc.</p>