This existed way back in the early 90s! My friends did it.
Also, there was always the option to do any kind of study abroad - semester or year - depending on the program. I did a year abroad and it was the best experience -
FYI, I’m a professor, and it is much less typical for kids to do a whole year abroad now, which is a bummer, but as long as you plan and are willing to give up something, like a sport, anyone can pull it off for a semester.
Maybe most but not all. Younger S’ major was very rigid. They had the entire 4 years mapped where you MUST take certain classes in the semester specified. You couldn’t work ahead or double up. Only way to go abroad was for the summer. He did sign up twice and had internships working for a professional soccer club in Spain. But both times it was cancelled due to Covid.
I did the Syracuse London Center 1989 in Spring. Highlight was seeing Eric Clapton at the Royal Albert Hall with Phil Collins on drums - I think I was more excited for him than Clapton. He sang Easy Lover.
Low point - the education. It wasn’t bad but Syracuse had its own center. I lived with and went to school with other Syracuse students so I wasn’t immersed in society.
If I had to do it again, I’d find a foreign school vs my own school’s center.
2 of my children chose to do a full year abroad, the third has less than zero interest in study abroad in any form. Nature v nurture.
Edited to add: Schools are becoming more and more reluctant to allow students to use their financial aid to fund a full year abroad. D20’s school changed their policy this past year and will now only fund a semester of study abroad, not a full year. If students want to do a full year, the second semester is on the students. I expect more changes like that will occur as funding shortfalls become more widespread.
Have you looked into Georgia Tech? They have a campus in Metz, France and welcome students from other universities. Georgia Tech-Europe
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