<p>Most schools will offer several types of experience:</p>
<ol>
<li>Fixed site programs run and/or co-ordinated by their own faculty (or run as a consortium with a couple of peer schools).</li>
<li>One-time or occasional programs run by their own faculty.</li>
<li>Pre-approved programs run by other schools or by outside money-making contractors.</li>
<li>Other outside programs that you get get approval for ad hoc.</li>
</ol>
<p>In general, the ones that the school runs itself on a permanent basis are the real test who has “good” study abroad options. Lots of the outside, for-profit programs are notoriously uneven. If a school says “we offer study abroad in 40 countries,” beware: all they may be telling you is that they let their students go on just about any of the for-profit programs.</p>