My daughter’s school offered 3 different programs.
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The school sponsored with same class numbers, some prof from U taught overseas. Students from a couple of different US colleges also part of the program (12 weeks in London). There was one fee that all students paid and it wasn’t tuition (found that out when doing taxes). It was a program fee paid to a third party but her university gave her all her financial aid and scholarships, including an extra scholarship for study abroad. She had to pay own travel, the program included a home stay with breakfast, and she had to pay all other food and touring costs. For her, as an OOS student, it was cheaper than a semester on campus ($9000 v about $14000). For an instate student, it was more! ($9000 v about $6000 on campus)
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Pick a program where the home university had an agreement with the foreign university, and the home university would accept all the credits. The cost was whatever the foreign university set, but some had agreements with the home school for a bargain price. I believe the home school would let students use their FA and scholarships too .
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Arrange your own study abroad. The school would work with you on accepting credits. Not sure about the school financial aid but you could use Pell grants and things like that. They did have a list of schools but you could ask them to consider other programs too.
There were also some shorter programs in the summer. Usually those were professor led, for 3-6 credits, and student financial aid was available. Last summer my daughter went on a 3 credit/3 week program and she got grants to cover the whole thing. Some of the summer things are digs in the middle east, language study while traveling in Asia, a few geology courses. Pretty cool. For these the student just registered for the course as a summer school course.