Hurricane Florence will most definitely be keeping Hokies inside this weekend. Heavy rain, high wind, and overall miserable weather is coming our way quickly. What a better way to spend a few days stuck inside then researching study abroad opportunities?
We’re here to make your research a little easier for you. We’ve created a quick-guide to our program search portal to help you familiarize yourself with the different ways to research potential programs. Feel free to follow along with our program comparison chart.
Want to find programs quickly based on limited criteria? Already know a few programs you are interested in? Great!
You can search by program name, term, city, country, or region. Click on the programs you’re interested in for more information!
Maybe you are interested in a particular location. First click on the continent and then click on the country.
You can learn more about the individual programs offered in that country by clicking on the program name.
This is a list of ALL the featured Virginia Tech study abroad programs. These are usually designed by VT faculty and sponsored by a specific VT department/college.
Take a while to read through this list, clicking on the programs you find interesting. You can even “save” your favorite programs by clicking on the icon to the right of the program description.
Maybe you’re already sold on studying abroad at the Steger Center, Virginia Tech’s facility in Switzerland. Here is a complete list of study abroad programs available at the Steger Center.
Click on the program name for more information and start your pro/con lists!
Exchanges
There are three different ways to study abroad through an exchange program:
(1) VT Exchange
Virginia Tech has partnerships with 70 universities around the world that participate in student exchange!
This section of the program search portal is essentially a list of these universities – with their city, country, and region listed beside them. Take a look at this list, clicking on the universities you’re interested in and saving your favorites.
(2) ISEP Exchange
Virginia Tech partners with ISEP, a non-profit educational organization with a network of hundreds of universities for student exchanges.
ISEP provides you with a list of all the possible universities who accept VT exchange students. You can narrow your search by entering more information such as your desired semester, year, location, field of study, language, and various other filters.
(3) ISEP Direct
ISEP also offers Virginia Tech students with direct enrollment options to universities worldwide.
ISEP provides you with a list of all the possible universities who accept VT students for direct enrollment. You can narrow your search by entering more information such as your desired semester, year, location, field of study, language and various other filters.
Virginia Tech keeps a running list of some non-VT study abroad organizations that can help act as an intermediate for general study abroad logistics such as housing, academics, travel, etc.
In many countries, it is very inexpensive to enroll into a university. Sometimes it’s even free! But – be sure to make sure that they allow for enrollment without a partnership and that your credits can be transferred and accepted by Virginia Tech.
If you’re looking for an international experience that’s different from a traditional study abroad program, explore some of the options listed here.
There are TONS of ways to get international experience. Here are some resources VT has collected for you:
However you may choose to do it, getting international experience is so incredibly important. Hopefully learning about all the places you can go brought a little bit of sunshine to your rainy weekend. Stay dry and safe out there, Hokies!
