International Exchange and Study Abroad Programs
Semester - Academic Year - Summer (non-faculty led)
Utilizing this website, research program choices and create a top 3 list. Your program choices should align with your academic goals to ensure credit transfer. Be sure to meet with your academic advisor and financial aid advisor to discuss your decision to study abroad. Once you have selected your top choices, print off a list of course descriptions offered by that program/university to help with course pre-approval.
To begin, select Program Search from the side menu. You may search by program name, term, city, country, and/or region.
Need Help? Peer Mentors are available to help you with the research process. If you are interested in meeting with a student who has been through a study abroad experience, email studyabroad@appstate.edu, in the subject line write Peer Mentor.
Study Abroad Advising
The Office of International Education and Development offers walk-in advising hours on Wednesdays from 3PM to 5PM (Jeanne d'Arc Gomis), Tuesdays from 11AM to 12PM (Nancy Wells), and Thursdays from 3PM to 4PM (Nancy Wells).
You must attend an information session before signing up for an appointment with a study abroad advisor.
Students may also sign up for an individual appointment in the Office of International Education and development located in I.G. Greer hall.
Available Programs
Students must work with the International Student Exchange and Study Abroad Unit in order to assure transfer of credit and proper preparation for international travel.
Appalachian's exchange and study abroad programs are the result of direct linkages with more than 30 overseas institutions where you can study; these may be exchange or study abroad programs. This is the best place to start looking for programs, but you are not limited to these.
University of North Carolina Exchange Program (UNCEP) offers exchange opportunities to NC students in at least seven countries (new programs are being added continually) while paying tuition at one's home university. This is an excellent and affordable opportunity, which provides a wide variety of choices.
International Student Exchange Program (ISEP) is a membership organization of 225 institutions in the US and abroad dedicated to the principle that a period of study abroad should be available and affordable to all students regardless of their financial situation. Students participating in an ISEP exchange pay tuition, room and board at their home institution. ISEP provides exchange opportunities in 35 countries on 5 continents. A note on competitive programs: Each ISEP program description includes the "AP ratio;" this is the key to how competitive that placement is: A=applications, i.e. the number of students who selected that institution as their first choice; P=placement, i.e. how many students were actually placed there through ISEP.
StudyAbroad.com offers information about other external programs that offer study abroad opportunities to any student who meets their admission requirements. If you have reviewed all of Appalachian's direct programs, ISEP, and UNCEP and still have not found a program that is academically appropriate for you, take a look at what StudyAbroad.com has to offer.
Complete an Application
The online application is your ASU study abroad application. All students who are studying abroad in any program MUST complete the ASU Application on the login page: http://studyabroad.appstate.edu.
- For ASU Bilateral programs, the ASU Application and the foreign institution's application is required (except Alicante).
- For ISEP programs, you MUST complete an ASU application as well as an ISEP application. The ISEP application should be turned in to the ASU Office of International Education and Development including 3 photocopies of each page. Students interested in ISEP programs, must check to see which sites are currently accepting applications: http://www.isep.org/students/US_students/sites_open_us_applications.asp.
- For UNCEP programs, you must complete an ASU application as well as an UNCEP Application. The UNCEP application should be turned in to the ASU Office of International Education and Development including 2 photocopies of each page.
To Apply
- With careful planning, it is possible for students of every discipline to study abroad. To be considered for most programs, you must have a GPA of at least 2.75. For more information, please contact studyabroad@appstate.edu.
Health Insurance - Immunizations
All students studying abroad are required to purchase ASU health insurance for $1 a day. Students accepted into an ISEP program are not required to purchase ASU health insurance but must purchase health insurance through ISEP.
Students should visit the Mary S. Shook Health Services Center to get appropriate immunizations for travel.
Mandatory Pre-Departure Orientation
All students studying abroad are required to attend the ASU pre-departure orientation. Students studying abroad in the Spring of 2010 must attend the meeting on Friday, November 20, 2009 from 2PM to 6PM at the Linville Falls Student Union.
Students enrolled in an UNCEP or ISEP program are also required to attend a pre-departure orientation on the UNCG campus in Greensboro. Students studying abroad in the Spring of 2010 must attend the orientation on Saturday, November 7th, 2009 from 10AM to 4:30PM.
