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Northwest Missouri State University

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Programs Offered Through Northwest

Types of Exchange Programs

  1. Bilateral or Reciprocal Exchanges
    Agreement set between two institutions with the understanding that students will be exchanged in a one per one basis.

    Mexico Exchange | Asia Exchange

    Forms of Payment:
    Northwest students pay Northwest tuition and housing and meals are paid abroad.

  2. Consortium Exchanges
    Give students the opportunity to study abroad in thirty nine different countries either by completing courses at study centers designed by the consortium for Americans and international students or by enrollment at a local university.

    Included in this type of study abroad program are:

    ISEP | Missouri-London | Magellan | MCTS

    Forms of Payment:
    * ISEP -- Northwest tuition and Northwest housing
    * Missouri-London -- Program fee paid to CAPA (includes courses, housing, and some field trips)
    * Magellan -- Tuition paid to Northwest; housing and
       meals are paid abroad
    * MCTS -- Northwest tuition + program fee (includes resident permit fees, orientation and Roosevelt Academy Student Association fees, required field trips, transcripts, and on-site support. Students are responsible for their own travel, food, and book expenses. 
  3. Affiliate Exchanges
    Programs operated by other institutions or providers.  These programs are fee-paid study abroad programs that provide study opportunities beyond those offered through bilateral agreements or consortium agreements. In this type of exchange students complete courses at local universities only.

    Included in this type of study abroad program are:

    Australearn | Eurolearn | Asialearn | ISEP -direct

    Forms of Payment:
    ISEP-direct and Australearn -- Fees paid directly to provider and nothing paid to Northwest.

  4. Faculty-Led Programs

    One of our primary tasks in Study Abroad is to assist academic departments in developing faculty-led programs where professors are able to extend their clasroom outside the U.S. for research groups or classroom learning.

    Faculty-Led

    Forms of Payment:
    Northwest tuition paid to Northwest, and program fee paid to provider.