I am a college student and I want to do an exchange program to japan but my school doesnt offer it. I am taking japanese as a language right now and will take it for the next three semesters.. unless I could spend one or two of thoes semesters in japan!! I do not know anything about exchange programs. What are my options as a 20 year old college student?
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You need to research organizations that work with students that want to study abroad and offer study abroad in Japan. A good one I was considering going with is CEA. I know there are many organizations out there that work with students. Main thing to check for when you are researching organizations and programs is to make sure that your credits are going to transfer. I'm sure if you type in study abroad in google many organizations are going to come up in the results. Some organizations are better than others so you will want to go with the one that looks the best to you and works with a school oversees that offers what you need. Another thing to do is to go talk to a study abroad counselor at your school they should already have a list of third party organizations that offer study abroad in Japan, if your school doesn't have one try going to your regular advisor or counselor and they should be able to help you some. Good luck!
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You can do a study abroad program via another school. For example, NYU offers study abroad opportunities for people who are not NYU students. I believe that Syracuse, Boston University, and SUNY (New Paltz, Oneonta and others) also offer study abroad opportunities that are open to students from other universities. These are often in the summer, but they can be during term-time. Your home university's student exchange office should be able to provide you with a list of opportunities. I'll link to a few, below, to get you started. In addition, you can sometimes arrange your own time abroad directly with the foreign university. For example, Charles University, in Prague, offers semester, summer and year-long programs for foreign students who want to learn Czech. I'd imagine some of the Japanese universities would offer similar. You'd need to research the universities and check their webpages or contact them directly. But the easiest thing will probably to be to go through another US university.
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u can do an exchange program online and Free. see this site and click online courses or use search on this site. http://www.OnlineStudyInfo.com I hope u like my answer. Best Regards Dr. Alishah
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Hi!! there is a great exchange program in Japan, called World Campus International. You can check it out on www.worldcampus.org. If you need more information, you can e-mail me, or somebody of the contacts on that site. Hope this answer helps you!
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I found my study abroad advisor to be useless- this is what I ended up doing. I surfed the net and found two programs I liked- one for Tokyo Metropolitan University and one for World Link education. You don't need to go through your school office to participate, however it does mean you have to do all the paperwork yourself. As for going on other schools' programs, you are at the mercy of their open slots and extra fees. There may not be slots open for you after a program is open to their students, and the fees for "visitor tuition" are ridiculous. You may as well go by yourself for that price. Studying abroad is the best thing I ever did. I learned way more Japanese than I did in the states.
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