As the term indicates, an exchange is a two-way flow of students – you go out and someone comes in to take your place. You are actually admitted to and are enrolled in another university abroad. With a few exceptions you are a regular student taking regular university courses. Exchanges are usually the most cost effective programs and provide full immersion into the host country and university. K-State has many places available on exchange programs around the world.
Please keep in mind that participating in an exchange does not concern you alone. Whether you go or not affects another student who replaces you. This is because your fees are used to pay the costs for the incoming student, while that student pays for the costs for you at the university you will attend. Thus, the number of students exchanged must be equal at each university so that the fees can be paid. Should you sign-up and then pull out, you can spoil an international student's chance to come to K-State.
Czech Republic
CESP Prague
http://cesp.vse.cz/
Italy
LDM
http://www.lorenzodemedici.org/
ISEP (International Student Exchange Program) offers reciprocal exchanges in over 35 countries, which allow students to study abroad for approximately the same amount as studying at home. Many programs are taught in English (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Thailand as well as Australia, Canada, Ghana, Malta, New Zealand, South Africa and the United Kingdom). Language and Culture programs are offered in many places to learn French, German, Portuguese and Spanish. Students with four semesters of a language can do immersion programs in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese or Spanish.
The MAUI-Utrect Network Exchange Program enables students from member universities in the U.S. to study at one of the other member institutions in Europe for a semester or academic year. Each student pays tuition to his or her home university and takes regular classes at the partner institution. The participating U.S. universities are members of an organization called MAUI (Mid-America Universities International). The participating European partners are members of the Utrect Network, a group of universities cooperating in the area of internationalization.
This EU-US one-semester study program is supported by the U.S. Department of Education FIPSE (Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education) program and will continue through 2012. The program provides opportunities for seniors and graduate students to study at one of the EU partner institutions by completing coursework and/or research and broadens the field of study from food to non-food agricultural materials and applications. Kansas State University is partnering with The University of Arkansas and Iowa State University in an EU-US Consortium. European partners include Ghent University, Belgium; Karl Franzens University, Graz, Austria; and National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France. An important objective of the consortium is to facilitate senior and graduate transatlantic study in the area of biomaterial production and utilization.