Student Exchange Programs

National Student Exchange Program

Leslee Mayers, Coordinator
B009 Kerr Administration Building
541-737-7627 
leslee.mayers@oregonstate.edu
Web site: http://oregonstate.edu/nse

Through the National Student Exchange (NSE) academically qualified students are given the opportunity to spend a term or academic year at another school while paying in-state tuition rates. Credits earned during the exchange become a part of each student’s OSU transcript.

More than 190 colleges and universities across the country currently participate in the National Student Exchange program. While on exchange, students have the opportunity to experience a different learning environment, to broaden social and cultural awareness, and to live in another part of the United States, Guam, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands or Canada. OSU students who have gone on exchange often describe the opportunity as the highlight of their college career and one of the most meaningful times of their lives.

To qualify, a student must be:

1. a full-time student;
2. in good standing with at least a 2.50 cumulative grade-point average at the time of application and during the quarter prior to exchange; and
3. an undergraduate who has earned at least 45 credits at the time the exchange begins.

Each year applications are available beginning November 1 and are due mid-February 15 in the New Student Programs office.