Students participate in NSE in order to:
- experience personal growth
- live in a different geographic area
- become more independent and resourceful
- broaden personal and educational perspectives
- explore and appreciate new cultures
- widen university boundaries
- take courses not offered on their home campus
- learn from different professors
- access courses with different perspectives
- explore new areas of study
- investigate graduate or professional schools
- look for future employment opportunities
- break out of their comfort zones
- acquire life skills
- experience life from a different point of view
IMPACT OF THE EXCHANGE EXPERIENCE
For participating NSE students, the year on exchange is usually the most significant and enjoyable year in their education. Students return home with a fresh outlook on their education and better able to define academic and career objectives. It is also a year of dramatic personal growth and maturity, particularly for students who are not well-traveled or have lived most of their lives in the region where they are attending college. Students frequently return from exchange with more self-confidence and independence, greater decision-making skills, better able to take risks, and with a better defined view of their future.
It is not unusual for NSE students to consider, after returning to their home environment, participation in a study abroad program as well as graduate school and employment opportunities outside of their home region. Like study abroad, volunteerism, internships and research, NSE is an enhancement of your undergraduate program, demonstrating to graduate schools and future employers that you have gone beyond the expected.
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