Santa Clara University

Program Options

• SCU-Operated Programs

  Santa Clara University operates a growing number of our own programs abroad. These SCU-led programs allow you to enjoy the same quality education from Santa Clara faculty members that you would experience here on the SCU home campus, and study alongside other SCU students in locations around the world. These programs usually have a higher degree of community-building with other Santa Clara students as they usually live and travel together in study centers, local university dorms, or research centers.
  
  

• Direct Exchange Programs

  Santa Clara has reciprocal exchange relationships with a number of international universities in ten countries. These direct exchanges allow a higher level of direct immersion and independence, as our students usually swap places with a student from one of our exchange schools. Students from the exchange university come to SCU, while our students enroll for a year or a semester overseas directly into the host university. Participation in an exchange program requires a higher level of language proficiency in most of the exchange schools.

• Affiliated Programs

  To provide a diversity of program options around the world, Santa Clara affiliates with a number of study abroad program providers and universities. Affiliated program options usually include two types of models: (1) “island programs” essentially involve placing American students into Study Centers overseas and teach them a variety of courses in the American system; (2) “direct enroll programs” place American students into local universities. Generally, affiliated programs offer study options around the world with a variety of different language prerequisites, housing arrangements, and course offerings.