The advancement of technology has created a multitude of opportunities and interconnectedness. It has also created risks that we are vulnerable to every day. When you study Computer Science at VU Amsterdam you’ll explore the aspects of Networks and Security. You’ll learn from lecturers who are conducting high-level research, as well as maintaining connections with industry. Classes are taken alongside Dutch and other international students.
VU Amsterdam is a highly competitive program. Students applying for this program will be waitlisted for admission, and will know their acceptance decision no later than March 15 for fall semester and October 15 for spring semester. We encourage you to work with your CEA CAPA Student Advisor to identify a backup program option.
Amsterdam
1/30/25 - 6/27/25
$23,795
15 - 18
Closed
10/15/24
3.0
Some courses may have prerequisites.
1 Year of College completed prior to program start
The host institution has offered the following courses in the past. Please note that course listings will not be finalized until the start of the term.
*Courses with an asterisk indicate that the course has been associated with multiple subject areas.
Please click on the course title to view additional subject areas and detailed course information.
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Accounting Information Systems- Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Accounting I-Period 4 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Financial Accounting - Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Quantitative Research Methods III - Accounting and Marketing - Period 4 * | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Contesting Images - Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Biochemistry - Period 4+5 * | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Accounting, Business and Society - Period 4 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Advanced Simulation for Finance, Economics and Business - Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Business Intelligence and Analytics- Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Business Research Methods - Qualitative - Period 4 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Business Statistics- Period 4 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Consumer Behavior- Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Digital Innovation and Virtual Organizing in a Global Setting- Period 4 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
IBA LAB I - Period 4 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Behaviour and Communication in Organizations - Period 4 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Document Design - Period 4 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Spoken Language and Gesture - Period 4 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Automata and Complexity- Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Computer Organization - Period 4 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Machine Learning for Econometrics and Data Science - Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Software Design - Period 4 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Discover Dutch: Language & Culture | 100 | Ot | 84 | 3 |
Imagining the Dutch: Themes Dutch History | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Econometrics II - Period 4+5 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Econometrics III- Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Macroeconomics I - Period 4 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Mathematical Economics II - Period 4+5 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Mathematical Economics III - Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Microeconomics II - Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Operations Research II - Period 4+5 * | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Operations Research III - Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Public Economics - Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Quantitative Research Methods III - Economics and Finance - Period 4 * | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Data Engineering - Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Discourse Analysis- Period 4 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Early Modern Literature and Ecocriticism - Period 4 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Literature and Globalization - Period 4 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Literature in a Changing World 1 - Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Asset Pricing - Period 4 | 400 | En | 84 | 3 |
Financial Markets and Institutions- Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Beyond Gender Inequalities - Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
European History 1800-present- Period 4 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
History of Knowledge- Period 4 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
The History of Collecting and Exhibiting (1500-present) - Period 4 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
The Maghreb in Global History - Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Communication Cultures - Period 4 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Dyslexia - Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Foreign Language Teaching - Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Language Change - Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Metaphor in Professional Settings - Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Competition Law- Period 4 | 400 | En | 84 | 3 |
Corporations, Conflict and International Crimes- Period 4 | Graduate | En | 84 | 3 |
European Consumer Law in a Digital Society- Period 4 | Graduate | En | 84 | 3 |
Fundamental Rights in Europe- Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Human Rights Protection in Europe- Period 4 | 400 | En | 84 | 3 |
International Intellectual Property Law - Period 4 | 400 | En | 84 | 3 |
International Weapons Law - Period 4 | Graduate | En | 84 | 3 |
Migration and Legal Remedies - Period 4 | 400 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Foundations of Strategic Management- Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Leading Organizational Change - Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Managing People: A Global Perspective - Period 4 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Social Media Analytics - Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Literature in a Visual Culture 1 - Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Narrativity in the Media - Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
New Media Challenges - Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Modern Philosophy - Period 4 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Philosophy of Mind - Period 4 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Philosophy of Science - Period 4 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
From Quantum to Molecule - Period 4 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
History of Political Thought- Period 4 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Emotion and Social Cognition - Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Sensation and Perception - Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Stress and Health - Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Comparing Theologies and Philosophies of Religion - Period 4 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Exegesis New Testament - Period 4 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Exegesis Old Testament - Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Hebrew I + Old Testament - Period 4 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
History of Christianity - Period 4 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Religious Myths and Rituals - Period 4 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Challenges of the 21st Century- Period 4 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Confronting Commodity Chains - Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Towards Better Care and Welfare: Let's Stick Together - Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Global Supply Chain Management- Period 4 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Procurement and Supply Management - Period 4 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Accounting- Period 5 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Auditing-Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Management Accounting - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Anthropology of Religion - Period 5 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells in Toxicology and Drug Discovery - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Structure Biology - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Differential Privacy and Statistical Inference under Differential Privacy - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
IBA LAB II - Period 5 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Improving Planetary Health: A Learning Lab for Social Entrepreneurship - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
International Business Law - Period 5 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Small Business Development - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Discourse and Social Interaction - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
First Language Acquisition and Language Impairment - Period 5+6 * | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Globalisation and Localisation - Period 5 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Media Use in Organizational Contexts - Period 5+6 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Morphology and Semantics - Period 5 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Persuasive Communication - Period 5 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Science Communication for Researchers - Period 5 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Visual Rhetoric - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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AI & Society: Fixing Algorithmic Decision Making - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Big Data in Biomedical Sciences - Period 5 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Computational Intelligence - Period 5 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Computer Networks- Period 5 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Fair, Transparent and Interpretable Machine Learning - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Information Management for CS - Period 5 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Logic and Modelling - Period 5 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Text Mining for AI - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Economics and Management of Organizations-Period 5 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Environmental and Transport Economics - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Monetary Economics - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
British Literature 1900-present - Period 5+6 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
English: International Communication - Period 5+6 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Literature in a Changing World 2 - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Novel and Identity: Women Writers in the Eighteenth Century - Period 5+6 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Shakespeare on Film - Period 5+6 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
The Structures of English - Period 5+6 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Corporate Finance - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Corporate Finance: A Sustainability Perspective - Period 5 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Finance I- Period 5 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Financial Econometrics- Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Inclusive Growth and Sustainability- Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
International Financial Management - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Investments - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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International Public Health (BMED) - Period 5 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Pathophysiology of Heart and Circulatory System - Period 5 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Risk and Health Communication - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
History of Social Science - Period 5 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Latin America in Modern History - Period 5+6 * | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
World History 1800-Present - Period 5 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Language Testing - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Life Writing - Period 5 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Psycholinguistics - Period 5 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
World Heritage and Conflict - Period 5 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Documentary Film, International Law & World Politics- Period 5 | 400 | En | 84 | 3 |
EU Anti-Discrimination Law - Period 5 | 400 | En | 84 | 3 |
International Labour Law: Multinational Corporations in a Globalizing World - Period 5 | 400 | En | 84 | 3 |
Law and Ethics on Robots and Artificial Intelligence - Period 5 | Graduate | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Management Consulting and Strategic Change - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Managing and Improving Quality - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Strategic Management from a Practice Perspective: A Day in the Life of a CEO - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Cross Cultural Marketing- Period 5 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Digital Marketing and Metrics- Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Global Marketing Innovation - Period 5 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Value Based Marketing - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Introduction to Statistics - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Literature in a Visual Culture 2 - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Behaviour and the Brain part 1: Addiction - Period 5 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Continental Philosophy- Period 5 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Metaphysics - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Philosophy and Ethics - Period 5 | 200 | En | 42 | 1.5 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Themes in Political History - Period 5+6 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Cognition and Emotion- Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Cooperation and Competition- Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Human Resource Development - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Molecular Genetics - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Comparative Religious Ethics - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Dogmatics - Period 5 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Global Religion- Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Hebrew II + Old Testament - Period 5 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Hinduism - Period 5 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
History and Theology of Evangelicalism - Period 5 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Judaism - Period 5 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Religious History and Present of Low Countries and Amsterdam - Period 5 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Empowering People for Societal Changes - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Global Sustainability Analysis - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Sustainable Energy: Biomass and Biofuels - Period 5 | 200 | En | 42 | 1.5 |
The Human Dimension of Sustainable Development: From Ideal to Reality - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Contemporary Theology - Period 5 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Introduction to Systematic Theology - From a Peace Church Perspective - Period 5 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Practical Theology - Period 5 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Theology and Spirituality of Calvin - Period 5 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Business Processes- Period 6 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Language Policy in Multilingual Settings - Period 6 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Applied Programming for AI - Period 6 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Information Management- Period 6 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Project Big Data - Period 6 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
The Law of Artificial Intelligence - Period 6 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Advanced Practical - Period 6 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Security and Safety Engineering - Period 6 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Software Engineering Processes - Period 6 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Epidemiology - Period 6 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Immunology - Period 6 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
International Public Health - Period 6 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
---|---|---|---|---|
Ethics - Period 6 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Language, Culture and Variation - Period 6 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Mathematical Modelling of Dynamical Systems - Period 6 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Behaviour and the Brain 2: Cognitive Neuroscience - Period 6 | 200 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Philosophy of Science and Ethics - Period 6 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Text Course II - Period 6 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
Course Name | Level | Lang | Hours | Credits |
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Hebrew III + Old Testament - Period 6 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Introduction to the Old Testament - Period 6 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Islam - Period 6 | 100 | En | 84 | 3 |
Religions, Media and Popular Culture - Period 6 | 300 | En | 84 | 3 |
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*Housing options may change and will be confirmed on the housing application form prior to the start of the term. Below are the housing options that have been offered in the past.
Get out and explore! Excursions are offered for most semester, year, and summer programs. Semester students are typically offered between two to three excursions and summer study students are typically offered between one to two excursions. You'll receive a calendar of excursions during orientation; here are a few day and overnight excursions we've offered in the past.
From housing to excursions, our programs include a variety of inclusions to enhance your study abroad experience! Here are examples that may be available in Amsterdam. Inclusions vary by program – please contact our Enrollment and Advising team to find out what options are available for you.
Below is a tentative itinerary for your program. Please note, dates and events below may change without prior notification. Contact CEA CAPA before purchasing airline tickets.
You will receive a finalized itinerary once you arrive onsite.
Note: Additional cultural activities/excursions or required course-related activities may be incorporated into your final itinerary. You are advised not to make personal travel arrangements until you have the final dates.
Date | Description |
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January 30
|
Arrival/Program Begins
Official Program Start Date. Students must arrive at the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport on this date in order to be eligible for airport pickup. Students will then be transferred to their assigned housing. |
February 01
|
Orientation
Mandatory Vrije Universiteit (VU) Orientation will be held. |
February 02
|
Orientation
Mandatory CEA CAPA Orientation will be held. |
February 03
|
Classes Begin
Classes begin at VU on this day. |
April 28 - May 02
|
School Break
VU is closed for Spring Break. No classes will be held. |
June 27
|
Program Ends/Move-Out
Official Program End Date. Students must move out of housing no later than this day. |
June 27
|
Classes End
This is the last day of classes at VU. |
This budget contains costs that you can take to your financial aid office. Please note that amounts may fluctuate; we've included a range of costs.
Federal law allows the use of financial aid to cover "reasonable" costs of study abroad including round-trip transportation, tuition and fees for the program, living costs, passport and visa fees, health insurance, and more.
Please note that all costs and charges listed below are subject to change without notice. With the exception of Program Price, all costs are estimates and may vary.