Junior Year Abroad

A college-level program in which students spend their third year of study at an accredited college in a foreign country. Junior Year Abroad programs vary from college to college, depending on official enthusiasm. Some colleges provide direct sponsorship of such programs, maintaining formal or informal relations with foreign colleges and helping students make travel, living and other arrangements for their year abroad. Other colleges leave all formal arrangements—applications, lodging, travel and so on—to individual students. Regardless of the actual sponsor, the student’s college must approve the year’s leave, approve the foreign college and accept for credit the courses of study the student intends to take overseas.