A French coordinator serves as resident director and coordinates the students' study program, housing, field trips, and cultural events. To participate, students must have successfully completed two years of college-level French, or equivalent, and pass a screening process by the Study Abroad Selection Committee. The selection process takes place in the early fall for the upcoming spring. Guanajuato, located 4 hours northeast of Mexico City, remains one of Mexico's best preserved cities and is a major center of cultural activities. All classes are taught in Spanish at the Universidad de Guanajuato.
Classes are with Mexican and foreign students.
The cost of the program includes tuition, room and board in homestays, medical insurance, and field trips. Applicants with one or two years of college-level Spanish may apply to this program. Students may go for a semester or a full year. Classes are taught in Spanish by resident faculty to provide as near a Spanish university experience as possible. Students live with homestay families.