Global E3 offers variety. There are more than 42 study sites worldwide, many of which provide instruction in English. While some sites require proficiency in a foreign language, there are many opportunities with English as the language of instruction. Global E3 is affordable. Because of the exchange arrangement, the Global E3 program fee is based on students' cost at home.
Participants continue to pay their regular resident or nonresident tuition and fees to Iowa.
This creates a slot for an arriving Global E3 student to study at Iowa, and the Iowa student in turn occupies the slot left behind by a departing student at the foreign institution. Additional costs include airfare and personal expenses. Global E3 is a total immersion program. Global E3 participants register as a regular student at the host institution, take the same courses, have the same assignments and participate in the same activities as local students at that institution. Typically Global E3 placement requires advance planning.