Some programs may look less expensive at first glance, but may not include everything most AHA programs do, like tuition, course materials, lodging, educational excursions, insurance, and when necessary, local transportation passes. No matter what college or university you attend, course credit can be earned for any of our programs, either through your home campus directly or through one of our consortia schools. Financial aid is also completely portable at most schools. Let us know if you need more information on either earning credit or obtaining financial aid. However, you do have the option to extend your time abroad by spending an extra term or semester at the same site or a different site.
Summer sessions are also available at a number of our sites.
At many of our sites, you're not required to know the native language prior to studying abroad. Due to the contacts and connections we have overseas, you'll be able to visit places and meet people that you'd never have the opportunity to see or experience on your own. Excursions are definitely a highlight of our study abroad programs - if you're like most of our other students, you'll enjoy them so much that you'll forget you're actually learning something at the same time. The challenges of studying in a foreign country are great enough without having to deal with things like figuring out the local transportation system, registering for school, finding an apartment, and searching for the cheapest places to eat - especially when you don't speak the language. On AHA programs, those kinds of challenges disappear.