student exchange

Overseas study program

A student exchange is an arrangement where students temporarily attend school in another country or region, often swapping places with a counterpart who attends theirs.

The practice aims to promote cultural understanding and language learning: She spent junior year on a student exchange in Germany.

The term also refers to the programs that facilitate such arrangements.

Opposites
permanence of relocation

student exchangeimmigration

Relocating abroad permanently

emigration · expatriation · resettlement · naturalization · asylum

direction/reciprocity

student exchangebrain drain

Emigration of skilled workers

mobility vs. stasis

student exchangestaying home

Not going out

staying put · insularity · provincialism

Family

student, exchange, exchange student

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