visiting student

Short-term academic guest

A visiting student is someone enrolled at one institution who temporarily attends another for a semester or year, typically to access specific courses, programs, or experiences unavailable at their home school.

The arrangement usually involves credit transfer back to the home institution: She spent junior year as a visiting student at Oxford.

Distinguished from transfer students, who permanently change schools.

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