Skip to main content

Popular Searches

National Student Exchange

Student smiling in history class. Students hanging outside during Spring Fling. Students studying together.
Default Hero Image

Education Through Exploration

Through the National Student Exchange, you can take your studies further than you ever imagined. This program—featuring institutions in nearly every state, from Hawaii to Alaska to Maine, in addition to Canada, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the US Virgin Islands—allows you to experience studying away from your home campus.

How it Works

Students studying together.
Accent texture

Everything you need to know.

Learn the ins and outs of the National Student Exchange. How to get a placement. How to apply. Program options. It’s all covered here.
Begin Your Journey

Outgoing Participants

Students walk across campus together.
Accent texture

Learn how to set up your trip.

If you’re a Purdue Fort Wayne student looking for more info about participating in the program, discover everything you need to know here.
Learn More

Incoming Participants

Students jumping in a bounce house at a Student Housing Event.
Accent texture

Discover the benefits of PFW.

If you’re a student from another university coming to study at Purdue Fort Wayne for your exchange program, find out more about our university.
Take a Look

Benefits

Why participate?

 

Purdue Fort Wayne has helped hundreds of students participate in the National Student Exchange program. Each student had their own reasons for undertaking this journey; however, the following is a list of some of the common benefits participants reported receiving.

1

Academic Benefits

  • Take classes not available at Purdue Fort Wayne
  • Study with new professors and experts in your field 
  • Broaden your educational perspective 
  • Pursue research, field study, and internship opportunities
  • Investigate graduate schools
2

Personal Benefits

  • Experience personal growth and independence 
  • Live in different geographic and cultural settings 
  • Gain international and/or intercultural understanding 
  • Explore the historical and cultural makeup of the United States, US territories, and Canada
3

Professional Benefits

  • Make connections in a new job market
  • Develop practical skills 
  • Increase collaboration experience
  • Prepare yourself to live and work in a culturally diverse society

Contact Us

Have questions?

 

Contact Purdue Fort Wayne’s National Student Exchange program at [email protected], or find us in the Liberal Arts Building, Room 264.