<p>My daughter’s school has 2 main study abroad options. </p>
<p>Reciprocal Agreement where you enroll in your college and pay your tuition to your home university then are responsible for other expenses. As far as we can tell the cost would be very similar to a semester in her home university but with, of course, additional travel expenses and possibly some additional cost, depending on where she goes, because of Cost of Living Expense. Her institutional scholarships (tuition waiver in her case) *and *her federal aid can be used.</p>
<p>Affiliated/Approved programs where you have to sign up directly with the overseas school/program. The home college has to sign some sort of contractual agreement with the overseas college to allow federal aid to be used. If it is a school they have not worked with before they say it may take some time to arrange this. Institutional scholarships from her home university cannot be used.</p>
<p>As far as we can tell the affiliated programs seem more costly but we are in learning mode right now so are not experts.</p>