<p>Anyone have any insight into Study Abroad? What's the best time to do it? I'm thinking 2nd Semester Soph. year. Any problems with majoring in ChemE? Any benefits? Anything I should think about?</p>
<p>It depends on the school you go to. Usually, the engineering cirriculuim is "highly structured," so they are very picky at what they will accept as transfer credits, especially abroad. Having said that, most schools have established programs where you can go for study abroad, i.e my school has a program for second semester chem eng where you go to Belgium and take two courses there that transfer as the exact same courses as you would have taken at home.</p>
<p>My advice: go and see your advisor, or even better, the study abroad office at your school. They will know how to answer your questions, because as I said, each school has different policies/requirements.</p>
<p>Research the National Student Exchange. This isn't a study abroad program but it is a program that allows students to study elsewhere within the US (including Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, other territories) and a few Canadian universities. This is the next best thing to me. I can't really afford studying abroad and this actually is more exciting to me because I just like traveling. It is way more affordable. I would love to go to a rival school and talk stuff during football season too.</p>
<p>Thanks for the tip on National Student Exchange but I don't see that working for me unless I went to New Mexico Tech or Texas A&M. My current school is not a member of this program so I don't know if that eliminates me either. </p>
<p>I'm thinking some English-speaking country abroad like Australia or UK.</p>
<p>Aw, yeah that probably will eliminate you. However, it could always be worth a shot to talk to the various people at your school that would most likely handle things like studying abroad. You could always apply at another school as a transient student.</p>