Find A Study Away Program
National Student Exchange (NSE)
The National Student Exchange is a consortium of over 165 member campuses (including Ball State) across the USA & Canada. Ball State students can spend a semester or year away with NSE. Participants stay enrolled at Ball State but live and study at one of the member campuses—it's like a foreign exchange program, except it’s domestic.
The ~165 campus options are in 48 states, plus Puerto Rico, Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Canada. Campuses include research institutions, liberal arts colleges, historically black colleges and universities (HBCU), land-grant, sea-grant, sun-grant, space-grant, Hispanic serving institutions (HSI), private schools, and Asian American Native American Pacific Islander-serving institutions (AANAPISI). Settings in big cities, small towns, islands, mountains, and everything in between. The language of instruction isn't limited to English-- you can take your classes in Spanish in Puerto Rico or in French in Quebec.
This program is designed to be accessible to all BSU students. Students will continue paying their regular Ball State tuition and fees during their exchange (so in-state students here are still in-state there, even if the exchange is to Alaska). Financial aid is processed at home. Room and board is the only item typically paid at the host school. The fee to participate is just $250.
To get more information about this opportunity, visit the website for the National Student Exchange (nse.org) or contact Ball State’s NSE coordinator. You will complete both the NSE application and BSU Study Abroad/Away application.
Apply Now