Global Business Exchange Programs

Parent's Guide

Conclusion

We hope that your child decides to go abroad; we think it is a tremendous growth and learning opportunity. However, only the student him or herself can know what they will want to do. Study abroad provides for a learning opportunity it is impossible to get without going outside of one's comfortable and familiar environment. The academic learning, cultural understanding and appreciation, confidence and pride that come from completing a study abroad semester are lasting and valuable, and the opportunity to successfully complete something that is recognized as a challenge offers the opportunity to use it as an example in interviews, to peers, bosses and oneself of ability, flexibility, intelligence and wisdom.