true <div class="widget_big"> <h1>interstudy Package</h1> <ul class="students_package"> <li> <p>Here is a short listing of what our program fees include.</p> </li> <li> <div class="students_package_subtitle"><img src="/images/icons/icon_list_square_content.gif" border="0" alt="" />&nbsp; <h4 style="display:inline;"><strong>Tuition &amp; General Fees</strong></h4> </div> <p>interstudy program fees include the Academic Enrollment Fee, Educational Costs, and Housing Costs. The interstudy program fees also cover general operating expenses.</p> </li> <li> <div class="students_package_subtitle"><img style="border: 0px initial initial;" src="/images/icons/icon_list_square_content.gif" border="0" alt="" />&nbsp; <h4 style="display:inline;"><strong>Scholarship Opportunities</strong></h4> </div> <p>interstudy offers a number of scholarship opportunities based on both need and merit, ranging in value from $500 to $1000.</p> </li> <li> <img style="border: 0px initial initial;" src="/images/icons/icon_list_square_content.gif" border="0" alt="" />&nbsp; <h4 style="display:inline;"><strong>Flexible Payment Plans</strong></h4> <p>interstudy recognizes that investments in education can be costly. As an organization trying to further the educational values of study abroad, we strive to provide you and your parents with realistic ways to pay. We are willing to set up individual, customized payment plans that meet your needs.</p> </li> <li> <img style="border: 0px initial initial;" src="/images/icons/icon_list_square_content.gif" border="0" alt="" /> <h4 style="display:inline;"><strong>Campus or Student Housing With Host Country Students</strong></h4> <p>You live on, or near to campus, often in campus housing, and always with a mix of other interstudy, host country, and international students.</p> </li> <li> <img style="border: 0px initial initial;" src="/images/icons/icon_list_square_content.gif" border="0" alt="" /> <h4 style="display:inline;"><strong>International Bank Account and Money Transfer<br /></strong></h4> <p>For South Africa and Ireland-bound students, we assist you in setting up a local bank account. interstudy has developed a system to allow the transfer of funds from the United States to your program site bank account which bypasses currency exchange fees. This service has been developed for the benefit of you and your family. The bank account is also linked to the optional interstudy monthly meal allowance plan.</p> </li> <li> <img style="border: 0px initial initial;" src="/images/icons/icon_list_square_content.gif" border="0" alt="" />&nbsp; <h4 style="display:inline;"><strong>Meal Allowance</strong></h4> <p>For South Africa and Ireland-bound students, interstudy offers an optional meal allowance which gets transfered into your bank account instead of requiring that you subscribe to a University-based plan. Meal money is distributed in the local currency and you will find that it generally covers most meals. You can purchase meals on-campus or you can choose to eat out-on-the-town or at home.*</p> <p><em>*There are three exceptions: Rhodes University, University of the Western Cape, and the University of the Witwatersrand. These Universities require campus-based meal plans.&nbsp; These plans will be added to the interstudy program fees for these locations.</em></p> </li> <li> <img style="border: 0px initial initial;" src="/images/icons/icon_list_square_content.gif" border="0" alt="" /> <h4 style="display:inline;"><strong>Comprehensive International Medical Insurance </strong></h4> <p>As part of your program fee, you will receive full international medical insurance. The insurance is reimbursement-based insurance and does not include dental insurance.</p> </li> <li> <img style="border: 0px initial initial;" src="/images/icons/icon_list_square_content.gif" border="0" alt="" /> <h4 style="display:inline;"><strong>Student Union Membership and ISIC Card</strong></h4> <p>interstudy does its best to encourage integration of interstudy students into the host country student population. You will receive a student union membership for the campus at which you are studying. This means different things on different programs, but it always ensures that you can use all of the university facilities, can come and go as you please, and can have an opportunity to meet host country students outside of a classroom environment.</p> </li> <li>You will also receive an ISIC card (International Student Identity Card) which entitles you to discounts on everything from train and airfare, to museum entrance fees. The card also provides a basic level of personal insurance. </li> <li> <img style="border: 0px initial initial;" src="/images/icons/icon_list_square_content.gif" border="0" alt="" />&nbsp; <h4 style="display:inline;"><strong>Cell Phone</strong></h4> <p>interstudy provides you with a cell phone (with personal phone number and voice mail) for the term you are abroad on the interstudy program. This system allows friends and family to easily contact you abroad, and it also insures that interstudy can reach you quickly in the event of any emergency.</p> </li> <li> <img style="border: 0px initial initial;" src="/images/icons/icon_list_square_content.gif" border="0" alt="" />&nbsp; <h4 style="display:inline;"><strong>On-Site Arrival Program</strong></h4> <p>interstudy provides an on-site arrival program. In most cases, an interstudy staff member meets you at the airport. This allows you to get a sense of you new surroundings and start integrating right away. Arrival topics vary from campus-to-campus but the general outline includes: Welcome and Introduction, Course Matters, Excursions, Telecommunications, Banking, Campus Tour, Housing, and Health and Safety.</p> </li> <li> <img style="border: 0px initial initial;" src="/images/icons/icon_list_square_content.gif" border="0" alt="" />&nbsp; <h4 style="display:inline;"><strong>Excursion Program</strong></h4> <p>Each semester interstudy sponsors an overnight weekend excursion as well as a separate one-day excursion. During the excursions, interstudy students come together to explore and get a taste of what their surroundings offer. You have a chance to get to know your peers from other programs, exchange experiences from respective campuses, and travel to locations you maybe would not get to see otherwise. The excursions include all transportation, accommodation and ticket charges. Excursion itineraries change each semester but past trips for Britain and Ireland students have included stops at: Bath, Brighton, Cambridge, Chester, the Lake District, London, Oxford, Salisbury, Stonehenge, Stratford-upon-Avon, Windsor and York. Excursions for South Africa and Botswana students have included stops at: Robben Island, De Hoop Nature Reserve, Valley of Desolation, Drakensberg, St. Lucia Estuary, and Theewaterskloof Dam. Students have gone on game drives, enjoyed braais, canoed, camped, gone to surf school, explored Roman Villas, climbed medieval walls and castles, and toured Shakespeare's birthplace.</p> </li> <li> <img style="border: 0px initial initial;" src="/images/icons/icon_list_square_content.gif" border="0" alt="" /> <h4 style="display:inline;"><strong>Assistance With Course Approvals</strong></h4> <p>As part of our standard application process, you will pre-register for courses or departments. You will have them approved in advance by your home institutions so you know the credits will transfer back upon completion of your time abroad. While many institutions abroad do not finalize registration for classes until you are on-campus, interstudy cross-checks your selected classes and then queries the appropriate persons abroad to ensure that the courses chosen are being offered and are available for enrollment during the semester.</p> </li> <li> <img style="border: 0px initial initial;" src="/images/icons/icon_list_square_content.gif" border="0" alt="" />&nbsp; <h4 style="display:inline;"><strong>End-of-Program Transcript</strong></h4> <p>Upon successful completion of an interstudy program, interstudy issues the final transcript. It is signed by interstudy, as well as the Registrar of the sponsoring institution. Transcripts give full details of courses taken, final letter grades received, and semester hour credits awarded. Official transcript copies are signed, sealed and sent directly to your home institution for transfer credit evaluation. You will typically receive full course credits which can count towards the completion of your major.</p> <p>If a U.S. based transcript is required for credit evaluation, interstudy is able to issue official program transcripts through its US School of Record, the University of the Pacific, for an additional fee.</p> </li> <li> <img style="border: 0px initial initial;" src="/images/icons/icon_list_square_content.gif" border="0" alt="" />&nbsp; <h4 style="display:inline;"><strong>Program Support</strong></h4> <p>interstudy offers a high level of support at all times, making the transition from life in the US to a foreign country and back again as smooth as possible. We provide information and orientation at every step of the way from the moment you apply until you return. Additionally, you have peace of mind knowing that interstudy provides full-time on-campus support through our affiliations with the International Student Office at each program location. interstudy staff are also located in Ireland and South Africa.</p> </li> <li> <img style="border: 0px initial initial;" src="/images/icons/icon_list_square_content.gif" border="0" alt="" />&nbsp; <h4 style="display:inline;"><strong>Two Campus Option</strong></h4> <p>If you are applying for the full-year interstudy program, you have the option of changing campus locations either within Britain or Ireland (i.e. fall semester in London and spring semester in Ireland) or you may change continents all together, (i.e. fall in London and spring in South Africa). If you are interested in the dual campus option, you may indicate this on the interstudy application.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> </li> </ul> </div> 2009-01-22T23:47:12Z 7 interstudy Package 4 2009-11-13T17:03:59Z 1