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Exchange Scholars
The Exchange Scholar Program enables a Ph.D. student enrolled in a doctoral program in one of the participating institutions to study at one of the other graduate schools for a limited period of time. The academic experience, including courses taken and/or research conducted with particular faculty at the visited institution, is registered on the academic record maintained by the student's home institution.
Participating Institutions and Programs
- All Ph.D. programs: University of California at Berkeley, Brown University, University of Chicago, Columbia University, Cornell University, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University
- All Ph.D. programs in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences: Harvard University
- Ph.D. programs in the School of Science only: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Ph.D. programs in the School of Humanities and Sciences: Stanford University
Terms and Conditions
The following are to be regarded as minimal terms and conditions of the program. Individual institutions may choose to establish more rigorous criteria, e.g., for eligibility or duration of study. Definitions (e.g., of "term," "academic year," and "hospitalization coverage") may also vary according to local policy and practice.
- Eligibility. Normally students will be eligible to be Exchange Scholars only after they have completed one full academic year in residence in a Ph.D. program at their home institution.
- Duration. A minimum of one term of study and maximum of one academic year will be permitted in the program. This program in not in operation during Summer Sessions.
- Registration Status. Exchange scholars will be registered by the home and host institutions in whatever category ("in absentia," "in residence," "special student," "Exchange Scholar") is appropriate at each place.
- Tuition and Financial Aid. Tuition will be charged and collected, and any financial aid will be provided, by the student's home institution.
- Health and Hospitalization Coverage. The institution which the student is visiting will be responsible for assuring that hospitalization and health services are locally available. However, the host institution may either charge the student for such services or require that the student purchase coverage from the home institution.
- Benefits. At the institution visited, Exchange Scholars will be accorded all the benefits of that institution's resident students. They will receive a student id card which permits access to the host institution's libraries, labs, health facilities, athletic facilities, housing (as available) and the like. Where these services entail fees in addition to tuition, the host institution will charge Exchange Scholars the same fees it charges its own graduate students.
- Foreign Students. Foreign students are understood to be under the continuing sponsorship of their home institution. Foreign students on F_1 visas should note that they are not allowed to work at the host institution.
- Records. Upon completion of each term, officials of the institution visited will collect the information concerning the Exchange Scholar's course of study and forward it with appropriate stamps or seals and signatures to the Graduate School Dean of the student's home institution. Normally this information will include the course record and any special research conducted under the auspices of a faculty member. The information will then be posted on the student's academic record or made part of the record as appropriate to the home institution.
- Notification. The home institution will be responsible for notifying third parties of the Exchange Scholar's status and activities.
Exchange Scholar Program Application Forms are available from the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education, 303 College Hall, 215-898-2061.
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