Study Abroad Technology: Breaking Barriers

AbroadScout.com, a top-rated blog, hosts the only online directory with abroad programs, scholarships, ratings, and reviews, all in one place. Students find just the right programs in this directory, because the search features are phenomenal, and they don’t have to go somewhere else to read reviews. Students can search all kinds of abroad programs by key words, location, program type, term, GPA requirement, study-credit level, cost, and more.

In addition, universities (and other study abroad program sponsors) can create and customize their own directory of approved study abroad programs. This wonderful tool, developed by a study abroad director, helps students find just the right study abroad program, internship abroad, international dual degree, or other type of international experience that has been made available to them through their college or university. It helps small study abroad offices save time and run more efficiently, too.

Benefits for Colleges, Universities, and Study Abroad Offices

• Search abroad programs by keyword, key phrase, or multiple fields using Advanced Search.
• Find programs offered through your third-party provider partners or study abroad consortia, as the database locates key words in their listings.
• Market some of your study abroad programs locally and others nationally (or both), all from the same control panel.
• Maximize word of mouth marketing (the most powerful mechanism available) by displaying reviews where students search for programs.
• Attract college-bound students to your institution through high-rated study abroad programs, international dual degrees, and other global initiatives.
• Assure your international programs are visible and easy to find, by students and prospective students, as well as parents.
• Link every program in your customized directory to a page on your own website, so students never bypass your study abroad office, or its policies or procedures.
• Stay up to date with the latest programs and information offered by your third-party providers, direct-enroll partners, and/or other affiliates. When they update their program information on AbroadScout.com, it automatically changes in your directory…saving you and your staff valuable time and energy.

Examples

University of California Davis – Mostly summer opportunities, such as faculty-led programs

Eastern Illinois University – Faculty-led programs, Direct Enroll programs, Exchange programs, Consortia, Program Providers, and more.

Western Illinois University – Exchange programs, ISEP programs, affiliates, and much more.

Benefits for Study Abroad Program Providers and Consortia

By adding your programs (individually) to AbroadScout.com, keeping them up to date, and encouraging past participants to leave reviews, you gain immense visibility among students. Not only will you find your programs in the main Abroad Programs Directory, but you’ll also find your partner institutions (advisors and students) learning more about your programs through their own customized directories. If you’d like, you can create your own searchable directory, too (and later find it indexed in search engines).

Examples

Australearn (an educational program of Globalinks)

School for International Training (SIT)

ISEP

See more study abroad program directories with reviews and request yours free today! Login to your account, add your study abroad programs, select your affiliates and exchanges, and you’re done! If any of your partner programs or affiliates are not already in the Abroad Programs Directory, we’ll add them for you. Just let us know one way or another.