Why do it
A domestic alternative to studying abroad: experience a different region, a bigger research university, a coastal or urban campus, or a specific program Porter doesn't offer — without a passport or the cost of international travel. Popular for marine science, film, a language immersion, or just a change of scene.
Planning it
Apply through the exchange coordinator a term or two ahead; placement isn't guaranteed at your first-choice campus. Get course approvals from your Porter departments before you go, confirm housing at the host, and check that the term calendars line up. You stay a Porter student the whole time and graduate from Porter.
In and around Porter Falls
For a campus this size Porter both sends and receives a steady stream of students internationally. The Global Education Office in Founders Union runs the advising, the risk review and the arrival and re-entry programming.
The practical details
What it is: A consortium of campuses across the U.S., Canada, and territories; you attend one as a visiting student for up to a year. Cost: Pay Porter tuition (or the host's resident rate, whichever the placement specifies); financial aid travels. Credit: Comes back as transfer credit; arrange in advance how each course maps to a Porter requirement. Anything time-sensitive — an accommodation, a booking, a deadline — is worth confirming directly before you rely on it, because the specifics here can change from term to term.
If you have a question
The office behind this is Global Education Office (Founders Union, Room 240). Call (715) 555–0220 or email global@uwporterfalls.edu during the fall and spring terms, or sign in to MyPorter to send a message or book a time. If it turns out another office owns the question, they will route it rather than send you back to the start.
Fictional information
UW–Porter Falls is a work of parody. Every office, person, building, phone number and statistic on this page is invented; nothing here describes a real institution or a service you can actually contact.