Consider the following reasons for joining the National Student Exchange:

Sharing Resources

In this amazing, fast-paced and quick-changing world, higher education is faced with the necessity of trying to provide for the diverse needs of our students. Sharing resources is becoming common place and will certainly increase in the future. Through NSE, students have access to the classes, professors, programs, laboratories, technologies, and environments far beyond the capability of any single campus. The combined resources of campuses across the United States are serving the needs of your students.

Relevant, Quality Education

We have increasingly become a consumer oriented society. Colleges and universities are being called on to be more relevant and to keep up-to-date with technology. How can we do it? A single campus can no longer meet the needs of all of its students. Through NSE, students can study for up to one year on a campus that most appropriately meets their needs.

Low Cost/High Satisfaction

There are few programs that have such low cost, but with such a high degree of student and parent satisfaction. In addition, it is a good recruiting tool, helpful in retention, enriching in academic program, and personally satisfying.

Access

If a campus thought of NSE as adding a large number of branch campuses for their students, it would be a fair picture of the usefulness of the program for a campus. An NSE member has access to international programs, honors programs, and thousands of courses, and other options. Some campuses are developing programmatic relationships with other campuses to take advantage of the program offerings available.

"With NSE I have at my finger tips one of the greatest guidance tools of all time. I can tailor-make a program to meet the needs of my students, providing courses and programs they could not possibly obtain at the home campus."

Robert Fast, NSE Coordinator
University of Maine at Farmington