Program Affiliations

Affiliated programs are delivered by individual US colleges/universities, academic consortia, or third party program providers with accreditation through a US college or university ‘school of record'. Additionally, there are some universities abroad where we have direct relationships. The Forum on Education Abroad's Standards of Good Practice and Code of Ethics are two main benchmarks we use for affiliation. Although we do not normally support participation in programs that are on the US Department of State Travel Warning list, in some circumstances students are permitted to petition.

Our principle affiliations include, but are not limited to:

Alliances for Expanded Study in Overseas Programs (AESOP): a cooperative program designed to allow UIC students to participate in study abroad programs sponsored by other CIC institutions.

Alliance for Global Education: a non-profit partnership of the Arcadia University Center for Education Abroad and the Institute for Study Abroad, Butler University.

Center for Global Education (Augsburg College): for over twenty-five years CGE has offered study abroad programs around the themes of social justice and environment.

Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE): an academic consortium of over 150 US public and private colleges and universities administering 95 study abroad programs in over 33 host countries.

Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS): a non-profit educational foundation partnering with over 160 US colleges and universities, and affiliated with the University of Copenhagen.

Institute for American Universities (IAU): Founded in 1957 under the auspices of l'Université d'Aix-Marseille, chartered by the Regents of the University of the State of New York, IAU operates three program centers in France.

Institute for the International Education of Students (IES): an academic consortium of more than 155 leading public and private U.S. colleges and universities with nearly 30 study abroad program centers in 16 countries.

Institute for Study Abroad, Butler University (IFSA-Butler): a nonprofit organization founded at Butler University in 1988 that enrolls students directly into universities abroad and provides all on-site student affairs administration.

Knowledge Exchange Institute (KEI): an independent third party program provider focusing on direct enrollment of students into universities abroad through discipline-specific studies.

Lorenzo de' Medici (LdM): an independent academic institution based in Italy which for over thirty years has been offering programs primarily in Archeology, Studio Arts, Performing Arts, but also a range of humanities and social science disciplines to US study abroad students at three sites.

School for Field Studies (SFS): an international non-profit academic institution which provides opportunities for environmental research in partnership with natural resource dependent communities through its field-based programs at its research centers in five countries.

School for International Training Study Abroad (SIT): the pioneer in field-based programs for undergraduate students, particularly in non-traditional destinations. More than 80 semester and summer programs on six continents offer a unique program model focusing on undergraduate research.

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