What is Hosting?
Hosting for schools, colleges and universities is allowing an international exchange student to attend your high school, community college or university for a semester or academic year. This opportunity broadens the minds of students and faculty while sharing U.S. culture and customs with international students.
How to Host
- Review the State Department-sponsored programs with a hosting component.
- Choose a program from which you would like to sponsor a student or educator.
- Contact the grantee organization that administers the program.
High School Students
Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Program
YES participants are high school students, ages 15-17, from countries with significant Muslim populations. They spend up to an academic year living with U.S. host families, learning about American society, acquiring leadership skills, and educating Americans about their countries and cultures.
- Length: Long term / one year
- Contact: Apply to host a YES student through Yesprograms.org
American Serbia and Montenegro Youth Leadership Exchange (A-SMYLE)
A-SMYLE participants are high school students from Serbia and Montenegro who spend one academic year in the United States.
- Length: Long term / one academic year
- Contact: Apply to host an A-SMYLE student through:
Congress–Bundestag Youth Exchange Program (CYBX)
CBYX high school participants are German students with a 3.0 GPA, between the ages of 15-18 who spend an academic year in the United States.
- Length: Long term / one academic year
- Contact: Learn more about hosting a CYBX student by visiting the organizations below:
Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX)
In the FLEX program, high school students from Eurasia, ages 15-17, who attend a U.S. high school for an academic year.
- Length: Long term / one academic year
- Contact: Apply to host a FLEX student through:
- 4-H (Contact your local 4-H to find out if they participate.)
- AFS USA
- American Councils
- ASSE- International Student Exchange Programs
- Center for Cultural Interchange (CCI)
- Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE)
- Flags Around the Globe (FLAG)
- Program of Academic Exchange (PAX)
- World Link
German American Partnership Program
The German American Partnership Program supports partnerships and exchanges between high schools in the U.S. and schools in Germany.
- Length: Short term / three to four weeks
- Contact: Goethe Institute USA to be a participating host school
University Students
Community College Initiative Program
Participants spend one academic year in the United States and earn certificates in their fields of study. After completing the program, participants return home with new skills and expertise to help them contribute to the economic growth and development of their countries and societies.
- Length: Long term / one academic year
- Contact: Learn how to host a CCI student by contacting Community Colleges for International Development (CCID), the Community College Consortium (CCC), or the Northwest Community College Initiative consortium.
Congress–Bundestag Youth Exchange Program (CYBX)
The Young Professionals Component of CBYX is for students between 18–and-24-years-old, who wish to study for a semester and participate in internship programs.
- Length: Short term / one academic semester
- Contact: CDS International to learn how to host a CYBX student at your school.
Global Undergraduate Exchange Program (Global UGRAD Program)
Participants are outstanding undergraduate students from underrepresented sectors in East Asia, Eurasia and Central Asia, the Near East and South Asia and the Western Hemisphere who visit the United States for non-degree full-time study combined with community service, internships and cultural enrichment.
- Length: Long term / varies by region
- Contact: Visit the organizations below to host Global UGRAD participants.
- East Asia and the Pacific, and the Western Hemisphere, contact World Learning.
- Eurasia and Central Asia, contact IREX.
- Near East & South Asia, contact American Councils.
- Pakistan, contact IREX.
Educator Programs
Fulbright European Union Scholar-in-Residence Program
- Length: Long term / semester
- Contact: To host a European Scholar-in-Residence contact the Council for International Exchange of Scholars
Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) Program
- Length: Long term / nine months
- Contact: Apply to host an FLTA through the Institute of International Education
Fulbright Occasional Lecturer Fund
- Length: Short term / length varies
- Contact: Apply to host a lecuturer through the Council for International Exchange of Scholars
Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence(SIR) Program
- Length: Long term / semester or an academic year
- Contact: Apply to host a SIR through the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES)
Fulbright Visiting Scholar Program for Iraq
- Length: Short term / 10 weeks
- Contact: To host a visiting scholar contact Council for International Exchanges of Scholars (CIES)
Junior Faculty Development Program (JFDP)
- Length: Long term/ one semester
- Contact: To host a JFDP scholar at your university, contact American Councils.
- Length: Long term / two to three years
- Contact: Learn more about hosting a teacher through this program.