Greek in Greece welcomes students from other universities.
You have two participation options:
- 1) take a leave from your home institution and enroll for one quarter at OU. Then transfer your OU credit back to your home institution.
- 2) remain enrolled at your home institution and arrange to receive credit directly from them.
Option 1: Transfer to OU for a quarter
This option requires quite a bit of paperwork (a simplified OU application process, transfer of financial aid info to OU). OU will not give its own local scholarships to students who exercise this option, but if you have Federal grants and loans, they should work just as well here as at your home institution. Students who exercise this option will need to work out in advance with their university/department just how the OU credits will transfer back to their universities. In principle, this option can save you quite a bit of money–particularly if your net tuition costs (tuition + fees - scholarships from your university) are considerably higher than OU’s tuition.
Option 2: Remain registered at your own school, and receive credit through your home department.
Under this option, you will need to pay your share of the costs for the Greek in Greece program to Ohio University. You will also pay tuition to your home institution because they will give you credit directly–without any transfers: You will, as it were, be taking their courses. This option costs your university nothing, allows your department to receive credit for your instruction, and eliminates many bureaucratic tasks. In effect, the Greek in Greece faculty serve as unpaid adjuncts to your department. Your departmental faculty will, of course, need to approve your participation under this option. We will cooperate with your department in any reasonable way to allow you to participate in the Greek in Greece program.
For most students this option is more expensive. The reason is that if you register as an OU student, OU returns to the program the vast majority of your tuition and fees. I.e., your tuition payment covers at least $2500 of your program costs. If you don’t pay tuition, though, we have to make up for the lack of subsidy by increasing your program costs.
You may wonder why we are willing to teach you for free. We have both practical and idealistic reasons. As teachers and idealists, we are not inclined to begrudge an opportunity to any serious, hardworking student so long as we have we have a place available for him/her. As practical advocates for our own department’s students, we realize that by dividing the costs of faculty travel among 15 students rather than 10 or 12, we can save each OU student several hundred dollars. In addition, the presence of fine students from institutions around the country enhances the educational value of the trip for both students and faculty.
Priority for participation will, of course, be given to tuition-paying students over those who are not enrolled at Ohio U. At this point it appears that we have room for about 5 or 6 external students.
You can find a chart comparing costs for tuition-paying and non-tuition paying students by clicking on the “Costs” link.
