What is the difference between a USAC Specialty and a USAC Partnership Program?
USAC offers two types of programs: Specialty and Partnership. Specialty programs are wholly designed and operated by USAC. Each Specialty program is located on a university campus and has a Resident Director (most of whom have a Ph.D.) who hires faculty, arranges housing, organizes field studies and excursions and assures the general well-being of students overseas. Partnership programs differ in that students are enrolled in that foreign university and generally have access to that university’s full curriculum and International Programs Office.
