Parents
Welcome to the Parents page for C-GEO at UT Austin. This section of our web site has been designed to help parents understand the step-by-step process of study abroad at the University of Texas. It is also includes useful information about the stages of adjustment which students encounter while abroad.
The University of Texas believes that each student is ultimately responsible for his or her experience abroad. This encompasses a wide range of responsibilities from personal safety, completing paperwork, to being a responsible representative of UT and the United States. C-GEO is here to guide your son or daughter through the process. Your support through out the entire process is extremely important as well. Your son or daughter is embarking on an incredible journey rich in personal, professional, and academic rewards that will last a lifetime.
Step-by-Step process to study abroad at UT
1. All students must attend an information session. Students will learn the about different program opportunities, credit, funding and the application process.
2. Students can research programs on the web with our searchable database and in the resource library in our office.
3. After researching programs students meet with a C-GEO advisor. Advisors will help students decide on a program, discuss the program in more depth, review funding and scholarships, discuss courses and credit, and start the student on the application process.
4. The application deadlines:
Summer or Fall: March 1
Spring: October 1
5. Applications are reviewed, and students are notified of their acceptance status via mail or e-mail around mid-April/ mid-November.
6. Once accepted, student must attend a country specific orientation and complete online modules.
7. While abroad students will remain in contact with C-GEO. Students will also have a contact at their study abroad program.
8. Upon return, students are expected to check in with C-GEO. Students credit will not be processed and grades will not be posted until the student completes all re-entry requirements.
- why study abroad?
- before they go
- health & safety
- money
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- parents
- non UT students
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"When we cross borders to learn from one another, we break down barriers. It is extremely important, at this moment in history, to listen to what other cultures tell us. The cross-cultural experience enriches individual lives, instills global competency, and strengthens the entire univeristy community"