Host an Exchange Student

Experience international culture without leaving home by hosting an NWSE foreign exchange student! The world comes to you! Host an exchange student for rewarding opportunities to share your culture, and to get to know a student from another country.
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Become an Exchange Student

NorthWest Student Exchange organizes affordable and relevant cultural exchanges for great students like you! Participate in an NWSE program, and take a major step toward realizing your international goals.
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Become an Area Coordinator

NorthWest Student Exchange seeks Area Coordinators (ACs) nationwide to join our team to place and supervise foreign exchange students in the USA. Make a positive difference in your community and in the life of an exchange student.
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Featured Video

Former NWSE student Olivia from Denmark created this wonderful video about her student exchange experience.

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Host an Exchange Student or Nominate a Host Family!

Host an exchange student and the world comes to you! Hosting an international student is a wonderful opportunity to share your culture with a student from another country, and to experience international culture without leaving home.

For more information with no obligations, register online, email host@nwse.com, or simply call us toll free at (877) 850-3312. We look forward to hearing from you!

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Exchange Award to Germany

NorthWest Student Exchange offers three Student Exchange Awards to qualified U.S. high school students of German. Award winners will travel to Germany for a semester or school year to be immersed in German language, life, and culture.

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“[NWSE’s] choices of school, the host family, and the coordinator were great! My exchange experience supported by NWSE was valuable and memorable. I would like to recommend NWSE as an…

Namiki from Japan

“This completes my third year hosting as a double placement, and I would not even consider a placement through any other agency. The three of us got along delightfully and…

Lane from Washington, USA

“At first when I was thinking of the exchange, could I do it or not… I was afraid… but then I came here and it has been so, so good. I am…

Leonie from France

“This was our first experience. Everything went very smoothly for us. My husband, who was pretty nervous about the whole idea [of hosting], loved the experience. He texted me the…

Laurie and Glenn from Montana, USA
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Contact NWSE Today!

NorthWest Student Exchange offers a variety of international high school student exchange programs for both international and American exchange students: academic-year, reciprocal, semester, partner school, and summer student exchange programs.

Please contact us with any questions. We look forward to hearing from you!

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