Do you mean a university-exchange (study at another university somewhere else in the world) or an international work placement?

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bump i want to know about this too!

Yeah, well I know you can do an exchange in HBA2.. I'm just wondering if you can do it before you actually START Ivey... As in you're AEO or even any other Western student.

Hi Harris,

I have a friend that's in Ivey and he's in 4th year (or HBA2). He went on exchange but he could only go in the last semester. He went to Spain (can't remember which university) and would only be coming back early summer, and he's actually skipping his convocation because his term does not end in time (European schools end later). He also told me that he wasnt able to take a couple of courses he wanted (and I wont be surprised because your program is already a short 2-year program), but he still enjoys it as a whole. I dont know if you can go on exchange before you start Ivey (I think you can because at Queens you can go abroad in yr 1 in arts/sci), but if you do it'd prolly not be a business school exchange.

In terms of quality etc going on exchange vs. paying staying in Canada and paying Ivey, there are some validity in thinking about this. I am an international student at Queen's and I had the option to go on exchange. However, I decided not to because:

1. I am already an international student - kind of "on exchange" already!
2. If I was to apply and go to the exchange schools directly, I'd pay less than what I'd pay for Queen's. I'm sure that this applies more to Ivey... I remember that if I'd go to Beijing for university by myself I'd only pay in the region of CDN$3,000 - which is definitely far different from the current tuition.
3. Most Queen's people who go on exchange find classes easy abroad, and most exchange students coming into Queen's find it very hard (these are students from top schools around the world). Unless you've never had international experience before, going on exchange doesn't provide additional 'academic' value in a strict sense - as the quality of classes are already very high here in Canada.
4. If you decide to stay in the country instead of going on exchange, you don't lose out. In all 3rd and 4th year classes at Queen's, a fairly good sized proportion are international exchange student - and it does make the class super interesting.
5. However, people love it - and people do go on exchange, and I'd highly recommend people go. And you may know this, Queen's runs a really top-notch exchange program in Canada and you do get tons of bursaries and support to go abroad (bursaries to pay for your flights, accomodations, etc). And people have a LOT of fun backpacking, travelling, etc - and meeting other students in neighbouring countries and going off to places. So if you decide to come to Queen's - you'll be able to do a lot if u decide to go on exchange.

Hope that helps.

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Commerce '08
Queen's School of Business
Email: eddie.ho@business.queensu.ca

I went to Western a few weeks ago to take a tour, and I had a meeting with one of the admission officers of Ivey HBA.
I'm also really interested in going on exchange during university, especially because I'd like to possibly work in Asia.
Anyway, the person told me that the most common exchange opportunity for ivey is during your HBA2, last semester, and that most people don't take this opportunity because they've worked so hard to get the whole ivey experience. So I asked if there were any exchange opportunities while you are an AEO student, and basically, she said that would have to be sponsored by UWO, and not Ivey.
A lot of the benefits we get from Ivey ( job positings, exchanges and such) are really only available once we actually get into the Ivey program (3rd year). This is due to the fact that students in Ivey actually pay the expensive tuition for the program, and that aeo students are still just Western students.
Hope that helped!