Become an Exchange Student with AFS!

AFS Returnees work in business, industry, entertainment, government, education, journalism, and even outer space. What do they have in common? Most say that the experience of studying abroad has changed their life!

We offer more than 140 foreign exchange programs in 40 countries, as well as scholarships, financial assistance, and the chance to host an outstanding student from another country. Here are some of our outstanding AFS Returnees:

• UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy on the Darfur’s crisis – Jan Eliasson, Sweden
• Ambassador and Permanent U.S. Representative to the United Nations – Zalmay Khalizad, U.S.
• Chief, Colombian Liberal Party (Partido Liberal Colombiano) – Cesar Gaviria, Colombia
• State Secretary of Foreign Affairs – Hans Dalgren, Sweden
• Chief of Protocol, Ministry of Foreign Affairs – Christopher Bo Bramsen, Denmark
• Under Secretary for Political Affairs U.S. Dept. of State – R. Nicholas Burns, U.S.
• Ambassador of Chile to Syria – Ricardo Fiegelist Schmidt, Chile
• Ambassador of Japan to Spain – Motohide Yoshikawa, Japan
• Minister of Government and Justice – Jorge Hernandez Alcerro, Honduras
• Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Helsinki, Finland – Hannu Himanen, Finland
• President & CEO of the American-Turkish Council – James Holmes, U.S.
• Ambassador-at-Large for the Co-ordination of the Spanish OSCE Chairmanship – Jose Angel Lopez Jorrin, Spain
• Dir. Gen., Org. of the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons – Rogelio Pfirter, Netherlands

More amazing AFSers…

• President, Columbia University – Lee Bollinger
• Host of “The American Family” on the Goodlife TV Network – Bettina Gregory
• Astronaut – Cady Coleman
• Tony Award-winning actor – Bill Irwin
• Editor-in-Chief, Allure – Linda Wells
• Vice President for Global Strategic Security at Booz Allen Hamilton – James Woolsey
• Chief Justice of Supreme Court, Massachusetts – Margaret Marshall
• Director at Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington – Helmut Panke