Define your goals:
What do I want to get from my education abroad experience?
- How long do I want to go abroad? A year? A semester? A summer? A winter?
- Do I want to study a language and if so, how proficient do I want to become?
- Have I truly considered all of the locations available to me?
- Do I need to fulfill major and/or core or gen ed requirements while abroad?
- What kind of housing am I interested in? Host family? Apartment? Residence hall?
- How will this experience fit into my life and career goals?
- Do I want to volunteer or do service learning abroad?
- What do I want my day-to-day life to be like while abroad?