One particular type of home exchange is a study exchange. Whether you’re taking time out from work to study, or you’re a full time student who’s looking to do a study abroad program, home exchange can definitely help you out!

All that you need is to have a residence where people can come and stay in. You don’t have to be a home or a mortgage owner - if you are renting you are eligible to do home exchanges.

To help find like minded people, you can post a message in our forum entitled; “Study exchanges.” Equally, if this is something that interests you, you may want to consider doing a non-simultaneous exchange. This is where you vacate your home whilst the other family comes to stay, and they do the same for you, so that you are able to accommodate your own study and course time tables.

Alternatively, you could do a “hosting” exchange. This is when you have the family or people (or person!) come to stay whilst you are still in your home, and in return they put you up when you go over to do your study.

Home exchange is flexible, and there are a variety of ways of managing timing for study programmes and learning abroad.