Plan for every stage 

Use these guides to plan your academics, prepare for your experience, consider how your identities may shape your time away, and navigate your return to Skidmore.


Academic planning

Understand how off-campus credit works, plan courses with your academic advisor, and use the Course Equivalency Matrix to stay on track for graduation.

Review academic planning

Financial planning

Understand billing, what Skidmore covers, your expected expenses, financial aid, deposits, and scholarship options for off-campus study.

Review costs and financial planning

Approved to study off campus?

Review your required next steps, including applying directly to your program, completing forms in MyOCSE, confirming your participation, and preparing to depart.

Review approved student next steps

Health and safety 

Prepare for your time away with guidance on healthcare, medications, insurance, emergencies, and staying informed while off campus.

Review health and safety resources

Diversity and identity resources

Consider how your identities, local cultures, and laws may shape your experience. Find questions to research and Skidmore resources that can help you prepare.

Explore diversity and identity resources

Coming back to Skidmore

Prepare for your return, navigate the adjustment to campus, stay connected to your experience, and find ways to share what you learned.

Explore return resources

Faculty resources

Support students throughout the off-campus study process with advising resources, faculty opportunities, course planning tools, and answers to common questions.

Explore faculty resources

Contact Off-Campus Study & Exchanges

Office

Starbuck Center, 202
Phone: 518-580-5355
After-hour emergencies: 518-580-5566
Fax: 518-580-8067 
Email: ocse@skidmore.edu

Hours

Monday–Friday
8:30 a.m.–Noon 
1–4:30 p.m.