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The University of Oregon offers many exchange programs overseas. (see Overseas study program: http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~oshome/) An overseas study can bring many things to a student's academic career such as: travel experience, foreign language experience, credits, etc.
My own encounter with the study abroad program comes from the fact that I am going to Japan this summer. The process for going abroad is pretty straightforward. The first thing to do is express interest in going to a foreign country-- that done, the next thing to do is figure out if the land you want to study in speaks English or not. If the answer is no then you should look into taking anywhere from one to three years of a foreign language before you go abroad, depending on your program. My program required one year. Now that you have taken the language requirement or picked a country like England or Australia you should decide whether you want to go overseas for a summer, a term, a semester, a year, etc. If you want to go for more than a summer, you should probably talk to your advisor so that you can make sure you can graduate in the time you have allotted. However, I chose only to go for summer. So this leads us to the application process: go and pick up the application to the program you want to appl or download it from the address mentioned earlier. My application was to Senshu, it required two letters of recommendation, a couple cheesy essays and the usual litany of personal information.
After that is done you will be interviewed. Once you make it through that process they will either decide to accept your application or decline it-- some programs are competitive and come with tuition wavers, some like mine aren't too competitive and sadly don't come with a tuition waver.
Anyway after all that, you will have to fill out
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