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Study Abroad in China: Program Fees

AIFS All-Inclusive Program Fee: $5,495

Fee Includes:
  • Tuition — up to 6 semester credits (subject to course selection)
  • Accommodation in student residences and tourist-class hotels (2 or 3 star)
  • Meals — daily breakfast plus additional meals as specified in the itinerary
  • Cultural activities such as city tours of Beijing and Shanghai, visits to Summer Palace, Hangzhou and the Oriental Pearl T.V. Tower
  • Excursions to Great Wall of China, Xian and Suzhou
  • Internal flight between Beijing and Nanjing
  • Comprehensive insurance and assistance package
  • Accompanying faculty, adjunct professors and lecturers
  • Services of a pre-departure Student Advisory Center and an on-site Resident Director
  • Pre-departure handbook

Please note fee does not include the non-refundable $95 application fee and $250 refundable damage deposit. Students choosing this standard option are responsible for making their way to Beijing and from Shanghai by the scheduled program dates.

AIFS Program with Optional Round-Trip Flights and Airport Transfers

For your convenience, AIFS will arrange your round-trip airfare (including all fuel surcharges, taxes and fees), meet you at the arrival airport(s) and provide transportation to and from the program site on scheduled arrival and departure dates. Prices for this option include:

  • All-inclusive program as specified above, plus
  • Flights
    • U.S. to Beijing
    • Shanghai to U.S.
  • Airport transfers
    • Beijing to campus
    • Campus to Shanghai

The prices with airfare listed below are subject to change. The flight and transfer portion of the fee will be confirmed at time of invoicing. (Program fee as listed above is guaranteed.)

Lowest program fee including transcontinental flight: $6,695 (from Los Angeles)

Summer study abroad program
With airfare from:
Atlanta $ 6,835
Boston $ 6,795
Buffalo $ 6,775
Chicago $ 6,855
Cincinnati $ 6,855
Dallas $ 6,815
Denver $ 6,855
Des Moines $ 6,855
Detroit $ 6,875
Houston $ 6,815
Los Angeles $ 6,695
Miami $ 6,815
  
Minneapolis $ 6,875
New York/Newark $ 6,775
Orlando $ 6,815
Philadelphia $ 6,855
Phoenix $ 6,855
Pittsburgh $ 6,855
Raleigh/Durham$ 6,835
San Francisco $ 6,715
Seattle $ 6,735
St. Louis $ 6,855
Washington/Dulles $ 6,855