exchange student

American  

noun

exchange students plural

1. a secondary-school or college student who studies for a period, usually one year, at a foreign institution as part of a reciprocal program between two institutions or countries.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• exchange students
  plural

Example Sentences

Mary Millben first traveled to China in 2006 as an exchange student from the University of Oklahoma.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

Two months before Mabel's murder, Hardman had begged a German exchange student to bite his neck in the belief she was a vampire and could transform him.

From BBC • Feb. 25, 2026

Knox, the American former exchange student who became the focus of a sensationalized Italian murder case, has long been vocal about the ethics of using true-crime stories as source material in entertainment.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2024

Consider what happened to Daniela Shields, whose daughter Alli was an exchange student in Hong Kong in 2019.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 9, 2023

Hassan said, “I'm a Kuwaiti exchange student; my dad's an oil baron.”

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green