Exchange students study math at home and abroad

Friday, January 10, 2025

“I used to think Waterloo was boring, but maybe I was just boring,” laughs Kaitlyn Bowles, a mathematics and business administration student. “Doing an exchange taught me how to make whatever reality I was living in the one I wanted it to be.” 

Bowles is one of the thousands of students who have participated in Waterloo’s exchange program, which is based on reciprocal arrangements with more than 120 universities in 30 countries around the world. 

For every Waterloo student who spends a term at a foreign institution, a student from that institution spends the same term here.  Students pay tuition to their home university and transfer credits they earn back to their primary institution for equivalent classes.  

Read the full story from Waterloo News to learn more.