Stacie Berdan, co-author of IIE’s bestselling A Parent Guide to Study Abroad, offers tips and shares resources for making study abroad affordable for more students. These include suggestions on where to study, where to find funding, and which insurance, phone, and banking services to use. She also reminds parents to consider the overall return on investment study abroad provides students in today’s global economy. — TIME

A Parent Guide to Study Abroad, now available in Spanish, contains critical information parents need to inform themselves and to support their high school or college student as he or she navigates the study abroad experience. Print copies are available for $4.95, with a steep discount for bulk copies for schools to give out to parents: 20 copies for $20.00.