History Main / ForeignExchangeStudent

* In ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'', one of the social links that helps augment the player character's power is with French foreign exchange student Andre Laurent Jean Geraux ("Zey just call me Bebe!").
* ''VideoGame/RivalSchools'' has the Americans Roy Bromwell, Tiffany Lords, and Boman Delgado posing as a team of American exchange students, while investigating the attacks on each of the schools. Tiffany even gains an expy, in the form ''Manga/MidoriDays''' Lucy Winrad.
* Sakuya le Bel Shirogane of ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'' arrives both French and wealthy. In the manga when asked to introduce himself he huffs that he has no name to give to fools, which backfires instantly as the teacher calls him Name To Give To Fools.
* Natsai Onai from ''VideoGame/HogwartsLegacy'' is an African witch who transferred to the titular British WizardingSchool after her mother accepted a teaching position there.

* Season 12 of ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' introduces several junior pro hockey players from the US and other parts of Canada who live with host families and attend school on a similar basis to exchange students.

** Star is (after her parents provide a hefty bribe to the principal) accepted as a foreign exchange student in the series premier. She's [[HumanAliens a lot more foreign]] than the usual examples.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Witch}}'' involves a Swiss exchange student arriving at the school. Her [[SignificantGreenEyedRedhead looks]] make her an instant DudeMagnet from the moment she steps into the cafeteria. The main characters get jealous of her for her personality and behavior (being able to [[FashionDesigner make her own clothes]], her complaints that Taranee didn't read ''Literature/WarAndPeace'' in Russian, etc). [[spoiler:It turns out she's a {{Fauxreigner}} who buys her own clothes. She doesn't even know Russian.]]

* In ''Webcomic/DemonThesis'', the four main characters attend [=MacPhee=] University in Canada, which is noted to have a rather large number of transfer students attending from different countries. Sure enough two of the four main characters (and both of the female main characters, coincidentally) are exchange students. Val is from [[{{Eagleland}} America]], while Clady is Danish.

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* Both Natasha and her fellow spy Oleg Boynski are undercover as exchange student in ''WesternAnimation/PrincessNatasha''. Natasha comes across as fiarly normal, while Oleg falls into FunnyForeigner territory.

** Akaza Chacha is one of several foreign students enrolled at Tenbi Academy. But while her tanned complexion, green eyes, and [[DarkskinnedBlond white hair]], are a dead giveaway, her nationality is never specified.

* ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'' introduces four new characters in the 3rd season, each a champion from a different duel academy.

Unlike the NewTransferStudent, the Foreign Exchange Student is rarely the main character, but if they are, expect them to be a NaiveNewcomer. They will commonly be the {{Love Interest|s}} of at least one character (which might cause complications when they have to leave). Unless, of course, they're around to cause trouble...

See also NewTransferStudent. May overlap with FunnyForeigner or ForeignPeopleAreSexy depending on how this trope is played. If the exchange student is European, EuropeansAreKinky is often used, especially if she's female. In this case, their comparative sexual liberation will be PlayedForLaughs, with everyone else feeling uncomfortable. Contrast StrangerInAStrangeSchool, where the new kid is the only ''normal'' student.

* ''Series/TheOtherKingdom'': Played with for Astral, as she's simply posing as Devon's exchange student as a way to pass off as an "other" and (mostly) blend in.
** Played straight however, with Winston Althazar (who actually ironically winds up taking the place of) a British student who was supposed to be Devon's original exchange student only to wind up in the wrong location.

** Also from the third game is Juna Crawford, a citizen of [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesZeroNoKiseki Crossbell]] and one of Rean's homeroom students. However, she plays with this trope, due to Crossbell being absorbed into Erebonia at the end of the second game. While she was born a citizen of Crossbell, the annexation effectively makes her an Erebonian citizen.

The Foreign Exchange Student, officially there to experience the setting's culture, will often be beautiful (often subject to their home country's PhenotypeStereotype) and mysterious (due to their foreign background). Their home country varies, but it's often from the United States (if the setting is Eastern) or Asia (if the setting is Western). Exchange students from Europe also pop up every once in a while, mainly from the UK, Germany, France, Italy and even Russia.

Unlike the NewTransferStudent, the ForeignExchangeStudent is rarely the main character, but if they are, expect them to be a NaiveNewcomer. They will commonly be the {{Love Interest|s}} of at least one character (which might cause complications when they have to leave). Unless, of course, they're around to cause trouble...

See also NewTransferStudent. May overlap with FunnyForeigner or ForeignPeopleAreSexy depending on how this trope is played. If the exchange student is European, EuropeansAreKinky is often used, especially if she's female. In this case, their comparative sexual liberation will be PlayedForLaughs, with everyone else feeling uncomfortable.

->"Imports are ''nice''!"
-->--'''Monique''', ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''

* In ''Anime/HungryHeartWildStriker'', Jojyou Highschool has ''two'' of these: the Brazilian Rafael Rodrigo del Canto and the [[MixedAncestry half-Swede, half-Japanese]] Sakai Jefferson Kouji. Both of them make it into the soccer team and become friends with TheHero, Kyosuke Kanou.

Unlike the NewTransferStudent, the ForeignExchangeStudent is rarely the main character, but if they are, expect them to be a NaiveNewcomer. They will commonly be the LoveInterest of at least one character (which might cause complications when they have to leave). Unless, of course, they're around to cause trouble...

** Akaza Chacha is one of several foreign students enrolled at Tenbi Academy. But while her tanned complexion, green eyes, and [[DarkskinnedBlonde white hair]], are a dead giveaway, her nationality is never specified.

* ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' has Sonia Nevermind, the Super High School Level Princess (or just [[DubNameChange Ultimate Princess]]) from the fictitious [[Music/{{Nirvana}} Novoselic]]. While all students enrolled at Hope's Peak Academy are technically transfer students, Sonia stands out, since she is a talent who doesn't originate from Japan. The school's description explicitely mentions that it is Japan's pride and hope and all of its students are the hope of their nation. It essentially makes Sonia the hope of her homeland, fittingly since she is her country's princess.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' episode "Exchange" Ron is selected for a student exchange program to Japan, in the Yamanouchi School (that is secretly a ninja school), while a japanese student called Hirotaka go to Middleton High School (becoming an instant favorite among the female students included Kim and Monique).

* WordOfGod is that Starfire from ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' was designed to seem like one of these. She's an alien teenager who speaks in SpockSpeak due to her inexperience with the English language (combined with her royal upbringing). In the comics she could speak perfect English, though due to the popularity of her cartoon interpretation aspects of her have transferred to her comics incarnation too.