Questions From Schools
The things committees actually ask, answered without the hedging.
Before you ask
If the answer you need is not here
Email us and we will answer in writing, including the parts that are inconvenient for us. A partnership that starts with an oversold answer tends not to reach a second cohort.
Academics & Approval
Credit is awarded by your institution, not by us. What we provide is the material your curriculum committee needs to grant it: documented in-country contact hours, a site-to-outcome map tying each visit to a stated learning objective, host credentials, and an assessment plan drafted with your faculty lead.
Your faculty do, in both of our program tracks. If you bring an existing course we build around outcomes you already have on the books. If we co-develop, our academic team drafts the site-to-outcome mapping and your faculty own the academic content, the assessment and the grade.
Twelve students is the point at which a dedicated faculty-led program prices sensibly. Below that we can place students on an existing departure or pair your cohort with a partner institution running a comparable term.
One faculty lead per cohort, plus Nkabom in-country staff assigned for the full duration. Staffing scales with cohort size and itinerary complexity -- larger groups and multi-region itineraries carry additional program staff rather than stretching the same team further.
We verify that every traveler carries qualifying coverage before departure rather than at the airport, and we supply certificate templates your office can standardise on. Institutional liability arrangements are set in the partnership agreement; our risk-management summary is written to be forwarded directly to your risk office.
Operations, Cost & Risk
Programs are quoted from a line-item budget rather than a bundled per-student figure, so you can see exactly what is being paid for. Terms are typically a deposit at contract, a milestone payment when recruitment closes, and the balance ahead of departure. Institutional invoicing and student-direct payment both work.
Two to four academic terms. The pacing is set by your curriculum committee calendar, the faculty familiarization trip, and giving families two semesters to plan around cost -- not by how quickly we can build the itinerary.
Cancellation terms are agreed in the partnership contract and tied to real supplier deadlines rather than arbitrary dates. Because we are the in-country operator, we hold most of those supplier relationships ourselves, which gives us more room to move deposits than a broker would have.
No. HBCUs are who we built the model for and where most of our work sits, but we partner with minority-serving institutions, predominantly white institutions with strong Africana studies programs, and community colleges. The question we ask is whether the program serves your students, not what category your institution falls into.
Still have a harder question
Bring your study-abroad office and your risk officer to the same call. We would rather have that conversation at the start than in the middle of a term.