Worth it if you have some savings

I really enjoyed living in Madrid, and CIEE was a means to get situated here easily (emphasis on easily - they were super helpful with the visa process, the foreigner's identity card process [TIE] and a lot more of the technical governmental things that are pretty confusing to handle on your own). They provide office hours so you can stop by the CIEE center to ask questions which is also really great. During orientation, they put us in a pretty solid hotel and provided us with informational tours and all of the information we needed.