In this exchange program, you will enroll directly in classes at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, the 5th oldest university in the English speaking world. Scholars associated with the university include five Nobel Prize winners, and the inventor of the modern MRI machine. Aberdeen is recognized for studies in medicine, psychology, nutrition, and Scottish studies. Aberdeen is an excellent setting for student life and a good starting point for travel by air, train, and sea.
The campus is home to world-class teaching and research facilities, as well as sporting and recreational amenities, all in close proximity. Aberdeen provides a range of support services for exchange students, including a comprehensive orientation session at the beginning of each semester. Aberdeen will assign you to an academic advisor.
You may join sports clubs covering indoor and outdoor sports such as volleyball, basketball, soccer, rugby, lacrosse, snow sports, sailing, hillwalking and climbing. The International Centre is a focal point for international students. It serves as a drop-in center, helping you make the best use of your time at the university. The International Centre organizes events for international students all year round. With a number of art galleries and historic theatres, to museums and libraries, Aberdeen is steeped in culture.
The Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre holds more than events annually, consistently attracting world-famous bands, singers and comedians. The area around Aberdeen offers a great selection of outdoor pursuits including surfing and kite boarding at the beach, as well as hillwalking, skiing, snowboarding and equestrian pursuits. All program details outlined on this page, including program cost, are subject to change if global or location-specific conditions require modifications to program structure.
You will have the opportunity to take courses across disciplinary lines. The system of higher education in the UK stresses in-depth study of a few subjects and provides a level of specialization that is not generally part of the American undergraduate experience.
Learning in this system requires self-motivation, with instructors serving more as guides than as teachers, in the traditional sense.
You may enroll for courses offered at Levels 2 and 3 and, exceptionally, Level 4. Courses in medicine and level 5 courses are not open to exchange students. Pre-law program - The pre-law study abroad program, specifically for US students studying majors such as Politics, Philosophy, History and Business, is a great way to enhance your Law School resume by gaining necessary analytical and argumentation skills, while studying alongside undergraduate law students.
Consult our list of partner universities , making sure they teach appropriate courses for your degree programme at the right level, and determine where you want to go. You should also check with the Go Abroad Tutor s for your degree programme if there are any departmental restrictions about when you can go abroad eg. The Go Abroad Tutor is your point of contact for all academic matters relating to studying abroad. Every subject has a dedicated Go Abroad Tutor for exchange and for some subjects there are multiple Go Abroad Tutors, who you speak to will depend on the exchange programme you apply for.
If you are studying on a joint degree you will have two Go Abroad Tutors, one for each subject. Find a list of our Go Abroad Tutors here. As part of the online application you will need to upload two documents:. You will need to complete the Exchange Study Plan with your provisional course choices for your preferred partner universities, and your reasons for choosing these partner universities.
You must ensure that your preferred partner universities teach suitable equivalents for any compulsory courses you would need to take if you were in Aberdeen. You can find out what your compulsory courses are using the Degree Calendar for your programme. If you have no mandatory courses in Aberdeen for the semester or year that you plan to study abroad: eg Languages students doing their residence abroad, or students on one of the 5-year LLB options; then you can freely select any courses that are relevant to your programme.
For your exchange study plan, it is mostly important that you match your compulsory courses. However, when abroad you will be expected to take the equivalent of 60 Aberdeen credits per semester.
If your application to study abroad is successful, you will finalise your course choice with approval from your Go Abroad Tutor s prior to going abroad. We are most interested in why you would like to study at your chosen institutions in particular, rather than your general motivations to go abroad. We want to hear your academic motivations, not holiday aspirations.
Where these are restricted to one or two subjects, or we know these destinations to be unsuitable for certain degree programmes, we have noted this, though this list is not exhaustive.
Click here to find out more. Click here for more information. Click here for information. Any student who is not on one of our Spanish Degree programmes, or isn't taking our Spanish language courses, can only go abroad here if they sit and pass a DELE exam at B2 level, or if the Spanish Department are prepared to sign off that your Spanish is at that level in an official form.
Students are not expected to have this at the time of application, but will need to have it prior to receiving an unconditional offer to go abroad. Suitable for most degrees, excluding Engineering and Psychology. Suitable for limited degrees. Who would this option suit? International Exchange is only possible as an undergraduate student at Level 2 and Level 3.
Please note that some subjects do not permit Level 3 exchange, or will only allow students to study abroad for a single semester.
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