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Study Abroad at the University of Manchester STUDY ABROAD AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER 2 01 5/ 20 16 MANCHESTER THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER 5 STUDY ABROAD PROGRAMME AT MANCHESTER 6 SUPPORT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER 8 INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMMES OFFICE 9 MANCHESTER - CULTURAL CAPITAL OF THE NORTH 10 MAP 11 CONTENTS COURSE UNITS INTRODUCTION 14 ARCHAEOLOGY 15 ART HISTORY AND VISUAL STUDIES 15 BUSINESS 15 CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 15 CHEMISTRY 15 CLASSICS AND ANCIENT HISTORY 16 COMPUTER SCIENCE 16 DRAMA 16 EARTH, ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 16 ENGLISH LITERATURE, AMERICAN STUDIES AND CREATIVE WRITING 17 ENVIRONMENT, EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT 17 HISTORY 18 HISTORY OF SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND MEDICINE 18 LANGUAGES AND CULTURAL STUDIES 19 LAW 19 LIFE SCIENCES 20 MATERIALS 20 MATHEMATICS 21 MECHANICAL, AEROSPACE AND CIVIL ENGINEERING 21 MUSIC 21 PHYSICS AND ASTRONOMY 22 PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCES 22 RELIGIONS AND THEOLOGY 23 SOCIAL SCIENCES 23 SPECIALIST PATHWAYS 24 SUMMER PROGRAMMES 26 IMPORTANT INFORMATION “Perfect! Highly committed staff, a large variety of courses, thrilling city. ENTRY REQUIREMENTS 27 I would have liked to stay longer and I'm going to recommend The HOW TO APPLY 28 University of Manchester to everybody who wants to do an exchange CHOOSING YOUR COURSE UNITS 29 or has the possibility to study abroad for his/her whole degree.“ FEES AND COST OF LIVING 31 Anna Wrzal, SEMESTER DATES 31 University of Freiburg, Germany 2 3 “Studying at The University of Manchester was the best decision I have made. I grew so much personally and academically. I feel that I had such a good experience because of the diversity of the student body and professors.” Emily Biffen, King’s College, USA WELCOME TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER The University of Manchester is one of the top universities in Europe and indeed the world, internationally recognised for both its teaching quality and research excellence. We have teaching and research in more subjects than any other single-site British university, and due to our academic structure we are able to offer a very wide range of course units to students who choose to study abroad here. The University of Manchester is one of Britain’s most famous As a student here you will be well catered for – and you can civic universities with a rich heritage of cutting-edge innovation be certain that you will be studying at a university with a long and enterprise stretching back more than 180 years. Many and distinguished record of academic achievement. 25 of our of the major advances of the 20th century began at the current and former staff and students have gone on to University, including work by Rutherford leading to the splitting become Nobel Prizewinners – including Professors Sir Andre of the atom, and the development of the world’s first modern Geim and Sir Konstantin (Kostya) Novoselov, creators of computer in 1948. The University – like Manchester itself – is Graphene – and our graduates include: novelist Anthony a truly cosmopolitan community which last year welcomed Burgess, philosopher Wittgenstein, flight pioneer Arthur students from almost 180 different nations. The vibrant Whitten-Brown, and women’s rights campaigner Christabel campus and energy of the surrounding city creates Pankhurst. As a student at The University of Manchester you an environment that provides an exciting place to live, can have the confidence of belonging to an academic study and explore. community of distinction, with over 39,000 students drawn from across the world, and more than 5,500 academic and research staff, including many with international reputations in their subjects. 4 5 NON-EU EXCHANGE PARTNERS EUROPEAN EXCHANGES (ERASMUS+) ARGENTINA JAPAN (continued) We also have departmental exchange Universidad Del Salvador Kansai Gaidai University (Humanities) partnerships with many European Kansai University (Humanities) universities under the Erasmus+ scheme. Keio University (Humanities) AUSTRALIA Please see our website for further Kobe University (Humanities) Australian National University information on current partners and Kwansei Gakuin University (Humanities) subject areas covered by the exchanges: The University of Melbourne Kyoto University The University of Queensland www.manchester.ac.uk/study/international/ Meiji Gakuin University (Humanities) study-abroad-programmes/erasmus The University of Sydney Meiji University (Humanities) The University of Western Australia, Perth Nagoya University (Life Sciences) Nanzan University (Humanities) Please note that the Manchester Business School Ochanomizu University (Humanities) BRAZIL have separate exchanges – please see Oita University (Humanities) Universidad de Sao Paulo www.mbs.ac.uk/programmes/ Osaka University (Humanities) undergraduate/international-exchange Rikkyo University (Humanities) for details. CANADA Ritsumeikan University (Humanities) McGill University Saitama University (Humanities) Queen’s University Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Humanities) University of British Columbia University of Tokyo (Humanities) University of Calgary University of Tsukuba (Life Sciences) University of Toronto Waseda University (Humanities) Université de Sherbrooke (Humanities) Yamagata University (Humanities) CHILE MEXICO Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile Universidad de las Americas, Puebla CHINA NEW ZEALAND Beijing Normal University (Humanities) University of Auckland East China Normal University (Humanities) Fudan University (Humanities) SINGAPORE Nanjing University (Humanities) Nanyang Technological University Renmin University (Humanities) National University of Singapore Shandong University (Humanities) Singapore Management University (Law) STUDY ABROAD AT Sun Yat-Sen University (Humanities) SOUTH KOREA Tsinghua University Ewha Womans University Zhejiang University (Humanities) THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER Seoul National University TAIWAN CUBA National Taiwan University (Humanities) Universidad de la Habana If you are currently enrolled as a degree-seeking student at any accredited university or college URUGUAY HONG KONG Universidad ORT Uruguay of higher education outside of the United Kingdom, you can apply to spend a semester or full Chinese University of Hong Kong (Humanities) year here at The University of Manchester, usually earning credit towards the degree you will Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Textiles) UNITED STATES OF AMERICA receive from your home university. Students find that spending a period of study at one of the University of Hong Kong Arizona State University world’s best universities is not only a great experience in itself, but also enhances their Case Western Reserve University academic insights, employability and life skills. ISRAEL North Carolina State University Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Humanities) Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey SUNY – Stony Brook (Life Sciences) University of California JAPAN University of Illinois - Urbana–Champaign You can choose from a wide range of subjects to construct your Exchange students Chuo University (Humanities) University of Maryland - College Park academic Study Abroad Programme, and, subject to meeting The University of Manchester has exchange partners around the Dokkyo University (Humanities) University of Massachusetts - Amherst pre-requisites (or the terms of the exchange agreement), you are Fukuoka Women’s University (Humanities) University of Missouri - Columbia world. These partnerships enable eligible students based at these not restricted to studying within one discipline area. We also offer a Hiroshima University (Humanities) University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill partner universities to spend either a year or semester with us, number of specialist Pathways, which enable Exchange and Study Hitotsubashi University (Humanities) University of Tennessee - Knoxville usually without independently paying any tuition fees to Abroad fee-paying students to focus on areas such as Pre-Law, Hokkaido University (Humanities) Wellesley College The University of Manchester. Sustainability, Leadership and Service, and English Language. Details of these Pathways can be found on pages 24-25. To be eligible to join us as an Exchange student, your home university must nominate you. Some of our exchange agreements You can apply to join our Study Abroad Programme as either an allow students from any discipline to join us, whilst others are only Exchange student or a Study Abroad fee-paying student. open to students from specific disciplines. Study Abroad fee-paying students We welcome students from exchange partners all over the I’m a student with a disability, so I was worried about what kind of If you are currently studying at a university outside the UK world – both under the Erasmus+ Programme (EU exchanges) with whom Manchester does not have a reciprocal exchange and our Worldwide (non-EU) Exchange Programme. support would be available in another country. I was really impressed with agreement, you can apply to join our Study Abroad Programme for a single semester or full academic year as a Study Abroad ‘Exchange Extra’ the excellent support I received. It made me feel much more confident. I fee-paying student. If you study at an exchange partner university, but are not eligible to join us as an Exchange student (for example, because there are would highly recommend studying at The University of Manchester to any You can apply to join us directly, using our online application insufficient places in a particular year, or because your discipline area process; via the College of Global Studies at Arcadia University student
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