Don’t just study abroad once, do it multiple times

Multi-country pathways are becoming increasingly popular, with students able to get the benefit of multinational study across some widely different cultures.

The World Bachelor of Business programme run by Bocconi, HKUST and the University of Southern California is very well established, and Minerva at KGI – where students move en masse to a new location every six months – is successfully disrupting the traditional university model. There’s also ESCP Europe and SP Jain School of Global Management, who do this in Europe and Asia respectively, and options to create your own programmes with Webster University and Long Island University, both of which have multiple campuses around the world.

Beyond this, here are some of my favourites:

• Sciences Po in France offer a wide range of joint degrees, with options to add time in France to studies in the UK, USA or Australia: http://www.sciencespo.fr/college/en/academics/dual-degrees

• Trinity College Dublin and Columbia are now in year 2 of this programme: https://gs.columbia.edu/tcd/dual-ba-program

• Columbia also has a dual engineering degree with Ecole Polytechnique https://programmes.polytechnique.edu/en/bachelors/about-the-bachelors/dual-degree-in-engineering

• Creighton University’s Global Scholars Program allows students to base themselves in the US at Creighton’s campus in Nebraska and then also study in Australia, the Dominican Republic and two other locations.

• Brock University in Canada have the option for business students to combine their degree with options in Ireland, Germany or France.

• Many US universities make use of their international branch campuses, allowing students to spend their first year outside the US before completing the degree back in the US at the main campus:

  • https://www.luc.edu/internationaladmission/romestart/

  • http://www.bard.edu/begininberlin/

  • https://www.nyu.edu/academics/studying-abroad/freshmen-abroad-programs/liberal-studies-freshmen-programs.html

  • https://www.syracuse.edu/academics/study-abroad/first-semester-programs/

  • https://www.marist.edu/admission/undergraduate/freshman-abroad/dublin-experience

• Northeastern University are well-known for their NUin programme, with over a thousand of their incoming students starting off with a semester abroad as their intro to Northeastern https://www.northeastern.edu/nuin/destinations/

• France’s CentraleSupélec and McGill University in Canada have a joint 2+2 engineering degree: https://www.centralesupelec.fr/en/bachelor-global-engineering?tab=bachelor-of-global-engineering-about

• Radboud offer a range of degrees in English, with this multi-country option: https://www.ru.nl/english/education/bachelors/economics-and-business-economics/international-bachelor-economics-and-management/

• St John’s University in New York launched a joint law pathway with Goldsmiths University in the UK: https://www.stjohns.edu/academics/programs/legal-studies-associate-science-bachelor-laws
• IQS in Barcelona (part of Ramon Llull University) have a business course with options to study in France and the UK: https://www.iqs.edu/en/undergraduate/iqs-school-management/undergraduate-programme-international-business

• The College of William & Mary in Virginia and St Andrew’s University in Scotland have great success with this programme, a 2+2 pathway: https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/subjects/study-options/ug/degree-routes/william-mary-joint/

• Utrecht University has the option to also study in Rome, with LUISS: https://www.uu.nl/bachelors/en/international-business-economics-joint-programme-rome

• On UCAS, Lancaster allow you to apply to study this degree, in partnership with Northeastern: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/international-business-management-america-bba-hons-n202/.

• Sheffield Hallam also offer an option with studies across Europe.

• Rollins College in Florida and Reutlingen University in Germany offer this programme: https://www.rollins.edu/international-programs/semester-programs/germany-dual-degree.html

• Loyola in Chicago have partnered with their namesake in Andalusia to offer this 2+2 degree: https://www.luc.edu/quinlan/undergraduate/bbauseuropedoubledegree/

• Combination of Law at the University of Sussex (UK) and BA Arts at Wilfrid Laurier (Canada): https://wlu.ca/programs/interdisciplinary/law-degree-uk-and-ba-laurier/index.html

• Start in Japan and finish in either the USA or Austria, with this option at APU: http://en.apu.ac.jp/academic/page/content0298.html/?c=17

• Global BA in International and Political Communication from Emerson College in Boston, USA: https://www.emerson.edu/academics/global-partnerships/franklin-university-switzerland/global-ba-international-and-political-communication

• A range of options at Japanese universities:
  • https://www.nucba.ac.jp/en/international/double_degree.html
  • http://en.apu.ac.jp/academic/page/content0298.html/?c=17
  • https://www.econ.keio.ac.jp/en/undergraduate/abroad

This is just a small sample of what is available, but with such innovation out there there’s certainly something for everyone!