Study abroad destinations
At Manchester we have links with numerous partner universities around the world where you could study abroad for up to a year. These opportunities are subject to availability and may change from year to year.
European partners
Many of our academic Schools have subject-to-subject exchanges with European universities (for example the geography department in Manchester has a link with the geography department in the Universidad de Granada in Spain). These agreements are known as Erasmus+ exchange agreements.
Programmes in Europe are currently supported by the European Commission within the Erasmus+ Programme. For more information on the programme visit the Erasmus+ website.
Please note that the range of partnerships on offer and continued Erasmus+ support for programmes within Europe is subject to the outcome of Brexit negotiations.
- Download our list of undergraduate Erasmus+ partner universities (PDF document, 215KB)
Erasmus+ students do not pay any fees and may receive an Erasmus+ grant from their home university.
- Read the Erasmus Charter for Higher Education 2014-2020 (PDF document, 953KB)
Worldwide partners
We also have many partners outside of Europe. Most of these partnerships are not subject-specific and are open to students from almost all subject areas across our University.
Choose a country below to see which institutions have partnerships with us.
Canada
- Concordia University
- McGill University
- Queen's University
- Simon Fraser University
- University of British Columbia
- University of Calgary
- University of Guelph
- University of Ottawa
- Université de Sherbrooke (Faculty of Humanities)
- University of Toronto
- University of Toronto Mississauga
- University of Victoria
China
- Beijing Normal University (Faculty of Humanities)
- East China Normal University (Faculty of Humanities)
- Fudan University (Faculty of Humanities)
- Nanjing University (Faculty of Humanities)
- Tsinghua University
- Zhejiang University (Faculty of Humanities)
Cuba
Please note that this option is only open to students of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies.
Hong Kong
- Chinese University of Hong Kong (Faculty of Humanities)
- University of Hong Kong
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Textiles)
Israel
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Faculty of Humanities)
Japan
- Chuo University (Faculty of Humanities)
- Dokkyo University (Faculty of Humanities)
- Fukuoka Women's University (Faculty of Humanities)
- Hiroshima University (Faculty of Humanities)
- Hitotsubashi University (Faculty of Humanities)
- Hokkaido University (Faculty of Humanities)
- Kansai Gaidai University (Faculty of Humanities)
- Keio University (Faculty of Humanities)
- Kobe University (Faculty of Humanities)
- Kwansei Gakuin University (Faculty of Humanities)
- Kyoto University
- Kyushu University
- Meiji University (Faculty of Humanities)
- Meiji Gakuin University (Faculty of Humanities)
- Nagoya University (Faculty of Life Sciences)
- Nanzan University (Faculty of Humanities)
- Ochanomizu University (Faculty of Humanities)
- Oita University (Faculty of Humanities)
- Osaka University (Faculty of Humanities)
- Rikkyo University (Faculty of Humanities)
- Ritsumeikan University (Faculty of Humanities)
- Saitama University (Faculty of Humanities)
- University of Tokyo (Faculty of Humanities)
- University of Tsukuba (Faculty of Life Sciences)
- Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Faculty of Humanities)
- Waseda University (Faculty of Humanities)
- Yamagata University (Faculty of Humanities)
Jordan
Please note that these options are only open to students of Arabic Studies.
Morocco
Please note that this option is only open to students of Arabic Studies.
Russia
- HSE University, St Petersburg
- The University of Manchester partners with Russian Languages Undergraduate Studies (RLUS) for the provision of study abroad opportunities in Russia.
Please note that these options are only open to students of Russian Studies.
Taiwan
- National Taiwan University (Faculty of Humanities)
USA
- Arizona State University
- Case Western Reserve University
- Indiana University – Bloomington
- North Carolina State University
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- Stony Brook University
- University of California
- University of Colorado Boulder
- University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign
- University of Kentucky
- University of Maryland, College Park
- University of Massachusetts at Amherst
- University of Missouri at Columbia
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- University of Vermont
- University of Wisconsin – Madison
- Wellesley College
Alliance Manchester Business School partners
Alliance Manchester Business School operates a number of its own departmental exchanges with institutions around the world. These exchanges are separate from the University-wide exchanges listed above, and are only open to students linked to the Alliance Manchester Business School.