At Manchester, most of our undergraduate courses offer the opportunity to spend time abroad in more than 30 countries, studying at one of nearly 300 partner universities that include some of the most prestigious institutions in the world.
Why study abroad?
Studying abroad provides an exciting opportunity to experience a new country and a different culture but it can also provide you with many more possibilities to:
- Enhance your employability
- Broaden your global network
- Form new friendships
- Gain life experience
- See the world
- Improve your language skills
Hear from our students
Where can I go?
We currently have links with nearly 300 universities in more than 30 countries – a list that continues to develop and expand so that we can offer our students new and diverse opportunities.
Some partners are school specific, as mentioned in brackets in the list below. The remaining partners are discipline specific – you can find out where you can go with your degree by searching placement opportunities.
Please note: all opportunities are subject to availability and may change from year-to-year.
Argentina
- Universidad del Salvador (Modern Languages only)
Brazil
- Universidade de Sao Paulo (Modern Languages only)
- Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Modern Languages only)
Canada
- Concordia University
- Dalhousie University
- Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- McGill University
- Queen’s School of Business, Queen’s University (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- Queen's University
- Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- Schulich School of Business, York University (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- Simon Fraser University
- University of Alberta (Nursing only)
- University of British Columbia
- University of Calgary
- University of Guelph
- University of Ottawa
- Université de Sherbrooke (Modern Languages only)
- University of Toronto
- University of Toronto Mississauga
- University of Toronto Scarborough
- University of Victoria
Chile
- Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Modern Languages only)
- Universidad de Concepción (Biology only)
Cuba
- Universidad de La Habana (Modern Languages only)
Mexico
Uruguay
- Universidad ORT (Modern Languages only)
USA
- Arizona State University
- Babson College, Wellesley (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- Case Western Reserve University
- Foster School of Business, University of Washington (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- Gies College of Business, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- Goizueta Business School, Emory University (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- Indiana University Bloomington
- Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- North Carolina State University
- Robert H Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, College Park (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- Stony Brook University
- The Stern School of Business, New York University (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- University of Boston (Health Sciences only)
- University of California
- University of Colorado at Boulder
- University of Florida
- 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 North Carolina, Chapel Hill
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville
- University of Vermont
- University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Warrington College of Business Administration, University of Florida (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- Wellesley College
- W P Carey School of Business, Arizona State University (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
China
- Beijing Normal University (Modern Languages only)
- East China Normal University (Modern Languages only)
- Fudan University (Modern Languages only)
- Nanjing University (Modern Languages only)
- Tsinghua University (Modern Languages and Biological Sciences only)
- Zhejiang University (Modern Languages only)
- Wuhan University (Modern Languages only)
Hong Kong
- Chinese University of Hong Kong
- University of Hong Kong
- Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Alliance Manchester Business School, Biology)
Japan
- Chuo University (Modern Languages only)
- Dokkyo University (Modern Languages only)
- Doshisha University (Modern Languages only)
- Fukuoka Women's University (Modern Languages only)
- Hiroshima University (Modern Languages only)
- Hitotsubashi University (Modern Languages only)
- Hokkaido University (Biology, Modern Languages plus options through the International Exchange Programme)
- International Christian University (Modern Languages plus options through the International Exchange Programme)
- Kanagawa University (Modern Languages only)
- Kansai Gaidai University (Modern Languages only)
- Keio University (Modern Languages only)
- Kobe University (Modern Languages only)
- Kwansei Gakuin University (Modern Languages plus options through the International Exchange Programme)
- Kyoto University (Modern Languages plus options through the International Exchange Programme)
- Meiji University (Modern Languages only)
- Meiji Gakuin University (Modern Languages only)
- Nagoya University (Biology only)
- Nanzan University (Modern Languages only)
- Oita University (Modern Languages only)
- Osaka University (Humanities and Biology)
- Rikkyo University (Modern Languages plus options through the International Exchange Programme)
- Ritsumeikan University (Modern Languages only)
- Saitama University (Modern Languages only)
- University of Tokyo (Modern Languages plus options through the International Exchange Programme)
- Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Modern Languages only)
- Tsukuba University (Biology only)
- Waseda University (Modern Languages only)
- Yamagata University (Modern Languages only)
Singapore
South Korea
Taiwan
- National Chengchi University (Modern Languages only)
- National Taiwan University (Modern Languages only)
- National Taiwan Normal University (Modern Languages only)
Thailand
- Chiang Mai University (Biology only)
Austria
- Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck (Modern Languages only)
- Universität Wien (Biology, Modern Languages only)
Belgium
- Université Libre de Bruxelles (Modern Languages only)
- University of Liege (Law only)
- University of Antwerp (Law only)
Czechia
- Charles University (Law only)
- Palacky University (Geography only)
Denmark
- Aarhus University (Summer School)
- Copenhagen Business School (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- Copenhagen University
- Technical University of Denmark (DTU) (Biology only)
Estonia
- Language Link, Tallinn (Modern Languages only)
Finland
- University of Helsinki (Law only)
France
- Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Montpellier (Chemistry only)
- EM Lyon Business School (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- IESEG School of Management Paris and Lille Campus (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse (Chemical Engineering only)
- Sciences Po (Politics only)
- Sciences Po Toulouse (Politics only)
- Sorbonne University (Medicine, Modern Languages, Physics)
- Université Claude Bernard Lyon (Biology, Medicine,Physics)
- Université d' Avignon (Modern Languages only)
- Université de Bordeaux (Mathematics only)
- Université de Lille (Modern Languages only)
- Université de Lorraine ENSIC (Chemical Engineering only)
- Université de Poitiers (Modern Languages only)
- Université de Strasbourg (Chemistry and French)
- Université de Toulouse – Jean Jaures (Toulouse 2) (History, Modern Languages)
- Université Grenoble Alps (Modern Languages, Physics)
- Université Jean Moulin Lyon (Modern Languages only)
- Université Lumiere Lyon (Modern Languages only)
- Université Paris Cite (Medicine)
- Université Paris Nanterre (Anthropology only)
- Université Paris-Saclay (Physics only)
- Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse (Biology only)
- Université Rennes 2 (Modern Languages only)
Georgia
- FORM, Tbilisi (Modern Languages only)
- Goga Askurava Language Centre (Modern Languages only)
Germany
- Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Biology, Chemistry, Modern Languages)
- Freie Universität Berlin (American Studies, English, Physics)
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Linguistics, Medicine, Modern Languages only)
- Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (Medicine only)
- Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg (Biology, Linguistics, Physics, Modern Languages only)
- Technische Universität Munchen (Physics only)
- Universität Osnabrück (Geography only)
- Universität Hamburg (Linguistics, Modern Languages only)
- Universität Leipzig (Modern Languages only)
- Universität Stuttgart (Chemical Engineering only)
Hungary
- Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)(Law only)
Italy
- Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi (Alliance Manchester Business School, Economics)
- Università degli Studi di Bergamo (Modern Languages only)
- Università Degli Studi Di Roma Tor Vergata (Biology only)
- Università Degli Studi di Trieste (Physics only)
- Università Degli Studi Palermo (Modern Languages only)
- Università di Bologna (Modern Languages, Politics only)
- Università di Firenze (Biology, Chemistry)
- Università di Napoli (Modern Languages only)
- Università di Pisa (Modern Languages only)
- Università di Torino (Modern Languages only)
Netherlands
- Erasmus University Rotterdam (Alliance Manchester Business School, History)
- University of Amsterdam
- Utrecht University (Geography, Geology only)
- Free University of Amsterdam
- Wageningen Universiteit (Planning and Landscape only)
Norway
- University of Bergen (Geography, Law)
Poland
- University of Warsaw (Law only)
Portugal
- Universidade de Coimbra (Modern Languages only)
- Universidade de Lisboa (Modern Languages only)
- Universidade do Porto (Modern Languages only)
Spain
- ESADE Business School, Ramon Lull University (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- Ramon Llull University (Chemical Engineering only)
- Universidad Autònoma de Madrid (Biology, Chemical Engineering, Medicine, Modern Languages, Physics)
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Mathematics, Medicine, Psychology
- Universidad de Alcalá (Modern Languages only)
- Universidad de Almería (Modern Languages only)
- Universidad de Cantabria (Physics only)
- Universidad de Deusto (Modern Languages only)
- Universidad de Granada (Medicine)
- Universidad de La Rioja (Modern Languages only)
- Universidad de Salamanca (Biology only)
- Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Modern Languages only)
- Universidad de Sevilla (Biology, Modern Languages)
- Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Anthropology, Modern Languages)
- Universitat de Barcelona(Biology, Modern Languages)
- Universitat de València (Chemistry, Modern Languages)
- Universidade de Vigo (Modern Languages only)
Sweden
- Linköping University (Biology only)
- Lund University (Biology, Geography)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Science (Planning and Landscape only)
- Stockholm School of Economics PG (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- Stockholm University Business School (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
Switzerland
- Universität Basel (Modern Languages)
- Université de Genève (Biology, Modern Languages only)
- Université de Lausanne (Biology, Medicine)
- University of St Gallen (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
Turkey
- Boğaziçi University (History only)
Jordan
- Jordan Language Academy (JLA) (Modern Languages only)
- Qasid Arabic Institute (Modern Languages only)
Kazakhstan
- Language Link, Astana (Modern Languages only)
Morocco
- Arabic Language Institute in Fez (ALIF) (Modern Languages only)
Find out more
You can find further information on finance and funding and other opportunities available on the Go Abroad website.
If you have any questions about studying abroad as part of your degree, you can contact our International Programmes Office at goabroad@manchester.ac.uk.