Study Abroad Opportunities for Students in the College


Emily Capo
Students View from School
Toledo, Spain

Please note: Study abroad programs sponsored by the undergraduate College of the University of Chicago are open to University of Chicago students only. Applications from outside the University are not accepted.

For an increasing number of students in the College, a period of serious study abroad has become an essential and valued part of their Chicago education. Every year these students make their way to a variety of foreign cities-to Berlin, Oaxaca, Bologna, Toledo, Athens, Cape Town, Kyoto, Paris, and others-there to study at a local university, to perfect their knowledge of a language, or to study a civilization at its center. Apart from the academic component of these ventures, an extended period of time abroad offers a cultural immersion, an opportunity to examine habits and attitudes different from, sometimes inimical to, those at home. Participants in Chicago's programs abroad accept challenges different from those on campus. They return to Hyde Park with a larger view of the world, a wider
    


Joanna Becker
Rowing Down the Ganges (Varansi)
Pune, India
sympathy for its peoples, and a stronger sense of themselves. We hope you will use this web site, with its many links, to learn about Chicago's programs and to begin planning a study abroad experience for yourself.

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