When applying for a European exchange place, students may apply select up to three universities. The three choices may be a mix of: specific department to department partners; and institution-wide partners listed below. 

Aside from a year abroad on a study placement, Education students may wish to consider becoming an English Language Assistant abroad. Please contact the School of Education's Departmental Exchange and Placement Coordinator for details (as Assistantships are run separately to the Global Opportunities-managed year abroad). The Edward Richardson Travel Bursary provides some financial support for Assistantships (but not study Year Abroad).

Education Specific Partners

These are departmental links only available to students studying education as part of their degree. Students studying joint/combined honours that include education may also apply for these universities, but must select a majority of modules in education at these partners.

* these numbers and levels are subject to approval by the partner university.

Institution-wide Partners

These university partners are open to students from any academic Department - except any departments listed in the "Restrictions" column listed below. If your department is listed as a restriction you must not apply for a place at that partner. Before making an application, you must check that sufficient modules for a full workload are available in your subject at these partners. To do this you will need to visit the partner university's incoming exchange website. These university partnerships are are supported our membership of the Coimbra Group (CG) Student Exchange Network (SEN) and Arqus on the Move Network.

Please be aware that institution-wide places are more competitive than departmental places. If demand for places at the partners below exceeds the quota number of places available, places will be allocated by the International Office based on grades and the application materials provided. When making an application, on the host section of the European application form, please indicate (from the column “type” below):

• "Institution-wide" when choosing a general institution-wide partner
• “SEN” when choosing a Coimbra Group Student Exchange Network (SEN) partner
• “Arqus” when choosing an Arqus on the Move partner

List of Institution-wide exchange partners

* The Languages for a Year Abroad page provides additional information about CEFR language levels.

** Technically, these universities are part of both of the SEN and Arqus network. Please select these as 'Institution-wide' when applying.

***Unlimited / unrestricted numbers - should one of these be exceptionally popular, Durham reserves the right not to allocate a place. This is because exchange partnerships operate on the principles of long-term balanced reciprocity between universities in terms of the number of students sent and received. In such a scenario we will work with the partner to establish the maximum number of Durham students they can reasonably accommodate.