Study abroad
All Essex students have the opportunity to spend time studying abroad
during their course.
Study abroad is available at our
partner universities around the world. After study abroad, you will be
able to present future employers with evidence of your capacity for
inter-cultural understanding, self-reliance and independence.
During your time spent studying abroad you will not be charged tuition fees at Essex and the
majority of our partner universities will not charge you tuition fees either. We also offer
various funding opportunities to study
abroad students.
Modern languages year abroad
You spend your year abroad in a country where your major language is
spoken. You can choose to spend this working as an English language
assistant in a school if you are under 30, or as a student at one of our
partner universities:
- France: Lyon 3; Nice; Paris (for students taking
Politics or European Studies).
- Germany: Berlin (FUB); Trier (usual destination for
intensive route); Konstanz.
- Spain: Murcia; Madrid (Complutense); Madrid (Francisco
de Vittoria - for BSc Business Management and Modern Languages only);
Granada; Cadiz.
- Mexico: ITESM (campuses all over Mexico); UDEM
(Monterrey); UADY (Merida)
- Chile: Universidad Chileno - Británica, Santiago, Chile
(paid assistantships available)
- Colombia: Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá
- Italy: Bologna; Urbino
- Portugal: University of Coimbra
- Brazil: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina -
Florianópolis; Universidade Federal da Bahia - Salvador
You take a full module load at your host university and this experience
will enable you to enhance your international profile and employability.
If you study two languages to final honours level, you also spend an
extensive residence abroad period in the country of your second language.
There are no specific requirements about how this time is spent.
Planning your study abroad
You will be helped and supported throughout your first and second years
at Essex, when you will plan your study abroad.
- Essex Abroad holds information
sessions for first-year students during the autumn term and ongoing drop-in
sessions for advice on the suitability of individual universities.
- Final-year students who have just returned to Essex provide first-hand
accounts of the ups and downs of their experiences.
- You may be able to meet with exchange students from the country you will
be visiting, who are spending their period of study abroad at Essex, to get
their personal accounts of their home campuses and the differences between
the British education system and their own.
- Our Students' Union has a
Year Abroad Society, which can provide peer advice and support.
Keeping in touch
You will have a local supervisor who provides guidance on academic and
other matters in much the same way as your course director at Essex. You
will keep in regular touch with both this local supervisor and with Essex
and will normally receive a monitoring visit from an Essex staff member
during the year. You will remain in contact with Essex (and fellow students)
via e-mail and our Essex Abroad Office.