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):
List of Institution-wide exchange partners
German B2
English B2 (search for classes taught in English)
Institution-wide
Applications for subjects with restricted admission will be considered upon prior consultation with the departments concerned.
Pharmacy lab placements are generally difficult and cannot be guaranteed.
French B2
English B2
Unlimited***
Medicine: Applications approved within a limited number of places and after prior validation by the departmental coordinator.
Finnish
Swedish
German B1
English B1
Education
Italian A2
Italian B1
Italian
Coimbra SEN
Law, Economics & Business, Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy.
Polish B2
Restricted Acces to Faculty of Law, Administration andEconomics and Faculty of Biotechnology.
All applications will be approved upon prior consultation withthe departments concerned.
Portuguese B1
English
French B1
Unrestricted***
Spanish B1
French
CH ZURICH01
University of Zurich
Switzerland
German C1
6
Priority to students from Biosciences and SGIA
TRISTANBU16
Kadir Has University
Turkey
2
Priority to students from SGIA
* 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.
Durham is a proud member of the Coimbra Group - an association of long-established European multidisciplinary universities of high international standard. The Coimbra Group is committed to creating special academic and cultural ties in order to promote study and research benefits for its members.