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.
View a region below to discover our partner institutions in different countries. Some of our partnerships are subject-specific, while others are open to students from across the University.
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
- 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
- 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 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
USA
- Arizona State University
- Babson College, Wellesley (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- Case Western Reserve University
- Cornell University (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- Foster School of Business, University of Washington (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- Fisher College of Business, Ohio State University (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)
- Raymond A. Mason School of Business, College of William and Mary (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 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 (Biological Sciences, Modern Languages)
- Nanjing University (Modern Languages only)
- Tsinghua University
- 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)
- International Christian University
- 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 only)
- Kyoto University (Modern Languages only)
- 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 (Biology, Modern Languages)
- Rikkyo University (Modern Languages only)
- Ritsumeikan University (Modern Languages only)
- Saitama University (Modern Languages only)
- University of Tokyo
- 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
- National Taiwan University (Modern Languages only)
- National Taiwan Normal University
Thailand
- Chiang Mai University (Biology only)
Austria
- Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck (Modern Languages only)
- Universität Wien (Biology only)
Belgium
- Université Libre de Bruxelles (Translation and Interpretation only)
- University of Liege (Law only)
- University of Antwerp (Law only)
Czech Republic
- Charles University (Law only)
- Palacky University (Geography only)
Denmark
- Aarhus University (Summer School)
- Copenhagen Business School (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- Copenhagen University
Finland
- Aalto University, School of Business (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- University of Helsinki (Anthropology - PGT only, Law)
France
- Catholic University of Lyon (Summer School)
- Catholic University of Lille (IESEG School of Management)(Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- Ecole Nationale Superieure de Chimie de Montpellier (Chemistry only)
- EM Lyon Business School (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 Toulouse (History, Modern Languages)
- Université Grenoble Alps (Modern Languages, Physics)
- Université Jean Moulin Lyon (Modern Languages only)
- Université Lumiere Lyon (Modern Languages only)
- Université Paris Nanterre (Anthropology only)
- Université Paris-Saclay (Physics only)
- Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse (Biology only)
- Université Rennes Haute Bretagne (Modern Languages only)
Germany
- Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Biology, Chemistry, Modern Languages)
- Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tubingen (Mathematics only)
- Freie Universität Berlin (American Studies, English, Physics)
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Linguistics, Medicine)
- Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (Medicine only)
- Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg (Biology, Linguistics, Physics)
- Technische Universität Munchen (Physics only)
- Universität Osnabrück (Geography only)
- Universität des Saarlandes (Medicine only)
- Universität Gesamthochschule Paderborn (Linguistics only)
- Universität Hamburg (Linguistics only)
- Universität Leipzig (Modern Languages only)
- Universität Stuttgart (Chemical Engineering only)
- University of Tubingen (Mathematics)
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 di Bologna (Modern Languages only)
- Università di Firenze (Biology, Chemistry)
- Università di Napoli (Modern Languages only)
- Università di Pisa (Modern Languages only)
Netherlands
- Erasmus University Rotterdam (Alliance Manchester Business School, History)
- University of Amsterdam
- Utrecht University (Ancient History, Classics, Geography, Geology)
- 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 Carlos III de Madrid(Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- 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)
- Universidad Europea Miguel de Cervantes (Modern Languages only)
- 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
- Lund University (Biology, Geography)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Science (Planning and Landscape only)
- Stockholm University Business School (Alliance Manchester Business School only)
- Uppsala University (History)
Switzerland
- Universität Basel (Modern Languages)
- Université de Genève (Biology, Translation and Interpretation)
- 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)
Morocco
- Arabic Language Institute in Fez (ALIF) (Modern Languages only)
Uganda
- University of Makerere, Kampala (Chemical Engineering 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.