You can find your subject academic advisor here. They can answer any of your academic related questions about your exchange and will approve your class choices and make sure that you are awarded the correct number of credits when you return. The exchange office cannot advise you on any class choices or any academic issues.

You must meet the minimum average grade of your department or faculty by the point of application. Check with your academic advisor to find out what it is for you.
This academic approval is only provisional until you receive your final grades after your May exams, where if you are successful in meeting the minimum average grades required, you will receive final academic approval to go.

No. Your classes should match as much as possible what you would be taking if you stayed at Strathclyde. Some departments are more flexible allowing you to take ‘elective’ equivalents, others will need a more specific match of ‘core classes’ to work. All classes are approved by your academic advisor and failure to take the classes approved by them may result in you having to repeat the year.

Rather than classes, you need to have the right number of credits. For USA and Canada this is usually between 4 – 6 classes, in France this could be 12 classes. You want to make sure that you are doing an equivalent workload in your host university. More information on the credit load is available on the host university webpages. 

No. It is not intended to add any time to your degree and any classes and credits that you take when you are on exchange, contribute to your degree. 

It depends on your department. Some departments will give you a Pass/Fail for the classes that you take abroad and you only receive the credits to allow you to proceed to the next year or graduate. Other departments will give you a grade.

The cost can vary depending on where you go. Student’s feedback has ranged from £2000 - £12000 per semester. Look at the student feedback for what previous students have spent (available on the mypplace page) and you can also compare the cost of living in the host countries via cost of living comparison sites like numbeo 

A non exhaustive list of things you have to pay for:

• visa (and cost of any documents that you might need translated, or travel to your visa appointment)
• travel (to and from your host university and any travel you would like to do when you are away
• housing
• health insurance (often mandatory in USA/Canada/Australia),
• food (sometimes you have to take out a meal plan in the USA),
• books
• any other costs that you might have when you are away.

You can continue to receive any bursary or student loan that you would normally receive if you were studying at Strathclyde when you are on exchange.
There is also some funding available through the Turing Scholarship or Alumni funding. The amount available changes each year and there is normally an eligibility critieria to receive this. There are other resources for funding that you can apply to independently. Further details can be found on the funding and scholarships page.

If your course has a compulsory exchange (for example, your degree is ‘with international study ‘ or you are a language student or studying IB, MIBML or LML), and are SAAS funded, you can receive support for your expenses – details are available of what is covered on the SAAS Study Abroad Expenses page. You are only eligible if you are going on a study placement. If you are doing an English Language Assistant, you cannot receive this funding.

You apply for exchange the year before you can go. For example, if in your degree, you can go abroad in your 3rd year, you will apply during your 2nd year. The application generally opens in November and closes in early January. 

You can make up to 6 choices, however, if you only want to go to one place, only put this down as you must be willing to go to any of your choices. If you only put one choice down it doesn’t increase your chances of being allocated there. 

You can write in the ‘any additional comments’ if you would like to do this, and we will try and take this into consideration but it is not always possible. 

For each choice that you apply for, you will have to submit a class list that would match the classes you would be taking if were still at Strathclyde. These will be checked by your Exchange Academic Advisor. Some Universities are not suitable for all subjects so you must do your research – you can find details of classes students have chosen before on myplace.
You will also have to answer a short question on how you hope to benefit from your exchange and submit a budget planner.

We aim to let everyone know by the end of February, even if you are going in the second semester. 

No. It is not like UCAS. You will only receive one offer for one destination. 

We use your weighted average grade and your ranking from your academic advisor (exceptional, above average, average, below average) to rank your applications and anyone where an exchange is a compulsory part of their degree is given priority. Where there is someone with the same ranking applying to the same university, we will take your personal statement into consideration.

If you reject your offer, you could be offered an alternative place but this will only be if there are exchange places left after everyone has been allocated. 

If you have provisional academic approval and you can’t be offered a place at any of your choices due to your choices being full, we will send you a list of places that are still available and you can choose from these options. If there is nothing that is suitable, you might find a summer programme that would work for you as an alternative. Details of the summer abroad options are listed online and will be updated when we have details of what is taking place. 

Unfortunately, if you are in this position, we will not be able to proceed with your application. The academic approval is in place as we want you to be successful on your exchange abroad and often the demands of studying abroad can be higher. You are welcome to apply for any summer opportunities that are on offer. 

This is the application link. It will open on Monday 18th November and close on Friday 17th January 2025. 

No. The business school has their own application process and form. You can find further details of their process on their international exhcange webpages

You must then apply to your host university directly. We nominate you first (tell them that you have been selected for your exchange) and then you will complete their application. The deadlines for this depend on where you are going. The exchange team will send you details about the process and support you throughout. You can see the process on this timeline.

No. You can only go to a partner university. 

A partner university is a university that Strathclyde has an agreement with and work together to send each other students on exchange.

No. This will depend on your subject area and whether or not you can take classes relevant to your degree. You can find out where you can go by subject area here. If you are a joint honours student you can look at destinations for both subject areas.

No. Many partner universities have classes in English. You can check their class lists to see what classes are taught in English. Where they require some language level, they are generally looking for you to have B1 or B2. You can take French, Spanish, Italian or Chinese as an elective at Strathclyde in preparation. 

It is your responsibility to organise your travel. You can decide on how to get there using sites like rome2rio and check which flights are best through google flights, skyscanner, kiwi or other price comparison sites. Remember not to book any travel until you have your acceptance and any visa has been confirmed. 

The type of accommodation depends on where you are going. Some Universities only allow you to stay on campus (many of the USA partner universities) and others do not have any student accommodation and you will stay in an apartment or private student halls. The student feedback on Myplace is the best source of information about the situation at your future host university/city and how to find accommodation. 

It depends on where you are going. If you already have an EU passport (for example, an Irish or Spanish passport), you won’t require a visa to study in Europe. You will just need to apply for a residency permit when you arrive. However, if you only have a UK passport, any stay over 90 days requires a visa in Europe. Other countries will depend on their entry requirements but the majority require some type of visa or student permit. You can find the links to the appropriate consulate or embassy under ‘entry requirements’ on the FCDO travel advice pages.