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Study Abroad

We offer undergraduate students some 40 academic programs located all over the world. Visit the Office of International Studies to learn more.

Graduate students can choose from international research opportunities in many disciplines. Examples include:

Guided Research in Medieval Manuscripts

As part of their seminar on education in the Middle Ages, 10 graduate students spent a spring break in Germany studying medieval manuscripts at the world-renowned Herzog August Bibliothek. Students from the Medieval Institute, English, the Ph.D. in Literature Program, and the Early Christian Studies Program participated this year. Professors W. Martin Bloomer and Daniel Sheerin, both of the Department of Classics and the Medieval Institute, plan to make similar guided research visits a regular opportunity for Notre Dame graduate students.

Jose Enrique Fernández Fellowships

These fellowships provide funding for up to five doctoral students a year from Puerto Rico to attend Notre Dame. The stipend will be $22,000 per year. For more information on Notre Dame's Fernández Fellows, please see this profile.

National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

This program helps stimulate America's scientific and engineering base and reinforces its diversity. The program supports top students in NSF-supported engineering, science, technology, and mathematics disciplines who are pursuing research-based master's and doctoral degrees in the United States and abroad. For example, a student pursuing a master's degree in civil engineering received NSF support to study a groundwater system along Benin's coast. For more information about how to apply, please see the NSF website.

Naughton Graduate Student Exchange Program in Science and Engineering (with Trinity College, Dublin)

The Naughton exchange program offers full tuition, a stipend of $28,000 on a 12-month basis for up to five years, a living stipend while at the host institution, and full coverage of the University's health insurance premium. This exchange program between graduate students in science and engineering at Notre Dame and Trinity College Dublin invited its first students to join the program for the 2009-10 academic year.

The new program allows top-ranked, advanced students to learn at one of Ireland's leading universities and at the University of Notre Dame in three broad areas of study:

• Biomedical sciences and bioengineering
• Energy-related research
• Nanoscience and technology

Students selected will receive a nationally competitive stipend for four or five years and a supplement for living expenses for the one to two years the student is at the host institution.

Notre Dame-Chile Exchange

In October 2008, the University signed an agreement with the government of Chile that will facilitate the opportunity for students in that country to earn graduate degrees at Notre Dame and for doctoral students and faculty to engage in exchanges. For more information, see this article.

Summer Language Grants / Intensive Foreign Language Training Program

Some disciplines, particularly in the humanities, require proficiency in languages other than English. The Graduate School would like to make it possible for students to become fluent in languages besides English. While English is an international language, conference papers may be delivered in German or French, and questions voiced at those conferences may be posed by people who speak languages other than English.

The Center for the Study of Languages & Cultures' Summer Language Abroad (SLA) Grant Program provides funding for individual summer foreign language study abroad via awards of up to $5,500 combined with a comprehensive curriculum of international study, proficiency testing and service learning. The goal of the SLA Grant Program is to substantially increase the foreign language and intercultural competences among meritorious Notre Dame students.

University of Rennes, France Exchange

The University of Notre Dame’s Department of Romance Languages and Literatures sponsors students for graduate study at the Université de Rennes 2 in France. The exchange program is available to advanced graduate students with a specialization in French and caps five years of collaboration on teaching, publication projects, and conferences among faculty at both schools.