'Studying Abroad' during grad school possible at UCLA?

juillet
Fri, 21 Apr 2017 19:50:13 +0000

Yes, sort of…but only if it’s highly relevant to your research and career goals.

There are a variety of programs that help graduate students study abroad. The Fulbright full grant program is one of the most prominent - you write a grant to do research (and study, potentially) in another country for about a year. There are other programs that are kind of like this, but the unifying factor is that you have to have a really good justification why you need to go abroad to do research and why you need to go to the specific location you want to go to. For example, if you were doing Irish and American comparative politics research you may be able to justify studying in Dublin for a year so you can be close to sources or whatnot. Keep in mind that the European grants are the most competitive ones because they don’t require language learning and more people want to go there.

There aren’t really very many programs that are “study abroad” in the sense of undergrad, where you just go and take classes and have a good time for a semester or a year. You might be able to do an MA abroad in Ireland or somewhere else, which would be the closest analogue to that. There might be some MA programs that are dual programs with universities in Ireland, too.