Northwestern University

Ayse Serra Isil
Oct 18, 2017
2 min read

Northwestern University is located along the shores of Lake Michigan just 12 miles north of downtown Chicago in Evanston, Illinois. The O ce of International Program Development (IPD) at Northwestern welcomes over 50 exchange students from over a dozen university partners each year, who study at Northwestern during the Fall, Winter, and/or Spring Quarters. Students may enroll directly in courses across a wide variety of disciplines and can take part in hundreds of student clubs, events, and activities.

ACADEMICS

Undergraduate students at Northwestern typically take three or four courses per quarter in a variety of subjects. Most courses at Northwestern are worth 1 unit of credit and meet for three hours per week over the 10-week quarter. Some classes have additional laboratory or discussion sections. International exchange students must maintain full-time enrollment, which is de ned as three or more credits per quarter. It is not recommended that exchange students take ve classes, what is considered at Northwestern to be an overload, given various demands and priorities on and o campus. For the purpose of transferring credit, 1 unit of Northwestern credit should be considered the equivalent of 2.66 U.S. semester hours.

Available Courses: As long as prerequisites are met, and courses are open, exchange students have full access to courses available to undergraduates in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and McCormick School of

Engineering and Applied Science, as well as limited access to courses in the Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications; School of Education and Social Policy; School of Communication; and School of Professional Studies.

Unavailable Courses: Courses in the following departments and schools are not open to exchange students: Integrated Marketing Communications (Medill), Kellogg School of Management, Pritzker School of Law, Feinberg School of Medicine, Bienen School of Music.

Course Registration: Northwestern cannot guarantee enrollment in any speci c courses. Exchange students can register for courses online approximately 4-6 weeks before the start of each quarter. Access Northwestern’s undergraduate catalog to identify possible courses: www.registrar.northwestern.edu/courses

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

Students must be nominated by their home university rst. IPD will contact partner universities to submit their student nominations online. Students must then complete an online application, which includes the following: