Does Columbia offer study abroad or exchange programs?
Columbia operates programs in Beijing, Berlin, Egypt, Kyoto, Paris, Shanghai and Venice. Columbia also sponsors special exchange programs with Oxford and Cambridge and in Paris at Sciences Po and at Ecole Polytechnique. The Summer Ecosystem Experience for Undergraduates (SEE-U) allows Columbia College students the opportunity to fulfill the science requirement of the Core and participate in field ecology abroad. In addition, Columbia offers students the chance to study for one semester at Howard University, a historically Black college in Washington, D.C., or at Spelman College, a historically Black women’s college in Atlanta, Georgia. The Office of Global Programs assists Columbia students in studying or interning abroad at approximately 150 other approved programs in both developed and developing parts of the world.
