Does Yale offer graduate students the chance to study abroad?
Yale students are encouraged to do all of their coursework while in residence here, although they are free to travel abroad during their funded summers and during their fifth year. If there are compelling intellectual reasons, students may take one (or in unusual cases, two) semesters of coursework at another American university (usually one of the other major graduate schools with which Yale has a reciprocal exchange arrangement) or at a university abroad (usually through one of Yale’s official exchange programs). Students sometimes spend one of their later years studying as exchange students at other universities, whether on one of these exchange programs, on outside fellowships, or with their fifth year “dissertation year” fellowship support, which can be used anywhere in the world. The Graduate School website lists the foreign institutions with which Yale has reciprocal exchange relationships; for information please go to http://www.yale.edu/graduateschool/academics/specialPrograms
