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HDX

Hey all, how b dah?
Is it true that our liked TCD is twinned with Boston Collge and as such it is possible to spend 3rd year abroad in Boston college,
has anyone any experience of this is it available for some/most/nearly all courses?

care to share?
we can all have friends of all sizes

Edwardius

MIT??!! or is there another one. What does that twinned business mean? Do we have free run on their women?

Nietzschean

never heard of it either.....

punka

I don't know if it's twinned with BC, but lots of students from that college come over to TCD for a year abroad - my roommate in 3rd year went to BC. I saw a poster up in the Classics department earlier this year for a scholarship for spending a year abroad in BC - so I assume you're able to go. However I think individual departments tend to have arrangements with specific universities abroad, so whether or not you can go will depend on what course you're doing. Your course handbook should give some info, if not, ask your head of department.

TCD has an agreement with BC - for Business students anyway you can do a straight business degree and spend your third year in BC for a reduced fee.

Black_Couch

where else can you go?

Specifically doing a BA in Economics and Business or BBS in Business.

Tchocky

going over for a year in a few weeks

NUIM have a great exchange program :P

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Tchocky wrote:

NUIM have a great exchange program :P

My girlfriend goes and my brother and his wife went to NUIM and I have to disagree with you there. University of Kentucky? FFS like.

Black_Couch, here's what you can do with Economics anyway. I intend to never visit any Business School site again so you'll have to do with what I give you, or visit that ugly bitch yourself.

Dept of Economics wrote:

Louvain, Belgium (around 7-10 students annually for both half-year and full-year exchanges).

Tilburg, Netherlands (around 5 students annually for half-year exchanges)

Köln, Germany (around 4 students annually for half-year exchanges).

Sciences Po, Paris (around 6 students annually for full-year exchanges).

Queensland University of Technology, in Brisbane, Australia

The BC and other Business school arangements are not covered under SOCRATES / ERASMUS as they are EU funded.

You have to go to an office on the first floor in the Public exam hall - the door is on the left (the side nearest the post grad reading room), up the stairs on the on the left.

They deal with all of the exchanges, but i cannot remember what the place is called! sorry!

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there's quite a wide range of places, but they rotate every year or so. i think boston college is a rotated college. you need to go into the international office for more info.

think it is a different college that begins with 'b' with which tcd business school has linked up with ... can't remember it off-hand, but babson college (a brilliant college for entreprenerial studies) rings a bell.

punka

A friend of mine went to Emory for his year abroad, I think that was organised through the Business School

Black_Couch

Doing an international exchange is something I'm dead set on. Its interesting to hear the places you can go to. Anybody here done one, and if so what did you think?

http://www.tcd.ie/Business_Studies/Undergrad/experience/admin.php

It is also possible to choose a course in Japanese Business, Language and Society, and to apply for an exchange placement with our partner university in Tokyo in your third year. The School has many international business exchange programmes in third year including opportunities in USA, Canada, Sweden, Netherlands, France, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong

right from the horse's mouth. Little bit vague though.

also

International Exchanges
The School of Business Studies has more than 60 international exchange places with over 30 university business schools. Most are full-year exchanges in French and German speaking institutions in Austria, Belgium, France and Germany. A special Japanese exchange is also available and Business Studies and Chinese students attend the Mandarin Training Centre and the National Taiwan University in Taipei. English language programmes are available in The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Japan.
These exchange agreements reflect the international character of the School's programmes, staff and student body. Since a modern language other than English and international experience are increasingly regarded as employment pre-requisites by many major organisations, students are urged to strengthen their language skills during their Freshman years with a view to spending all or part of their third year studying abroad. Many overseas institutions have intensive language courses, usually in September, to prepare students for the task of studying in the target language. Enquiries should be directed to the School's SOCRATES Co-ordinator, or to the School Office (Room 3.09) where materials from the various institutions are available to students.

lifted from here

Edwardius

Be wary of "Louvain" (It's Leuven, seein as it's in flanders an' all). It looks nice but the people are (for the most part) boring, everyone disappears at the weekend turning it into a ghost town, so you have to get pissed off your trolley to avoid being bored to an early grave.