MBA international exchange programmes
Most of our MBA students are focused on furthering their global careers, so gaining additional experience of studying in other countries and cultures can be hugely rewarding. Lancaster's international MBA exchange schemes provide an opportunity for you to enrich your international experience as part of your Lancaster MBA.
Our Exchange Partners |
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Australia Monash University |
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New Zealand Victoria University of Wellington |
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Canada HEC Montréal |
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China Lingnan College, Sun Yat-Sen University |
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China Guanghua School of Management, Peking University |
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Austria Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien |
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France EMLYON Business School |
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Germany WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management |
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Spain Universidad de Deusto |
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Switzerland Universität St Gallen |
We have links with world-class partner institutions in the EU, Canada, China and Australasia. Most of the exchanges require you to spend a period of around three months over the summer at your exchange institution, where you complete courses or projects in place of the work you would have undertaken at LUMS.
Some exchange programmes begin in September or October – after you have completed your Lancaster studies – and may mean that you graduate the following year.
You will find brief details about each programme in our overview of current exchange schemes.
A handbook detailing all the exchange opportunity is provided at the start of the programme, and you have until mid-January to decide whether to apply for an exchange.
Language skills
It may be possible to build on your existing foreign language skills to the level required for some of the exchanges by undertaking language support courses during your MBA programme. These courses attract an an extra fee.
Participant view
Maxim Ruzanov attended the International Study Programme at St Gallen:
"The company visits on the ISP were amazing opportunities to learn from high-flying managers and allowed me to observe how Swiss business practices differ from those in the UK." Read more
Funding for Europeans
For UK and EU students, some of these exchange programmes – specifically those lasting 12 weeks or longer – may qualify for some grant support from the EU. The amount available varies each year, depending on the overall sum allocated to Lancaster by the EU. For further details, see the University's Erasmus pages.
