The Exchange Program

The Master of Global Affairs Program at the Munk School encourages its students to participate in an exchange program to enhance their overall education experience. The MGA program offers a number of exchange opportunities to students in their second year of study. Given the structure of the program, MGA students can only go on exchanges in the first semester of their second year. (If feasible, the internship undertaken in the summer between the two years of the program could thus be combined with an exchange semester in the same location.)

Our exchanges fall into two categories: Munk School Exchanges( see list below) and University of Toronto Student Exchanges. The University of Toronto’s Student Exchange Program (SEP) at the Centre for International Experience (CIE) facilitates and supports our students going on exchange, but final approval for your participation rests with the MGA program. Regardless of which exchange you are interested in, you must obtain prior approval for your exchange from the director of the program.

The Munk School of Global Affairs has partnered with the following institutions. MGA students eligible to go on exchange to any of these schools:

National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) in Tokyo

Website: http://www.grips.ac.jp/

The National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) was founded in 1997 as a stand-alone national graduate university focused on policy studies. Future policy leaders and researchers from all over the world gather here, forming an international research hub.

Although GRIPS is a graduate school focusing on Policy Studies, it features a wide variety of education programs. They offer a total of 15 Master’s programs and 6 Doctorate programs, as well as a five-year Policy Analysis Program that integrates the Master’s and Doctorate curricula. Available lectures encompass a broad range of subjects including economics, political science, public administration, international relations, social engineering and mathematical science.

GRIPS offers education programs that allow students to earn degrees using just English, with students and alumni from 79 nations worldwide so far, including Asia, Australia, Europe and Africa. They also place emphasis on recruiting our teaching staff internationally.

GRIPS students include current administrative officials from both Japan and overseas, many of which will become high-ranking members of their respective governments following graduation. Their teaching staff also includes former officials, creating a desirable environment for students pursuing policy studies.

GRIPS programs, of course, are not exclusively for those with professional experiences. In recent years, GRIPS has actively recruited new college graduates and applicants with no prior experience as officials, in order to create a network of individuals with various backgrounds and enabling a rich people environment to bolster their policy studies

Sabanci University in Istanbul

Website: http://myweb.sabanciuniv.edu/iro/

Sabancı University is a private, independent young university with a state of the art campus spread over 1,260,000 m2 and located 40 km from Istanbul’s city center. The University aspires to develop competent and confident individuals, capable of independent and critical reflection, who possess a strong sense of social responsibility. This mission is reflected throughout the entire University, from its interdisciplinary academic programs, its state-of-the-art technology and infrastructure and its research and development projects in industry.

The University functions in a bilingual mode, relying on English as its primary language of instruction, but using Turkish whenever necessary, for example, for courses and readings on Turkish Literature or Ottoman History. Through the implementation of its inventive faculty programs and the establishment of close links with the State, business community, NGOs and other institutions of higher learning, Sabancı University has fostered an environment conducive to research. It has the distinction of being the first university in Turkey accepted for membership in the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM).

List of Munk School-preferred CIE Partners

Fudan University in Shanghai

Website: http://www.fao.fudan.edu.cn/s/42/t/88/p/19/c/815/list.htm

Fudan consists of 29 schools and departments, with seventy undergraduate disciplines. The university now has an enrolment of 26,792 full-time degree candidates. Another 20,670 are studying at the schools of Continuing Education and Online Education. Besides, the University's population of foreign students is 2,812 today.

Fudan boasts a qualified faculty of over 2,481 full-time teachers and researchers. In the recent years, the University has been proactive in recruiting youthful strengths and optimizing the echelon of its faculty. After years of exploring and practicing, Fudan has now established its own curriculum and management system, both of which are unique and progressively improving.

Hebrew University in Jerusalem

Website: http://www.huji.ac.il/huji/eng/student_overseas_e.htm

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem was opened in 1925 on Mount Scopus, which overlooks the Old City of Jerusalem. Today more than 23,000 students study on the four campuses of the University:

Mount Scopus Campus houses: the Faculty of Humanities and School of Education; Faculty of Social Sciences; Faculty of Law and Institute of Criminology; School of Business Administration; School of Occupational Therapy; School of Social Work & Social Welfare and the Rothberg International School;

Edmond Safra Givat Ram Campus houses the Faculty of Mathematics and Science and the School of Computer Science and Engineering;

Ein Karem Campus houses the Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center – Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Medical Research, School of Pharmacy, School of Public Health & Family Medicine, School of Nursing and the Faculty of Dental Medicine;

Rehovot Campus houses the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food & Environment; School of Nutritional Sciences and the School of Veterinary Medicine.

The Hebrew University is open to all academically qualified applicants, regardless of nationality, race, creed, color or religion. Studies are offered on the undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels and postgraduate diploma programs. A complete list of departmental programs is found here.

Tech de Monterrey, Mexico

Website: http://www.cem.itesm.mx/international/extranjeros/

Founded in 1943m Tech de Monterrey is a private, non-profit, independent educational institution with no political or religious affiliation. Today, we are a multi-campus college system with academic venues all over the country and an international presence through our sites and liaison offices in 12 foreign countries.

Our educational offering consists of a wide assortment of undergraduate majors, specialties, master’s degree programs, medical specialty programs, and Ph. D. programs in the fields of agriculture, architecture, business and management, communications and journalism, design and applied art, education, engineering and sciences, food technology, health, the humanities and social sciences, information technology and electronics, and law.

Some of the graduate fields have evolved into national schools specializing in business administration and leadership, public administration and policy, and education.

National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

Website: http://www.unam.mx/index/en

The National University held its official opening ceremony on September 22, 1910 as part of the Centennial Celebration of Mexican Independence.It convened in the amphitheatre of the National Preparatory School which was designed by architect Samuel Chavez expressly for the event. A throng of professors, students, guests from other universities and the country’s social elites attended the inaugural festivities, which commenced at 10:30 with the arrival of President Porfirio Diaz and the University’s first Rector, Joaquín Eguía Lis.

The inaugural address was delivered by Justo Sierra, the Minister of Public Instruction, who is widely recognized as a prime mover of the University’s founding and for providing the institution’s educational vision that focused on the construction of a unified nation through scientific and cultural actions. The solemn ceremony culminated at 1:00 pm with a procession of the university community from the amphitheatre to the central offices of the newly invested institution.

We, the members of the university community, celebrate and sing the praises of the UNAM on the one-hundredth anniversary of its founding.