The Study Abroad Office staff will review the on-line applications during January, and you should hear whether you have been successful by the end of the month.Ĭhallenges facing Natural Sciences students You will also need to find someone to act as your referee make sure you ask them in advance. You will need to write about why you want to go abroad, what you will get out of it, why you would make a good ambassador for UCL, and what challenges you anticipate if successful. The UCL Exchange Application Form will become available on-line in November, and is due for submission in early December. You should start this process as early as you can in Term 1 of Year 2. Only when there are two Stream Rep signatures on this form will the Study Abroad Tutor for Natural Sciences (currently Dr Ali Mozaffari) countersign the document for submission.
The proposed modules should then be agreed with your Stream Rep, and signed off by them on the Study Abroad Approval Form. year 3), that you have the equivalent pre-requisites to take the course, and that you will be able to return to UCL suitably equipped to take year 4 modules. Check that your proposed modules are of the correct level (i.e. This information is not always easy to locate, but you should NOT contact the university directly yourself. This includes the Literature Project, where possible. Having researched the universities available to Natural Sciences, students should research the modules on offer at their proposed universities extremely carefully, and attempt to match modules abroad with those that they would otherwise take at UCL, for both major and minor streams. Both the hard copy of the Study Abroad Approval Form and the on-line UCL Exchange Application Form must be completed in the early part of December, and there is a lot of research for you to do before then. Natural Sciences students have recently studied abroad at the following universities:ĭuring the first term of the second year, students should attend one of the Study Abroad Information sessions (there are two dates), and the evening Study Abroad Fair. There is also the possibility that you might be offered an alternative place which is not on your list of choices. Natural Sciences students should be aware that not every applicant will be successful. You are expected to maintain a first class grade average for your second year and this is reviewed after results and examinations at the end of second year. To apply for study abroad, you must to achieve a first class grade average in your first year ( 70%+), and to be registered for the 4-year MSci programme.
Natural Sciences students are eligible to apply to spend a year abroad during their third year of the MSci programme, although places are highly competitive.
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