Study Abroad at Birkbeck, University of London, England

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London
30-50
2.8 (4.0 scale)
Fall semester (Sept-Dec)
Spring semester (Jan-June)
April 15 for fall; October 15 for spring
Emily Koehler

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What Birkbeck has to offer
• An exciting curriculum developed especially for American students and based at a world-class teaching and research institution
• Classes are small, interactive and academically challenging
• Hundreds of hands-on internships cater to students’ interests and abilities
• Students are taught in Gordon Square, once occupied by the novelist Virginia Woolf and the economist John Maynard Keynes
• Part of the University of London, so students can use the University of London Union's excellent facilities
• Opportunities to interact with British and other international students
• Set in the Bloomsbury area of central London, the hub of the University of London federation and famous for its literary, intellectual and artistic history
• Close to Covent Garden shopping and Soho’s great nightlife

Housing
• Housing is with other IFSA-Butler students in IFSA-Butler-operated housing in Notting Hill Gate, an easy commute to class and 10 minutes from the West End
• Students purchase or prepare their own meals

Academics
• Program courses are semester-length versions of courses that are part of the regular Birkbeck curriculum
• Lecturers are Birkbeck faculty members or drawn from other colleges of the University of London
• Most courses take advantage of London as a “living laboratory”
• Students take four courses per semester or an internship and three courses