Study Abroad in Physics and Astronomy

Once you have found some interesting courses at the host university, you should consider the following:

• Does the course content overlap with courses you have already taken in your Physics programme? If the overlap is too significant, your application to take the course abroad will be rejected.
• Do you meet the academic prerequisites for taking the course?
• Is the course at an appropriate academic level?
• Is the course content research-based – i.e., is the lecturer an active researcher within the subject area or a closely related field? If the teaching is not research-based, your application to take the course will be rejected.
• As a Master’s student, you may be allowed to take a Bachelor’s level course if it is an advanced course at the host university and a similar course is not offered at AU.

We will check all of the above as part of the pre-approval process, but you will be doing both yourself (and us) a favour by checking it in advance. Otherwise, your application for pre-approval may be rejected.

• Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich, Switzerland
• Grenoble Alpes University, France
• University of Freiburg, Germany
• Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
• University of Leeds, United Kingdom

You can find the full list of available destinations in AU’s MoveOn database.