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Student Exchange Between Germany and the United States
In cooperation with 30 partner clubs within our umbrella association, the German-American Women’s Club Munich co-sponsors the largest German-American student exchange program in Europe, which is financed solely through private donations.
Through the initiative of the Munich club and as a token of gratitude for the help of the Americans after the war, the first two American students came to study for one year at a German university in 1957. The home universities of those two Americans responded by offering scholarships to two German students.
From those modest beginnings, a student exchange program has developed as “A Bridge Over the Ocean”, in which many more than 2600 students from Germany and the USA have participated. To date, contracts with more than 20 partner universities in the USA have been signed to regulate the reciprocal student exchange. Among them is the University of Cincinnati, a partner city of Munich. Each year 30 German students go to the USA and 25 American students come to Germany.
During the academic year 2011/2012 two students from the USA are in Munich and three students from Munich are in the USA:
- Haziel Williams from the University of Texas at Austin and Patrick Young from the University of Florida at Gainsville study German and History at the LMU in Munich.
- Thomas Ley from the TU Munich and Marc Werner from the LMU Munich study Information Systems and Business Administration at Union Graduate College in Schenectady, NY. Melanie Schweizer from the LMU Munich studies American History at the University of Delaware in Newark, NJ.
Financing (bilateral system) >>
Method of Operation and Application Procedure >>
Prerequisites for applications by German students >>
The Federation expects exchange students >>
Application Form for German Students 
Organisation: Barbara Standl • E-Mail: standl@gawc-munich.de
Grettel Calvo-Vodermayer • E-Mail: gretcal@gawc-munich.de
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