Benefits of Study Abroad
One of the most personally and professionally rewarding things you can do is to spend a semester studying in another country. After you graduate and start a career you will most likely have neither the time nor the money for such an adventure.
The Department of Computer Science encourages you to spend a portion of your sophomore or junior year earning CS credits at recognized institutions overseas. You will find courses that directly fill required UMD CS and IS&T requirements as well as those that cover aspects of computing not offered at UMD.
Scholarships and Financial Aid
UMD has a formal partnership agreement with several institutions guaranteeing that you can attend there while paying the UMD tuition rate. You can also use your financial aid for study abroad. For details on fees, talk to the UMD International Education Office.
The UMD Department of Computer Science will offer several competitive scholarships to provide support for study abroad students for the fall of 2004. For details contact the UMD CS Department International Programs Advisor.
Universities and Courses
You may select from a range of courses applying to your major or minor in CS or IS&T. All courses listed are taught in English. The following list applies to the 2003-2004 academic year.
See the map of Sweden for exact locations.
Jonkopping University, Sweden - School of Engineering
Course UMD credits UMD course Major Semester* Discrete Math 4 Math 3355 CS/IS&T Spring (3) Software Engineering 4 CS-4531 CS/IS&T Spring (3) Databases 4 CS-4611 CS/IS&T Fall (1) Computer Graphic Media 4 ** IS&T Fall (1) Digital Compression 4 ** IS&T Fall (2) Multimedia 4 CS-3121 IS&T Spring (4) Swedish Lang. & Cult. I 4 *** Fall (1) Swedish Lang. & Cult. II 4 *** Fall (2) University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden - Blekinge Institute of Technology (BIT)
Course UMD credits UMD course Major Semester Software Arch. 4 CS-4531 CS/IS&T Fall (1) Database Techniques 4 CS-4611 CS/IS&T Fall (1), Spr (4) Applied AI 4 CS-5541 CS Fall (2) Operating Systems 4 CS-5631 CS Fall (2) Agent Systems 4 ** CS Fall (1) Software Metrics 4 ** CS Fall (2) Mobility 4 ** CS Fall (2) * There are two semesters in Sweden, each is broken down into halves (Fall 1 and Fall 2, Spring 3 and Spring 4). Each half is called a session. If you took 4 courses in one semester you would take two in the first session and two in the last session.
** Some courses have no direct UMD equivalent but can be used to fulfill your upper division breadth requirement under the CS-4995 Special Topics course designation.
*** Language and culture courses can be used as Foreign Studies course credits at UMD. Note: many students studying abroad can easily achieve a UMD Foreign Studies minor.
Other UMD partnership universities with substantial CS programs
Curtin University of Technology
Perth, Australia, Department of Computing
Courses may be selected from those offered for the BS Degree Courses but UMD CS and IS&T equivalencies have not been established.
The University of Waikato
Hamilton City, New Zealand, Department of Computer Science
Courses may be selected from those offered for the BCMS (Bachelor of Computing and Mathematical Sciences) degrees but UMD CS and IS&T equivalencies have not been established.