Graduate Study Abroad & Exchanges

The Yale Department of German has always encouraged its students to take part in the many opportunities for study and research abroad which include the DAAD program as well as other fellowships and opportunities recently arranged with overseas institutions. External funding for study abroad can thus provide a sixth year of supported study. The Graduate School has an exchange program with Freiburg, Heidelberg, and Tübingen for which all of our graduate students are eligible. Almost all of our students find their way to a German-speaking country at whatever juncture proves most useful for the completion of their degree.

Our department is affiliated with the Peter Szondi-Institut für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft at the Freie Universität in Berlin which provides our graduate students studying in Berlin with a "home base."

Exchange students come to Yale every year from a number of German institutions (the Freie Universität in Berlin, Freiburg, Heidelberg, Konstanz and Tübingen have participated) and this continues to be an important force in internationalizing the graduate experience here and in forging close trans-Atlantic ties for our students.