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Studying abroad in academic year 2024/25

Studying abroad in academic year 2025/26

Studying abroad in academic year 2024/25

If you are going abroad in spring 2025, you should make sure you have either attended the live online pre-departure briefing that took place in December 2024, or viewed the video which has been sent to you by e-mail. For a summary, please refer to the slides from the pre-departure briefing for Semester 2 outgoing students. Note that you MUST complete a Mobility Assessment before you go abroad. You can find information about this towards the end of the pre-departure briefing and in the video which has been sent to you.

Useful documents:

Guide to Course Selection & Learning Agreements

Learning Agreement - Frequently Asked Questions

Creating your OLA account
Completing your OLA (Online Learning Agreement)
Making Changes to your OLA

Learning Agreement for CASSCS students - for Erasmus students only - this is a Word version, for cases where it's not possible to use the Online Learning Agreement (OLA)

International Exchange Learning Agreement (only for students going on non-Erasmus mobility to the United States, Hong Kong, etc)

You can view the slides from the pre-departure briefing for CASSCS students that took place in August.

Travel insurance

You will be required to purchase travel insurance before going on mobility. Please make sure to read the University of Galway's Insurance Recommendations for Students on Mobility. You may refer also to the Undergraduate Travel Toolkit.

Your safety while abroad

Safety Advice for your international study visit

Costs

An important consideration for anyone planning to study abroad is finance. The International Office website has some useful information on Financial Planning for Study Abroad, including a very helpful document showing the estimated costs for non-EU destinations.

Studying abroad in academic year 2025/26

Information sessions for outbound students
Information about partner universities
Financial planning
Planning your studies - information about course selection, learning agreements, etc

You can view the slides from the Study Abroad Preparation Meeting that was held on 26/03/25 and 01/04/25. Aimed at students of the College of Arts who will commence study abroad in autumn 2025, this event was part 1 of your study abroad preparations, and it covered topics like the application to the host university, accommodation, academic planning and the learning agreement, financial planning, and insurance. The information session also included useful hints and advice.

There will be an online pre-departure session in August (date to be announced) to help you with your final preparations for moving abroad. It will include a pre-departure checklist, and we will look in more detail at topics like insurance, culture shock, personal safety, and getting the most out of the study abroad experience. It will also deal with the Mobility Assessment (risk assessment) that all students will have to complete before departure. There will be tips and advice from students who were abroad previously.

Partner university information
Fact sheets for many of our partner universities are available on our Destinations page. This page is updated when new fact sheets are sent to us by partner universities.

Financial planning
An important consideration for anyone planning to study abroad is finance. The Global Galway website has some useful information on Financial Planning for Study Abroad, including a very helpful document showing the estimated costs for non-EU destinations.