Please choose your study away program from those listed below. These programs have been previously approved for credit within the liberal arts and continue to be recommended by Williams academic departments. We keep our knowledge of programs current through student evaluations and ongoing site visits. Programs may be added or removed from this list at the office’s discretion.
Follow the links below to the program websites to research available offerings and see whether the program is suited to your specific strengths and academic needs. The list can be sorted by program and location columns. You should work closely with the faculty in the department of your intended major if you are seeking credit for any of your study away courses.
You are required to attend a Group Advising Session prior to requestsing a signature on a program approval form and prior to confirming participation with your program of choice.
Having trouble deciding on a program? It can be overwhelming! Try using our ‘choosing a program‘ handout to help narrow down your choices!
No Business program tracks, pre-professional programs or Open Campus programs will be approved.
| Program | City | Semester/Year | Country | Region |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CIEE: Arts and Sciences | Gaborone | Sem/Year | Botswana | Africa |
| American University in Cairo (AUC) | Cairo | Sem/Year | Egypt | Africa |
| SFS: Wildlife Management Studies | Arusha | Semester | Tanzania | Africa |
| IES | Rabat | Semester | Morocco | Africa |
| SIT: Migration And Transnational Identity | Rabat | Semester | Morocco | Africa |
| SIT: Multiculturalism and Human Rights | Rabat | Semester | Morocco | Africa |
| SIT: Post-Genocide Restoration and Peacebuilding | Kigali | Semester | Rwanda | Africa |
| SIT: Global Security and Religious Pluralism | Dakar | Semester | Senegal | Africa |
| University of Minnesota (MSID): International Development in Senegal | Dakar | Semester | Senegal | Africa |
| CIEE: Arts & Sciences | Cape Town | Sem/Year | South Africa | Africa |
| SIT: Multiculturalism and Human Rights | Cape Town | Semester | South Africa | Africa |
| SIT: Social and Political Transformation | Durban | Semester | South Africa | Africa |
| SIT: Community, Health and Social Policy | Durban | Semester | South Africa | Africa |
| SIT: Wildlife Conservation and Political Ecology | Arusha | Semester | Tanzania | Africa |
| SIT: Global Development Studies | Kampala | Semester | Uganda | Africa |
| IFSA: Argentine Universities | Buenos Aires | Sem/Year | Argentina | Americas |
| Harvard University: CASA Argentina | Buenos Aires | Sem/Year | Argentina | Americas |
| SIT: Social Movements and Human Rights | Buenos Aires | Sem/Year | Argentina | Americas |
| SIT: Multiculturalism, Globalization, and Social Change | Cochabamba | Semester | Bolivia | Americas |
| CET | Sao Paulo | Semester | Brazil | Americas |
| Brown University: CASA Brazil | Rio de Janeiro | Sem/Year | Brazil | Americas |
| IFSA: Chilean Universities | Valpariso | Sem/Year | Chile | Americas |
| IES: Politics, Social Justice & Language | Santiago | Sem/Year | Chile | Americas |
| SIT: Comparative Education and Social Change | Santiago | Semester | Chile | Americas |
| Harvard University: CASA Chile | Santiago | Sem/Year | Chile | Americas |
| SIT: Cultural Identity, Social Justice, and Community Development | Valparaiso | Semester | Chile | Americas |
| SIT: Public Health, Traditional Medicine, and Community Empowerment | Arica | Semester | Chile | Americas |
| SFS: Wild Patagonia: Fire and Ice | Punto Natales | Semester | Chile | Americas |
| ICADS: Institute for Central American Development Studies | San Jose | Sem/Year | Costa Rica | Americas |
| SFS: Sustainable Development Studies | Atenas | Semester | Costa Rica | Americas |
| Brown University: CASA Cuba | Havana | Semester | Cuba | Americas |
| AUSM: Mexico Solidarity Network, Cuba | Havana | Semester | Cuba | Americas |
| CIEE: Liberal Arts | Santiago de los Caballeros | Sem/Year | Dominican Republic | Americas |
| IES: Galapagos Academic Institute for Arts and Sciences | Galapagos | Sem/Year | Ecuador | Americas |
| IES: Universidad San Francisco de Quito | Quito | Sem/Year | Ecuador | Americas |
| IES: Area Studies and Language | Quito | Sem/Year | Ecuador | Americas |
| SIT: Development, Politics, and Languages | Quito | Semester | Ecuador | Americas |
| Augsburg CGEE: Migration, Globalization, and the Environment | Cuernavaca | Semester | Mexico | Americas |
| Augsburg CGEE: Liberal Arts, Language, and Social Change | Cuernavaca | Semester | Mexico | Americas |
| IFSA: Merida Universities | Merida | Sem/Year | Mexico | Americas |
| AUSM: Mexico Solidarity Network, Mexico | Various | Semester | Mexico | Americas |
| SIT: Tropical Ecology, Marine Ecosystems, and Biodiversity Conservation | Panama City | Semester | Panama | Americas |
| IFSA: Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru | Lima | Semester | Peru | Americas |
| SIT: Indigenous Peoples and Globalization | Cuzco | Semester | Peru | Americas |
| Williams-Mystic: Maritime Studies Program | Mystic, CT | Semester | United States | Americas |
| Spelman College: Guest Student Program | Atlanta, GA | Semester | United States | Americas |
| Columbia University: Visiting Student Program | New York, NY | Semester | United States | Americas |
| Harvard University: Visiting Student Program | Boston, MA | Semester | United States | Americas |
| Howard University: Visiting Student Program | Washington, DC | Semester | United States | Americas |
| American University: Washington Semester | Washington, DC | Semester | United States | Americas |
| National Theatre Institute (NTI) | New York, NY | Semester | United States | Americas |
| Earlham College: Border Studies | Tucson, AZ | Semester | United States | Americas |
| SFS: Marine Resource Studies | Cockburn Harbor | Semester | Turks and Caicos Islands | Americas |
| Wheaton in Bhutan | Bhutan | Semester | Bhutan | Asia |
| SFS: Himalayan Studies | Bhutan | Semester | Bhutan | Asia |
| SFS: Conservation, Ethics, and Environmental Change | Siem Reap | Semester | Cambodia | Asia |
| Hamilton College / Associated Colleges in China | Beijing | Sem/Year | China | Asia |
| CET: Intensive Language | Beijing | Sem/Year | China | Asia |
| CET: Chinese Language | Harbin | Sem/Year | China | Asia |
| CET: Chinese Studies | Shanghai | Sem/Year | China | Asia |
| Middlebury | Hangzhou | Sem/Year | China | Asia |
| Middlebury | Kunming | Sem/Year | China | Asia |
| CIEE: Intensive Chinese Language and Culture | Nanjing | Sem/Year | China | Asia |
| SIT: Health, Environment, and Traditional Chinese Medicine | Kunming | Semester | China | Asia |
| Chinese University of Hong Kong | Hong Kong | Sem/Year | Hong Kong | Asia |
| Syracuse University | Hong Kong | Sem/Year | Hong Kong | Asia |
| IFSA/Alliance: Contemporary India | Pune | Sem/Year | India | Asia |
| Carleton: Buddhist Studies | Bodh Gaya | Fall | India | Asia |
| SIT: Public Health, Gender, and Community Action | New Delhi | Semester | India | Asia |
| SIT: Sustainable Development and Social Change | Jaipur | Semester | India | Asia |
| SIT: Arts, Religion, and Social Change | Bali | Semester | Indonesia | Asia |
| Associated Kyoto Program (AKP) | Kyoto | Sem/Year | Japan | Asia |
| CIEE: Arts and Sciences | Tokyo | Sem/Year | Japan | Asia |
| Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies (KCJS) | Kyoto | Sem/Year | Japan | Asia |
| Japan Study Program at Waseda University/Earlham | Tokyo | Spring/Year | Japan | Asia |
| IES: Nanzan University | Nagoya | Sem/Year | Japan | Asia |
| IES: Language and Culture | Tokyo | Sem/Year | Japan | Asia |
| EWHA Women’s University | Seoul | Sem/Year | South Korea | Asia |
| CIEE: Arts and Sciences | Seoul | Sem/Year | South Korea | Asia |
| School of Russian and Asian Studies (SRAS) | Bishkek | Sem/Year | Kyrgyzstan | Asia |
| SIT: Nomadism, Geopolitics, and the Environment | Ulaanbaatar | Semester | Mongolia | Asia |
| SIT: Tibetan Studies-Himalayan People | Kathmandu | Semester | Nepal | Asia |
| SIT: Development and Social Change | Kathmandu | Semester | Nepal | Asia |
| Yale/NUS (National University of Singapore) | Singapore | Sem/Year | Singapore | Asia |
| CIEE: Intensive Chinese Language and Culture | Taipei | Sem/Year | Taiwan | Asia |
| International Chinese Language Program (ICLP) | Taipei | Year | Taiwan | Asia |
| CIEE: Development and Globalization | Khon Khaen | Semester | Thailand | Asia |
| SIT: Culture, Social Change, and Development | Ho Chi Minh City | Semester | Vietnam | Asia |
| IES: European Society and Culture | Vienna | Sem/Year | Austria | Europe |
| IES: Music | Vienna | Sem/Year | Austria | Europe |
| University of Graz | Graz | Year | Austria | Europe |
| IFE | Brussels | Semester | Belgium | Europe |
| CET | Prague | Semester | Czech Republic | Europe |
| CIEE: Central European Studies | Prague | Sem/Year | Czech Republic | Europe |
| SIT: Peace and Conflict Studies in the Balkans | Belgrade | Semester | Serbia | Europe |
| Prague Film School | Prague | Sem/Year | Czech Republic | Europe |
| DIS: Study Abroad in Scandinavia | Copenhagen | Sem/Year | Denmark | Europe |
| Advanced Studies in England (ASE) | Bath/Oxford | Sem/Year | England U.K. | Europe |
| Arcadia: Goldsmiths – University of London | London | Sem/Year | England U.K. | Europe |
| Arcadia: University of Manchester | Manchester | Sem/Year | England U.K. | Europe |
| IFSA: SOAS University of London | London | Sem/Year | England U.K. | Europe |
| IFSA: King’s College | London | Sem/Year | England U.K. | Europe |
| IFSA: University College London (UCL) | London | Sem/Year | England U.K. | Europe |
| IFSA: Queen Mary | London | Sem/Year | England U.K. | Europe |
| IES: Study London | London | Sem/Year | England U.K. | Europe |
| London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) | London | Semester | England U.K. | Europe |
| London School of Economics (LSE) | London | Year | England U.K. | Europe |
| Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford (WEPO) | Oxford | Year | England U.K. | Europe |
| Trinity Laban Conservatory of Music and Dance | London | Semester | England U.K. | Europe |
| Boston University: Grenoble French Studies | Grenoble | Sem/Year | France | Europe |
| Center for University Programs Abroad (CUPA) | Paris | Sem/Year | France | Europe |
| Hamilton College in Paris | Paris | Sem/Year | France | Europe |
| IFE | Paris | Semester | France | Europe |
| IFE | Strasbourg | Semester | France | Europe |
| Syracuse University | Strasbourg | Sem/Year | France | Europe |
| Middlebury | Bordeaux | Sem/Year | France | Europe |
| Middlebury | Paris | Sem/Year | France | Europe |
| Mount Holyoke in Montpellier | Montpellier | Sem/Year | France | Europe |
| Sweet Briar College: JYF in Paris | Paris | Sem/Year | France | Europe |
| Wellesley-in-Aix | Aix-en-Provence | Spring/Year | France | Europe |
| Berlin Consortium for German Studies (BCGS) | Berlin | Spring/Year | Germany | Europe |
| IES: Language and Area Studies | Berlin | Spring/Year | Germany | Europe |
| IES: Metropolitan Studies | Berlin | Semester | Germany | Europe |
| IES: European Union | Freiburg | Semester | Germany | Europe |
| Middlebury | Berlin, Mainz | Year | Germany | Europe |
| University of Regensburg | Regensburg | Year | Germany | Europe |
| Smith in Hamburg | Hamburg | Year | Germany | Europe |
| College Year in Athens | Athens | Sem/Year | Greece | Europe |
| AIT | Budapest | Sem/Year | Hungary | Europe |
| Budapest Semesters in Mathematics | Budapest | Sem/Year | Hungary | Europe |
| Center for Ecological Living and Learning (CELL) | Sólheimar | Semester | Iceland | Europe |
| Arcadia: National University of Ireland | Galway | Sem/Year | Ireland | Europe |
| Arcadia: Trinity College | Dublin | Sem/Year | Ireland | Europe |
| Arcadia: University College Dublin | Dublin | Sem/Year | Ireland | Europe |
| IES: Irish Studies | Dublin | Sem/Year | Ireland | Europe |
| IES: Dublin Writer’s Program | Dublin | Sem/Year | Ireland | Europe |
| IES: Gaiety School of Acting | Dublin | Semester | Ireland | Europe |
| Accademia Dell’Arte | Arezzo | Semester | Italy | Europe |
| Arcadia: Umbra Institute | Perugia | Sem/Year | Italy | Europe |
| Arcadia: Roma Tre | Rome | Sem/Year | Italy | Europe |
| Brown in Bologna | Bologna | Sem/Year | Italy | Europe |
| Cornell in Rome | Rome | Sem/Year | Italy | Europe |
| IES: Music – Tradition and Innovation | Milan | Sem/Year | Italy | Europe |
| IES: Italy Today | Milan | Sem/Year | Italy | Europe |
| IES | Rome | Sem/Year | Italy | Europe |
| Intercollegiate Center Classical Studies (ICCS) | Rome | Semester | Italy | Europe |
| ISI: Florence | Florence | Sem/Year | Italy | Europe |
| Georgetown in Florence | Florence | Semester | Italy | Europe |
| Studio Art Centers International (SACI) | Florence | Sem/Year | Italy | Europe |
| Siena School for Liberal Arts | Siena | Sem/Year | Italy | Europe |
| Siena Art Institute | Siena | Sem/Year | Italy | Europe |
| Siena Italian Studies | Siena | Sem/Year | Italy | Europe |
| Syracuse University | Florence | Sem/Year | Italy | Europe |
| Trinity College in Rome | Rome | Sem/Year | Italy | Europe |
| CIEE: Social Sciences and Humanities | Amsterdam | Sem/Year | Netherlands | Europe |
| IES: Psychology and Sciences | Amsterdam | Sem/Year | Netherlands | Europe |
| IES: Social Sciences and Humanities | Amsterdam | Sem/Year | Netherlands | Europe |
| CIEE: Language and Culture | Lisbon | Sem/Year | Portugal | Europe |
| IFSA: University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh | Sem/Year | Scotland U.K. | Europe |
| IFSA: University of St. Andrews | St. Andrews | Sem/Year | Scotland U.K. | Europe |
| Arcadia | Barcelona | Sem/Year | Spain | Europe |
| Arcadia | Granada | Sem/Year | Spain | Europe |
| Brethren College Abroad (BCA) | Barcelona | Sem/Year | Spain | Europe |
| Brown University: CASA Barcelona | Barcelona | Sem/Year | Spain | Europe |
| CIEE: Liberal Arts | Barcelona | Sem/Year | Spain | Europe |
| CIEE: Economics and Culture | Barcelona | Sem/Year | Spain | Europe |
| CIEE: Language and Culture | Barcelona | Sem/Year | Spain | Europe |
| CIEE: Advanced Liberal Arts | Seville | Sem/Year | Spain | Europe |
| Duke in Madrid | Madrid | Sem/Year | Spain | Europe |
| Hamilton College in Madrid | Madrid | Sem/Year | Spain | Europe |
| IES: Granada | Granada | Sem/Year | Spain | Europe |
| IES: Language and Area Studies | Madrid | Sem/Year | Spain | Europe |
| IES: Advanced Language Immersion | Salamanca | Sem/Year | Spain | Europe |
| Middlebury | Madrid | Sem/Year | Spain | Europe |
| Syracuse University | Madrid | Sem/Year | Spain | Europe |
| University of Virginia in Valencia | Valencia | Sem/Year | Spain | Europe |
| PRESHCO | Cordoba | Sem/Year | Spain | Europe |
| DIS: Study Abroad in Scandinavia | Stockholm | Sem/Year | Sweden | Europe |
| The Swedish Progam | Stockholm | Sem/Year | Sweden | Europe |
| ETH Zurich | Zurich | Sem/Year | Switzerland | Europe |
| SIT: Global Health and Development Policy | Geneva | Semester | Switzerland | Europe |
| SIT: International Relations and Multicultural Diplomacy | Geneva | Semester | Switzerland | Europe |
| Boston University / Geneva Physics Program | Geneva | Semester | Switzerland | Europe |
| Middlebury | Moscow, Irkutsk, Yaroslavl | Sem/Year | Russia | Europe |
| National Theatre Institute (NTI) | Moscow | Semester | Russia | Europe |
| Bard / Smolny | St. Petersburg | Sem/Year | Russia | Europe |
| School for Russian and Area Studies (SRAS) | St. Petersburg | Sem/Year | Russia | Europe |
| University of Haifa | Haifa | Sem/Year | Israel | Middle East |
| Hebrew University | Jerusalem | Spring/Year | Israel | Middle East |
| Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv | Sem/Year | Israel | Middle East |
| CET: Intensive Arabic Language | Amman | Sem/Year | Jordan | Middle East |
| Middlebury | Amman | Sem/Year | Jordan | Middle East |
| SIT: Geopolitics, Int’l Relations and the Future of the Middle East | Amman | Semester | Jordan | Middle East |
| SIT: Refugees, Health, and Humanitarian Action | Amman | Semester | Jordan | Middle East |
| American University of Beirut | Beirut | Sem/Year | Lebanon | Middle East |
| IFSA: University of Melbourne | Melbourne | Sem/Year | Australia | Oceania |
| IFSA: University of New South Wales | Sydney | Sem/Year | Australia | Oceania |
| IFSA: University of Sydney | Sydney | Sem/Year | Australia | Oceania |
| SFS: Rainforest Studies | Queensland | Semester | Australia | Oceania |
| SIT: Sustainability and Environmental Action | Byron Bay | Semester | Australia | Oceania |
| SIT: Rainforest, Reef, and Cultural Ecology | Cairns | Semester | Australia | Oceania |
| SIT: Climate Change and the Arctic | Isafjordour | Sem/Year | Iceland, Greenland | Oceania |
| Arcadia: University of Otago | Dunedin | Sem/Year | New Zealand | Oceania |
| Arcadia: Victoria University of Wellington | Wellington | Sem/Year | New Zealand | Oceania |
| Frontiers Abroad | Christchurch, Auckland | Semester | New Zealand | Oceania |
| IES: University of Auckland | Auckland | Sem/Year | New Zealand | Oceania |
| IES: University of Canterbury | Christchurch | Sem/Year | New Zealand | Oceania |
| Carleton: Women and Gender Studies | Europe | Fall | World | Multiple Country Program |
| IHP Human Rights: Movements, Power, and Resistance | Various | Semester | World | Multiple Country Program |
| IHP Rethinking Food Security: Agriculture, Sustainability, and Justice | Various | Fall | World | Multiple Country Program |
| IHP Cities in the 21st Century (Fall, Spring) | Various | Semester | World | Multiple Country Program |
| IHP Health and Community: Globalization, Culture and Care (Fall 1, Fall 2, Spring 1, Spring 2) | Various | Semester | World | Multiple Country Program |
| IHP Climate Change: The Politics of Food, Water, and Energy | Various | Semester | World | Multiple Country Program |
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