In an exciting new partnership, Irish students can spend an entire two years in an American college.
Today Trinity College announced the partnership with Columbia University to allow students to undertake a new partnership. Students can spend two years doing their arts and humanities degree in each city, one of the first international partnerships of its kind.
Students can graduate from either Trinity College or Columbia University as part of the new project. They will spend their first two years at Trinity, studying one of four areas — English Studies, European Studies, History, or Middle Eastern and European Languages and Cultures. They will then go on to study at Columbia for their second two years, completing a core curriculum and several majors.
The President of Trinity College Dublin believes the move is a step in the right direction for a globalised world:
This is a historic day for us, partnering with Columbia University, one of America’s leading universities. Trinity has produced some of the world’s great minds across the arts and humanities, including the Nobel Laureate, Samuel Beckett, and more recently the Booker Prize winner, Anne Enright... Together, both institutions will draw on both the traditional and innovative, encouraging students to challenge themselves and develop an understanding of an increasingly globalised world.These Dual BA Programmes offer a truly international educational experience for our students.
The Executive Vice President of Arts and Sciences at Columbia University, Professor David Madigan said:
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This new Dual BA Programme gives our students the opportunity to be exposed to ideas, literature, language, and culture through immersion into two of the best undergraduate programmes in the world. Trinity is a world-class university with many international partnerships and a vibrant and talented student body, but we at Columbia University are thrilled to be its first partner in an undergraduate Dual BA programme...
Famous alumni from Columbia include Barack Obama, Katie Holmes, Jake Gyllenhaal and Joseph Gorden-Levitt. To find out more about the programme and how you can get involved click here.
