Northwestern and France

Partnerships
Students
Units and Groups
Alumni

Northwestern University offers its students and faculty highly innovative educational and research opportunities in France. Our programs in France serve our university community at multiple levels, undergraduate, graduate, and faculty, and in all scholarly fields, from the Humanities to the Natural Sciences and Management Studies.

Partnerships

Northwestern's partnerships with France’s most renowned universities enable individual faculty to network with their French colleagues, and allow students, both graduate and undergraduate, to broaden their Northwestern education abroad.

Partner Institution	Partner Type & Sponsor
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales	Dual Degree > The Graduate School Faculty Exchange > The Graduate School
École Normale Supérieure de Paris	Graduate Student Exchange > The Graduate School Faculty Exchange > The Graduate School Dual Degree > The Graduate School
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon	Faculty Exchange > The Graduate School Graduate Student Exchange > The Graduate School
École Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales	Graduate Student Exchange > Kellogg School of Management
HEC-ISA School of Management	Graduate Student Exchange > Kellogg School of Management
INSEAD	Graduate Student Exchange > Kellogg School of Management
Sciences Po	Undergraduate Student Exchange > Global Learning Office Customized Study Abroad Program: European Union Studies > Global Learning Office Customized Study Abroad Program: Public Health in Europe > Global Learning Office Dual Degree > The Graduate School Faculty Exchange > The Graduate School Graduate Student Exchange > Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications
Sciences Po: École de Droit	Graduate Student Exchange > Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Dual Degree > Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Université de Pau et Des Pays de l'Adour	Research > McCormick School of Engineering
Université de Strasbourg- Nouveau Hôpital Civil	Clinical Rotation > Feinberg School of Medicine
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3	Undergraduate Student Exchange > Global Learning Office Customized Study Abroad Program: Art, Literature, and Contemporary European Thought > Global Learning Office Dual Degree > The Graduate School

Students

*Scholars category includes visiting faculty, researchers, post-doctoral fellows and lecturers

71 students and scholars from France at Northwestern

5 Undergraduate
10 Masters
12 Doctoral
44 Scholars*

For historical data visit the Office of International Student and Scholar Services website.

150 Northwestern students in France:

98 Undergraduate
52 Graduate

Units and Groups

Northwestern units dedicated to France, French Studies, or programs in France include:

The Department of French and Italian

The Department of French offers a major and minor for undergraduates, a four-year BA/MA program in French, and a PhD Program in French and Francophone Studies.

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French Interdisciplinary Group (FIG)

The French Interdisciplinary Group (FIG) is a scholarly group that facilitates long-term intellectual exchanges and collaborations between Northwestern faculty, graduate students and undergraduates in all fields, and their counterparts at leading French institutions for higher education.

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Paris Program in Critical Theory

The Northwestern Paris Program in Critical Theory affords up to five highly qualified advanced graduate students from a wide variety of disciplines a unique opportunity to spend one year in Paris familiarizing themselves with French and European theoretical research.

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Modern European History: France and Global Francophonie

This group of Historians at Northwestern works in fields related to the domestic, colonial, and post-colonial history of France and of the former French colonies and zones of influence in the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. At Northwestern, we have a particular focus on the era of the Enlightenment, the Revolution and its aftermath, and on twentieth-century history of France and its colonies.

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Alumni

~800

Northwestern alumni are based in France.
More than half are located in the capital, Paris.

The NU-Kellogg Club of France offers social and networking opportunities to keep alumni connected to Northwestern and fellow alumni in France. Other ways to get and stay connected can be found here.

This page features data from the 2024-2025 academic year. For questions about the information listed here, please contact the Office of International Relations.

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