Northwestern and the United Kingdom: International Relations

Students
Partnerships
Partnership Highlight
Units and Groups
Alumni
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Northwestern offers partnerships with several prestigious universities in the United Kingdom, from Edinburgh to London. In addition, many alumni live in the United Kingdom, deepening our connections across the pond.

Students

Northwestern enjoys a strong relationship with the United Kingdom—every year, we send many students to learn at some of its finest universities, and the UK in turn sends some of its best and brightest students.

64 students from the UK at Northwestern:
35 Undergraduate
13 Masters
16 Doctoral

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

73 Northwestern students in the UK:
61 Undergraduate
12 Graduate

Partnerships

Partner Institution	Partner Type & Sponsor
King's College London	Graduate Student Exchange > Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
London Business School	Graduate Student Exchange > Kellogg School of Management
London School of Economics and Political Science	Graduate Student Exchange > Kellogg School of Management
University College London	Undergraduate Student Exchange > Global Learning Office
University of Edinburgh: Business School	Graduate Student Exchange > Kellogg School of Management
University of Edinburgh	Research > Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
University of Leeds	Research > McCormick School of Engineering
University of the West of England, Bristol	Research > Office for Research

Partnership Highlight

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

For the last three years, the American Music Theatre Project (housed in the School of Communication) has partnered with the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland to premiere two original devised theatre works at Edinburgh Festival Fringe--the largest festival of its kind in the world. Northwestern and Conservatoire students perform in the works over the course of the monthlong festival.

Units and Groups

British Studies Graduate Cluster

The British Studies Cluster focuses on Britain’s former empire and its ongoing Commonwealth of Nations. With thriving graduate programs in Art History, Comparative Literary Studies, Economics, English, History, Musicology, Political Science, Sociology, and Theatre and Drama, Northwestern offers a vibrant interdisciplinary community of scholars working on Britain and its imperial past.

More here

Alumni

1,000+Northwestern alumni are based in the UK.

Two-thirds are located in London.

The NU Club of the United Kingdom and the Kellogg Alumni Club of London offer social and networking opportunities to keep alumni connected to Northwestern and fellow alumni in the UK. Other ways to get and stay connected can be found here.

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Download the Northwestern and the UK Brief — a compressed version of the information featured on this page.

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Due to the irregularities in student mobility because of the COVID-19 pandemic, this webpage contains data from the 2019 academic year, the last full year prior to the imposed travel restrictions. All other information is up-to-date as of September 2021. For questions or comments about the information listed here, please contact Janka Pieper, Director of Communications.