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The Berlin Consortium for German Studies

The Berlin Consortium for German Studies makes it possible for science, social science, and humanities majors who have completed at least two years of college German (preferably three or more years) with grades of B or better and who have a 3.0 GPA to become German university students for an entire academic year or the spring semester. After a brief period of orientation and intensive language instruction, undergraduates from Columbia College, The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, General Studies, and Barnard College, along with students from other Consortium schools and visiting students, attend classes at the Freie Universität Berlin (FU). Instruction is in German. The FU offers an exceptionally wide range of courses. The natural sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences are the largest faculties. Smaller, more specialized disciplines are particularly well represented and range from religious studies and ethnology to studies in Asian culture, antiquities, art history, and musicology.

The member institutions of the Berlin Consortium are Columbia University/ Barnard College, Cornell University, the Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Pennsylvania, in association with Vassar College.

Columbia College students attending this program have the same access to the financial aid they would have if they were enrolled in classes in New York with the exception of the work-study program. Students who plan to apply should consult with the Office of Global Programs and the Department of Germanic Languages.

For additional program information, students should consult the Overseas Programs Web site. For further assistance, they may e-mail berlin@columbia.edu or call (212) 854-2559.

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