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Erasmus and Study Abroad (Undergraduate)

Our School facilitates Erasmus and Study Abroad opportunites for a number of our Junior Sophister (3rd yr) undergraduate students. Applications are made in Senior Freshman (2nd) year to spend some/all of their Junior Sophister year abroad.

Only students who obtain at least a 2:1 average in Senior Freshman year will be permitted to participate in the programme. In the event of more candidate applications than places, examination results will be used to identify successful applicants.

Details for each of our two disciplines, Genetics and Microbiology are below and you can read student testimonials here.

JS Genetics and Human Genetics Students

Students interested on a student exchange should contact the Genetics Department Office (genetics@tcd.ie) if their first moderatorship choice is Genetics or Human Genetics. Students will only be allowed to go on an exchange if they are expected to obtain a high 2.1 overall grade on their 2nd year (SF) passing all modules on first attempt. Students should realise that allowing a provisional exchange is dependent on achieving the above mentioned grade on a first attempt. A full year exchange will be considered only for students achieving a first overall grade on their first attempt.

Exchanges with other universities are organised by students and once the exchange information is provided it will be evaluated by the School of Genetics and Microbiology. A committee will evaluate the proposal to make sure essential content is provided, the level of the modules is adequate and all proposed modules can be attended. If approved, it will be formalised on an exchange student declaration form.

Before the exchange approval the following information will have to be provided:

A signed Study Abroad Declaration
A full list of available modules that are being considered
Matching of international modules to Genetics/Human Genetics core modules (Genetics Department handbooks link)
Preferred modules should be highlighted for evaluation
Information on the module content
ECTS or ECTS equivalence for each module (some equivalence tables below)
Clear information of the course/year structure abroad*:
(i) Semester the module is taught
(ii) What modules are core modules and which are optional
(iii) Whether modules belong to different years (timetabling information will be required)

* As much information as possible, including timetabling information, if possible, will have to be provided to make sure that the proposed modules can actually be taken. Timetabling information is mandatory if modules belong to different years of a course.

We do not currently have pre-arranged agreements with universities in the Coimbra group, but some such as the University of Groningen, Netherlands, have a program that is quite compatible with Genetics and Human Genetics for an Erasmus exchange and lectures are in English. See Coimbra group members here. Your first point of contact would be the person listed on the link. However, specific information about modules, timetabling etc may require you to contact specific departments within each university.

For further queries on Genetics/Human Genetics exchange, please contact our Director of Undergraduate Education, Prof. Juan Pablo Labrador.

JS Microbiology Students

The Department of Microbiology has an agreement with Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal, whereby there is an opportunity for two Microbiology students to take Semester 2 of their Junior Sophister year there. Students are chosen based on their Senior Freshman results.

Outside of these two places, exchanges with other universities are organised by students (see above). When the exchange information is provided to our Director of Global Engagement, Prof. Siobhán O'Brien, a committee will evaluate the proposal to make sure essential content is provided, the level of the modules is adequate and all proposed modules can be attended.

For further queries on Microbiology exchange, please contact our Director of Global Engagement, Prof. Siobhán O'Brien.