Study in Australia and New Zealand
The University of Texas at Austin's Education Abroad offers graduate and undergraduate students myriad opportunities to study in Australia or New Zealand. Students may choose from programs at universities across both countries, including those listed below.
Most of the programs listed below are exchanges. On an exchange you stay enrolled at UT Austin and pay UT tuition, and you spend a semester at an Australian or New Zealand university taking its courses alongside its own students. No UT faculty member travels with you. The credit counts as in-residence, so the semester does not interrupt your degree plan, and Texas Global charges an application fee and an exchange fee on top of tuition.
Three of the listings work differently. The May Term abroad on the politics of protecting the Great Barrier Reef is faculty-led: a University of Texas course, taught by a UT instructor, with a group of UT students who travel together. Global Career Launch in Australia is an internship program run through Texas Global. The University of Sydney summer program is an affiliate program, operated by an outside provider rather than by UT.
- To learn more about specific programs, search by country here.
- To search for scholarships, including awards that support study abroad, use LASSO, the university’s scholarship system.
- To learn about UT's program in Sydney, see here.
Students interested in studying in Australia can benefit from using OzStudies. OzStudies offers useful information about studying, living and working in Australia and acts as a social network connecting students from all over the world.
Curriculum Integration Program
Many students are initially turned away from study abroad programs because they find them to be hard to commit to, too expensive, or that the programs would set them back from their four-year graduation plan, but the University of Texas' innovative curriculum integration approach to studying abroad addresses all these issues.
The study abroad department has created major specific booklets that help guide students toward a path of studying abroad. The booklets provide a great start for students who may never have thought studying abroad was possible financially or for their major. Most of the programs listed are exchange programs, which means that students abroad still pay their home tuition price. This makes studying abroad more affordable than other programs offered. Students can also clearly see which courses will be able to work for them abroad and still fit into their four-year degree plan. Additionally, on the My Credit Abroad Database, students can check exactly how courses they take abroad will transfer back to the University of Texas.
Education Abroad has worked closely with Australian universities to profile many different universities in order to support exchange programs between them and the University of Texas and to come up with courses in Australia that match up to UT courses. UT has become the second university in the United States for sending students abroad. In addition, the number of students going to Australia has doubled since 2011.
Programs currently available are listed below
| Country | Program Name | Application Type |
Semesters | Instruction Languages | Open To |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Australia | AGSM, SYDNEY | Exchange | Spring | English | MBA |
| Australia | AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY | Exchange | Spring and Fall | English | ALL |
| Australia | BOND UNIVERSITY | Exchange | Fall | English | LAW |
| Australia | FLINDERS UNIVERSITY | Exchange | Spring and Fall | English | ALL |
| Australia | GLOBAL CAREER LAUNCH - AUSTRALIA WITH DR. FREEMAN | ISR | English | ALL | |
| Australia | MAY TERM ABROAD: THE POLITICS OF PROTECTING THE GREAT BARRIER REEF | Faculty Led | May term | English | ALL |
| Australia | MELBOURNE BUSINESS SCHOOL | Exchange | Spring and Fall | English | MBA |
| Australia | UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE | Exchange | Spring and Fall | English | ALL, ENG and LAW |
| Australia | UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES | Exchange | Spring and Fall | English | ALL, BBA, LAW and ENG |
| Australia | UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND | Exchange | Spring and Fall | English | ALL and ENG |
| Australia | UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY | Exchange | Spring, Summer Whole, Fall and Year | English | ALL, LAW and ENG |
| Australia | UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY SUMMER DIRECT ENROLL | Affiliate | Summer Whole | English | ALL |
| Australia | UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SYDNEY | Exchange | Spring and Fall | English | ALL |
| Australia | UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA | Exchange | Spring and Fall | English | ALL and ENG |
| New Zealand | UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO | Exchange | Spring and Fall | Various | ALL and BBA |
| New Zealand | VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON | Exchange | Spring and Fall | Various | ALL and ENG |