International partnerships
Within U.S. higher education, traditional international partnerships focused on a specific faculty member’s interests. However, VCU has taken a new approach to international collaborations, comprised of student and faculty exchanges, as well as a focus on teaching and research collaborations.
These 14 partnerships are designed to be developed as long-term relationships between VCU and partnership faculty and their academic units through join and dual academic programs, as well as research projects. All partnerships are coordinated and managed through the Office of International Education.
To learn more, contact the office at abroad@vcu.edu or (804) 827-7882 to set up an appointment.
Partnership universities
The universities chosen were based not only on longtime existing active collaborations with VCU, but also on matching the quality and diversity of parallel academic and research programs found at VCU and its international partners institutions. Like VCU, a number of our partnership universities have been ranked among the top 500 universities in the world.
As part of its initiative to collaborate with international institutions, VCU has established partnerships with the following universities:
- University of Messina – Messina, Italy
- University of Córdoba – Córdoba, Spain
- Fudan University – Shanghai, China
- Beijing Foreign Studies University – Beijing, China
- University of the West of England – Bristol, U.K.
- Oxford University, Harris Manchester College – Oxford, U.K.
- University of São Paulo – São Paulo, Brazil
- St. Petersburg State University – St. Petersburg, Russia
- University of Guadalajara – Guadalajara, Mexico
- University of KwaZulu-Natal – Durban, South Africa
- Curtin University of Technology – Perth, Australia
- Indian Institute of Technology – Kharagpur, India
- Post-Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research – Chandiargh, India
- The Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Hadassah Medical Center
- Moscow State University – Moscow, Russia
