Exchange Partners

Galway, University of Galway

General information

City	City: Galway
Country	Ireland {Republic}
About the University	With over 16,000 students and more than 2,200 staff, NUI Galway has a distinguished reputation for teaching and research excellence in the fields of arts, social science, and celtic studies; business, public policy and law; engineering and informatics; medicine, nursing and health sciences; and science. The Faculty of Law is comprised of full-time professors and lecturers, together with part-time teaching staff who are academics specialising in particular subject-areas or practising solicitors and barristers. There are approximately 450 students studying law to degree level. Faculty links with Universities in Europe and in the United States afford interested students the opportunity to pursue part of their law studies abroad. Students of the Faculty also participate in moot trial competitions at both national and international level, and the student law society is active in organising guest lectures and debates. Faculty members are engaged in research in a number of fields including human rights, legal theory, criminal law, commercial law and media law. The Irish Centre for Human Rights, while part of the Faculty, has its own prestigious new premises at Salmon Weir. Research projects, international conferences and guest lectures are organised under the auspices of the Centre.
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Student exchange information

Method of application at the RUG	Online application form: rug.nl/law/lep
Application deadline RUG	01 March
Available places	16 semester places
Level of courses available for exchange students	Bachelor
Main Language	English
Language of instruction	English
Language test results needed	Yes: see extra requirements for more information
Language courses available	Yes
Extra requirements	You would need to provide a proof of your English proficiency: an equivalent to a CEFR level B2 at the moment of application and C1 at the moment of departure. Students from the English taught LLB programme are exempt from this requirement.
Link (law faculty) university	View university website
Link International office	View international office website
Housing arranged	Institution Student self
Visa needed	No (unless you have a non-eu passport)
Vaccination needed	No
Financial support / Grants	More information on study and placement grants for law students can be found at the website www.rug.nl/law/lep. An Erasmus+ grant covers part of the travel and accommodation expenses involved in studying abroad. At the moment the Erasmus+ grant has been set at € 330 - € 390 per calendar month, depending on the country of your host university. This may change per academic year. Your application for an exchange period at one of the Faculty's partner universities also counts as your application for a grant. When you receive notification of a place for study abroad, you will also learn more about the Erasmus grant.

Student Reports

Galway Fall 2022.pdf (Size: 143 Kb | Create Time: 28 Sep 2023)

Galway Fall 2022-2.pdf (Size: 118 Kb | Create Time: 28 Sep 2023)

Galway Fall 2022-3.pdf (Size: 74 Kb | Create Time: 28 Sep 2023)

Galway Fall 2019.pdf (Size: 102 Kb | Create Time: 28 Sep 2023)

Galway Fall 2019-1.pdf (Size: 83 Kb | Create Time: 28 Sep 2023)

Galway Fall 2019-2.pdf (Size: 87 Kb | Create Time: 28 Sep 2023)

Galway Fall 2023.pdf (Size: 181 Kb | Create Time: 22 Jul 2024)

Galway Spring 2024.pdf (Size: 183 Kb | Create Time: 22 Jul 2024)

Galway Fall 2019-3.pdf (Size: 118 Kb | Create Time: 28 Sep 2023)

Galway Fall 2020.pdf (Size: 15 Kb | Create Time: 28 Sep 2023)

Courses

Level of courses available	Bachelor
LLB students: is a minimum of 30 ECTS available	Yes
Link available courses	View courses site

Last update (22 Jul 2024)