International Students
Konan offers a program for international students through the Konan International Exchange Centre or KIEC. This program runs from September through May for students from North America and Europe, and from January to December for students from Australia and New Zealand. Usually made up of between thirty and forty-five students, the program includes rigorous language study, Japanese Studies classes on various topics of Japanese culture, business, and society, and a homestay in which the student lives with a Japanese family. In previous years the homestay was a mandatory part of the program, however, due to increasing numbers of international students in the academic year 2008-2009, a dormitory option was made available for non-Illinois Consortium for International Studies and Programs students.
Konan offers exchange opportunities with the following universities:
- Australia
- Murdoch University
- Edith Cowan University
- Canada
- Carleton University
- University of Victoria
- France
- François Rabelais University, Tours
- Jean Moulin University Lyon 3
- Germany
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Cologne Business School, Köln
- New Zealand
- University of Waikato
- United Kingdom
- Leeds University
- United States of America
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
In addition, students from the Illinois Consortium are welcome. This includes the University of Hawaii, the University of Arizona, and the University of Pittsburgh.
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