France - UPV Montpellier III Exchange Program 447

Fall, Spring, Full Year
Montpellier, France (Map)

Geneseo's program at the Université de Montpellier III - Paul Valéry enables undergraduate students to study in France for the academic year or a semester, while paying SUNY tuition for the credits accrued abroad.  In exchange, Geneseo receives students from UPV Montpellier to study and tutor language and conversation at SUNY Geneseo.

Montpellier is the capital of the region known as Languedoc-Roussillon located in the south of France.  Once the capital of a formidable autonomous state, the city now boasts the oldest medical school in Europe.  Montpellier has three universities totaling 50,000 students.  It frequently hosts international dance and music festivals.  Despite a fast-growing population of 300,000, Montpellier has been awarded prizes for its quality of life.

It is a mere six miles from the Mediterranean Sea and is close to Barcelona, the economic capital of Spain.  Nearby are extensive, fine sandy beaches, the wild Camargue, the Cévennes Mountains, the Pyrenees and Spain.  By plane, Paris is 70 minutes away; London is 95 minutes away; and Barcelona a short 50 minutes.

Candidates to study in Montpellier are normally French majors or minors at the advanced level.  If not, they are required to have a solid foundation in French and thus be prepared to enroll in university courses with native students on site.  Students are eligible to enroll in any course offered by the Université de Montpellier, provided they are sufficiently competent, and may thus tailor their academic schedule to fit the requirements of their majors or minors at Geneseo, e.g. language, international relations, fine arts, and political science.  All students take a placement examination upon arrival and those whose language skills require remediation are able to take classes at the language institute affiliated with the university. 

Applicants with a disciplinary record or pending disciplinary hearings should alert the Study Abroad Office.

Program Dates:

Spring 2024:
Arrival Date: January 23
International Student Orientation: TBD
Finalize Registration: 
Beginning of classes: January 29
Break: February 27- March 3
Break: April 24-28
Exams: May 2-5
Retake session for Spring semester:

Classes end: May 17

Fall 2025 Dates : 

Coming soon

 

 

This exchange program is geared towards intermediate to advanced level French students. Students who attend this program will take university classes at the UPV Montpellier III.

The University is one of the oldest in Europe, founded by Pope Nicholas IV on October 26, 1289.  Eighty percent of all French students seeking tertiary education are registered in the 3 universities of Montpellier.  They include schools of engineering and trade, the international complex Agropolis, ancillary medical and social schools, and the school of art and architecture.  Many laboritories and research centers of all disciplines (140 in the three universities) accommodate the students.

Support Courses (Cours RI) can be found here: https://www.univ-montp3.fr/fr/programmes-anglophones (but also a lot of information concerning our program).

Cours intégrés: Read "6- How to find a course?" and then to look at the different department web pages: https://www.univ-montp3.fr/fr/organisation/ufr-institut-et-%C3%A9coles-doctorales.

 

Follow this link to view the Grade-Credit Conversion Chart: https://www.geneseo.edu/study_abroad/forms-and-downloads for courses taken on this program.
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Students live in university housing, which they will arrange on their own with the help of the International Student Office at Montpellier.  For more information on housing, please visit Montpellier's International Office website.

Dr. Beverly Evans, Professor of French language and literature, has served as Chair of Geneseo's Foreign Languages department, and established Geneseo's Humanities II summer program in Paris.  Email evans@geneseo.edu.

Geneseo students must attend two orientation sessions before departure.  
For a detailed description of the costs associated with this program, download the Program Cost Sheet by clicking on the link below.

Program Academic Year Cost Sheet 2024-2025

If the tuition at your home campus is different than the SUNY tuition shown on the above cost sheet estimate, your Program Fee will be correspondingly higher or lower. SUNY tuition and fees are subject to change without notice by action of the SUNY Board of Trustees.

Updated Cost Sheet coming soon

Montpellier International Office Website

Info session from February 2021: https://youtu.be/b86sc-bbct4

Application Deadlines

Fall/AY: March 1
Spring: September 1

 


** Due to the competitive nature of exchange programs and limited number of students accepted for each, all applications will be reviewed at the same time within two weeks of the application deadline **
Term Apply
Spring 2025
Type:
Semester Exchange
Language of Instruction:
French
Field(s) of Study:
French, Language and Literature, Liberal Arts and Sciences
Special Features:
Host Institution, Intensive Pre-Program Language Instruction

Program Provider

SUNY-Geneseo
http://www.geneseo.edu/study_abroad

Host Institution

Université Paul Valéry Montpellier III
http://www.univ-montp3.fr/ri/uk/index_uk.php?part=venir-usa