Stay Abroad

If you want your stay abroad to be recognized, you must spend time in an English-speaking country with exposure to native speakers of English in a rich English-language environment.

The UK, Ireland, the USA, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand are all unreservedly fine.

A good test is: if you were on the street, would they be speaking English as a first language (not can they, or is it an official language, or as a lingua franca, but do they?).

• IN: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Dominica, Federated States of Micronesia, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Kenya, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, The Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago
• OUT: Cameroon, Hong Kong, India, Israel, Malta, Morocco
• MAYBE: Ghana and Fiji  have been accepted in the past if the language environment is judged to be sufficiently rich. Former British colonies may be possible, but this is not necessarily the case.

You may get credit (full or partial) for previous prolonged stays in an English-speaking country. However, this will be judged on a case by case basis.

To apply for accreditation, please email stayabroad-labg.englisch.fk15tu-dortmundde, attaching proof of your previous Stay Abroad.

The required (minimum) length of the stay abroad is 12 weeks. Students may split this stay into three periods of no less than 4 weeks each if necessary.

For an extended stay abroad,  refer to the homepage of the Referat Internationales.