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The
Junior Year in Munich is America's oldest intercollegiate study
abroad program in Germany, and is officially affiliated with Germany's
top-ranked university: Ludwig
Maximilians Universität München (LMU Munich).
History
First
established 1931 as an extension of the University of Delaware Foreign
Study Plan, Wayne State University sponsored the reopening of the
Junior Year in Munich in 1953 as the first junior year abroad program
for US undergraduates in postwar Germany.
Programs
For
more than 50 years, Wayne State's JYM program has advanced the cause
of study abroad as an integral part of US undergraduate education.
In
addition to JYM's time-tested academic year program, today we operate
one-semester programs, internship programs, an honors program within
JYM, as well as a short summer program for talented college freshmen
students of German that exposes them to the opportunities for study
in Munich with JYM during their junior year.
German
University Integration
At the same time, we're proud of the fact that we insist upon continuing
the distinguished
tradition of academically integrated
study abroad —
a program model that offers maximum opportunity for the academic,
cultural, and social immersion of US students studying abroad in
Germany as bonafide German university students.
Our
status at LMU Munich makes this possible. JYM is not a so-called
island program nor an American campus abroad. Rather, the JYM program
enjoys privileged status as an affiliated
academic institute approved by the LMU Munich Academic Senate, and
an official course of study (Teil-Studiengang) approved by
the Bavarian State Ministry of Culture. Hence our name, the "Junior
Year in Munich an der Universität München".
JYM
Student Profile
- approx.
55 students from 30+ colleges/universities annually
(72% private, 28% public)
- 84% of students admitted exceed minimum German language requirement
- Average GPA of students admitted 3.50+
- 19% German majors; 58% double majors with German;
23% non-German majors
One-Page
Overview of JYM (PDF)
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