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History
of JYM
The
Junior Year in Munich is America's oldest intercollegiate study
abroad program in Germany, and is officially affiliated with Germany's
top-ranked elite university: Ludwig
Maximilians Universität München (LMU Munich).
For more than 75 years, the Junior Year in Munich has pursued a
single mission: to integrate US undergraduate students with university
studies in Germany.
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 academic year abroad
program for US undergraduates in postwar Germany. For more than
50 years, Wayne State's JYM program has continued the distinguished
tradition of academically integrated study abroad at a German university.
See
"75
Years of the Junior Year in Munich" (PDF)
JYM's mission of
university integration is the driving force behind our program
features and defines what sets us apart from other study abroad
programs. 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
is recognized as an
Affiliated Program at such prominent and select schools as
the University of Pennsylvania, Miami University of Ohio, Alfred
University and Oberlin College. JYM is also
recognized as an Approved Program at Ivy League schools such
as Cornell, Harvard, Yale, the Huntsman Program in International
Studies and Business at The Wharton School, and many more.
In
any given year, 55 students from 30 colleges and universities participate
in JYM programs. More than 3500
students from 500 schools across the US have chosen to study abroad
in Germany with Wayne State's "Junior Year in Munich an
der Universität München"
since 1953.
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