{"id":606,"date":"2024-10-29T11:19:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T15:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/office-global-engagement\/?page_id=606"},"modified":"2026-05-26T10:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T14:52:07","slug":"types","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/office-global-engagement\/partnerships-agreements\/types\/","title":{"rendered":"Types of Partnerships and Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"parent":586,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/one-column.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"class_list":["post-606","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"lead_in":"","display_title":"","subtitle":"","call_to_action":"","hero_image_placement":"no_image","hero_media":"images","hero_pattern_option":"","hero_video":"","hero_image_landing":"","hero_image_landing_two":"","hero_image_landing_three":"","content_modules_above":[{"acf_fc_layout":"accordion_new","anchor_id":"","classes":"pt-0 mt-0","title":"","description":"The University of Rochester engages in a variety of partnerships collaborations with schools around the world. Explore this page to get a high-level overview of these types of activities.\r\n\r\nReady to take action?:<\/strong> You can explore our current partnerships<\/a>, or learn how to start a new partnership<\/a>.\r\n

Academic partnerships<\/h2>\r\nAcademic partnerships and collaborations are critical to the University of Rochester\u2019s global mission. These partnerships span all of the major academic departments and activities at URochester, enabling student and faculty mobility, collaboration, and capacity building.","background":"plain","background_color":"#ffffff","style":"row_blank","expand":"no","accordions":[{"acf_fc_layout":"title","sub_heading":"Types of academic partnerships"},{"acf_fc_layout":"accordion","accordion_title":"General cooperations agreements","icon":"","row_content":"At URochester, General Cooperative Agreements aren\u2019t required to work together on research or move between places, unless you want to officially agree to work together on specific programs in the future. Examples are a Memorandum of Understanding or Letter of Intent.","accordion_anchor":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"accordion","accordion_title":"Student exchanges","icon":"","row_content":"Student exchanges are programs where students (mostly undergraduates) from another school comes to the University of Rochester, and students from URochester go to that partner school. During these exchanges, students can take classes and get involved in service, research, internships, or other specialty activities. These are typically supported by an International Exchange Agreement with the partner school.","accordion_anchor":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"accordion","accordion_title":"Faculty exchanges and mobility partnerships ","icon":"","row_content":"Faculty mobility allows for new opportunities for faculty development, teaching, and research by allowing faculty to move between the University of Rochester and a partner school. They might trade places to teach, go on extended visits for training, travel for conferences or sponsorships. The partnership can be reciprocal (two-way exchange of faculty) or non-reciprocal (one-way travel of faculty).","accordion_anchor":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"accordion","accordion_title":"Collaborative degrees","icon":"","row_content":"Collaborative Degree programs are less common but can offer students opportunities to study and get degrees from multiple schools. This program provides an opportunity for students to pursue two degrees either at the same time or one after the other. Some of the course hours can be applied to both degrees. These are supported by a Collaborative Degree or Joint Degree Program agreement.","accordion_anchor":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"accordion","accordion_title":"Education abroad opportunities","icon":"","row_content":"Additional education abroad opportunities may include but aren\u2019t limited to:\r\n