Studying abroad made simple - with IS:link!

Studying abroad is a unique, life-changing opportunity to expand your education and your personality – find out why. However, studying at a foreign university is often very difficult to organise and prolongs graduation. IS:link, the international network of Information Systems schools, is dedicated to promote student exchange and to make studying abroad at an IS:link university as easy as possible. On this page, you will find out how and why IS:link simplifies student exchange:

Easy application process

As students often struggle with a complex, slow and intransparent application process, IS:link has established a lean and simple way to arrange student exchange:

  • Look and apply for your most favourable foreign university exclusively using the IS:link web platform
  • Create learning agreements and receive its acknowledgement online
  • Continously track the status of your application, as it is displayed and updated in your user account on the IS:link web page
  • Erasmus scholarship application is integrated

One central web-based platform

You will can use the IS:link web page and your IS:link user account to plan and and manage your study abroad completely online:

  • Find all information necessary for choosing the right university for your study abroad: Information about the universities and respective study courses, semester dates, the city and the country, etc.
  • Benefit from many useful information collected on the IS:link web platform, e.g. regarding funding and scholarships, accommodation or actual student experiences

Significantly reduced planning effort

IS:link remidates bureaucratic obstacles by replacing the current, typically very bureaucratic student exchange processes at universities with one lean, standardised and efficient administrative process:

  • The whole student exchange process, starting with looking for the most favourable university and ending with the acknowledgment of your foreign study courses at your home university, is reflected in one electronic workflow on the IS:link platform
  • Hardly any paperwork necessary, nearly all forms available online
  • Find the courses of every university that fit to those of your studies by using the IS:link “course matching” application

Avoid graduation delay

IS:link guarantees in advance that your credits for courses completed at a foreign IS:link university will be acknowledged for your home studies:

  • Find those courses at universities abroad, which can be used as an replacement for courses at your home university and are connected to through a general IS:link curriculum
  • The IS:link courses matching to your studies are preapproved for credit transfer, hence guaranteed to be acknowledged at your home university, allowing you to seamlessly integrate a study abroad into your studies without delaying your graduation
  • Write term papers or your bachelor’s / master’s thesis abroad

International Summer Schools

During the one or two weeks of a Summer School you catch a first glimpse of the experiences of studying at a foreign university:

  • Challenging tasks, renowned professors and a lot of fun with students from all over the world
  • Summer Schools are connected to the IS:link curriculum allowing you to get your Summer School credits acknowledged at your home university
  • No fees for students of IS:link universities, pay only for board and lodging

Continuous support from on-site IS:link coordinators