International Office

The International Office

• advises and looks after foreign students
• advises undergraduate and postgraduate students and faculty on issues concerning the organization of study abroad
• advises students on stipends available for foreign study and on exchange programs
• is the contact office for the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) and the Fulbright-Commission.
• promotes the establishment of subject-based university cooperation programs within the European Union (e.g. ERASMUS).
• looks after international university partnerships and student exchange programs of the HfMDK Frankfurt.

State partnerships

Aside from the ERASMUS program the State of Hesse also has exchange partnerships with universities in Wisconsin and Massachusetts in the United States and in Queensland Australia. The Academic Foreign Students Service offers advice on these programs too. You will find further information and application forms on the following websites:

www.massachusetts.hessen.de
www.wisconsin.hessen.de
www.queensland.hessen.de

In addition the university has a bilateral cooperation with the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse (www.uwlax.edu/music).

Außerdem betreut das International Office ausländische Studierende und informiert bei Stipendienfragen.

Students at HfMDK Frankfurt will receive a 10% reduction on language courses offered by the Goethe-Institut Frankfurt (Diesterwegplatz 72, 60594 Frankfurt am Main; Tel: 069 – 9 61 22 70; www.goethe.de) on presentation of valid ID.