Since the end of last year, the Office of International Affairs organized a series of twelve meetings to introduce students to the diverse range of exciting opportunities for overseas studies. The meetings introduced the various study abroad programs available at NTU partner universities around the globe, providing interested students with an abundance of vital information to help them identify the programs that best suit their needs. Representatives of Singapore's Nanyang Technological University, France's Lille Catholic University, and the United States' Stanford University visited NTU to introduce their summer programs during the OIA meetings.

The OIA, which oversees the university's study abroad programs, continues to coordinate actively with prestigious universities and educational institutions around the world to expand the number of programs offered. Students who take part in NTU's overseas summer programs, which range in duration from three to six weeks, will personally experience the academic atmosphere and campus life at renowned overseas universities while studying and making friends with students from around the world. For the first time this year, NTU students will also have the chance to attend the Vancouver Summer Program at the University of British Columbia in Canada, as well as a language and culture program at Spain's Complutense University of Madrid. Such experiences serve to broaden our students' global outlook and enhance their language skills.

The OIA currently offers summer programs held at eleven overseas universities. Besides the University of British Columbia, Complutense University of Madrid, and Stanford University, partner universities include the University of Oxford, University of California, Berkeley, University of Pennsylvania, University of Hamburg, Heidelberg University, Free University of Berlin, Lille Catholic University, and Ritsumeikan University in Japan.

Meanwhile, in a sign of the close relationship being promoted between NTU and its neighbors through the NTU Triangle Alliance, which includes National Taiwan Normal University and National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, NTU's study abroad programs will be open to NTNU and NTUST students for the first time this summer. Around 200 students from these local partners are expected to participate.