Guidance for Overseas Partners & Advisors

Nominations 

• We ask all overseas institutions to complete a nomination form for each of their students who plan on applying to study abroad at King's College London as part of an exchange agreement between their home university and King's College London for either one semester or a full year.
• The online nomination form will be found on this page, it will open when the relevant nomination period is due to start.   The strict deadline to nominate your semester 1 and full year exchange students for September 2024 entry is 15 March 2024. The strict deadline to nominate your students for January 2025 entry is 1 October 2024.  We do not accept student nominations by email.
• The nomination form should not be used by universities that send fee-paying students.  Any nominations and subsequent student exchange applications will be discarded.
• Please note that exchange students are not permitted to study at King's in more than one academic year at the same level.
• Please see our fact sheet for more details.
• We strongly encourage our partners to try and distribute their nominations evenly across the academic year.  Please contact studyabroad@kcl.ac.uk in advance if you plan to nominate considerably more students in one semester than the other.

Please pay attention to the following module information for 2024/25:

Please kindly remind your students that if they are nominated under a particular departmental exchange, they must take at least half of their modules from that department.  Students nominated under a modern language are permitted to choose modules from any of our modern language departments.

English (Literature): Students nominated under specific English (Literature) department agreements and Literature majors from other exchange partners will be prioritised for modules within the English Department in the first instance.
Subject to availability and meeting eligibility criteria, modules will then be offered to all other non-Literature majors during our module amendment period each semester. 

Postgraduate modules in English are only open to postgraduate students nominated under English or Comparative Literature specific agreements in the first instance.

European and International Studies (EIS): Level 6 modules are prioritised for students from specific exchange partners (see individual module catalogue pages for details), nominated under the European and International Studies exchange, in the first instance.  Subject to availability, level 6 modules will then be offered to Politics/IR/Social Sciences major students during our module amendment period each semester. 
Postgraduate modules in EIS are only open to postgraduate students nominated under EIS specific agreements in the first instance.

Film Studies: Students nominated under specific Film department agreements as well as Film/Cinema Theory Studies major students (please note that does not include Media Studies) from other exchange partners will be prioritised for modules within the Film Department in the first instance.  Subject to availability, modules may then be offered to non-Film major exchange students in our module amendment period each semester (subject to meeting eligibility criteria and pre-requirements). 
Fee-paying students will not be permitted to register for Film modules. 
Please note that we do not count practical film-making modules towards our eligibility criteria - all relevant modules must be theory based.

Global Health & Social Medicine (GHSM): Exchange students from the University of Oslo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Melbourne, National University of Singapore, Western University, Cornell University or York University, as well as fee-paying students, will be prioritised for modules within the GHSM Department.  Subject to availability, modules will then be offered to other exchange students in our module amendment period each semester.

History: Students nominated under specific History department agreements and History majors from other exchange partners will be prioritised for modules within the History Department in the first instance.   Subject to availability and meeting eligibility criteria, modules will then be offered to all other non-History majors during our module amendment period each semester. 
Postgraduate modules in History are only open to postgraduate students nominated under History specific agreements in the first instance.

Informatics: Computer Science majors from École Polytechnique, University of Hong Kong, University of Melbourne, Monash University, National University of Singapore, University of Toronto, University of California, UNC Chapel Hill, Université Catholique de Lille will be prioritised for modules within the Informatics Department.  Subject to demand, we reserve the right to limit students to two modules from the Informatics department in the first instance if necessary.
Subject to availability, modules will then be offered to Computer Science majors from all exchange partners during our module amendment period each semester. Subject to availability and meeting eligibility criteria, Informatics modules will then be offered to fee-paying and other exchange students during our amendment period.  Please note there is no guarantee that fee-paying students will be able to register for Informatics modules
Postgraduate modules in Informatics are only open to postgraduate students nominated under Informatics specific agreements. 

Law: Modules marked as Law only are only open to students specifically registered on a Law programme (LLB, BA Law or equivalent, not Legal Studies). Law modules marked as available to non-Law students are also open to students on other social sciences degrees such as Legal Studies or Politics, or Business, depending on the module focus.

Psychology: Psychology modules (outside of the Biosciences catalogue) are not readily open to Study Abroad students.  The Psychology department only offers modules to full-year study abroad students. These students will be registered on either the full suite of first or second year modules from the Psychology BSc degree programme, subject to their academic background and only with prior approval from the Psychology Department.  Psychology students who want to study at King's for one semester, should consider the modules available in our Biosciences module catalogue. Please contact studyabroad@kcl.ac.uk prior to nomination/application for more information.

Students should be aware of these restrictions when applying to King’s in the first instance, as well as whether or not we actually offer modules in their major to avoid disappointment.  Students will be advised how and when to apply for modules if they are not in the initial priority groups.