How to Apply

Get nominated for the exchange by your home institution and get confirmation that your nomination has been accepted.

Your nomination must include: 

1. Your full name as it appears in your passport
2. Your level of studies (i.e., undergraduate or graduate)
3. A brief description of what you study at your home institution
4. Your intended area(s) of study while on exchange at UAlberta
5. The requested duration of your exchange (i.e., Fall Term, Winter Term, or Full Year)
6. An email address at which you can be contacted

Please Note:

With one exception, acceptance of your nomination does not guarantee that you will be accepted for exchange.  If your application reveals that you don't meet the admission requirements then your application would be rejected, either by the UAlberta exchange office or by the faculty or department to which you have applied.  (The exception is for participants in the National Student Exchange (NSE) program; participants in that program whose nominations are accepted are guaranteed to be accepted for their desired exchanges if they submit correct and complete exchange applications by the deadlines given.)

For students with disabilities

If you are a student with one or more documented disabilities and you would like to get academic accommodation during your exchange then you will need to register with our Accessibility + Accommodations team as soon as possible.  Please visit our Support for Students with Disabilities page to find out how to do so.

After you submit a complete and error-free application, it can take up to 4 to 6 weeks for it to be processed and for a decision to be released.  It might take some faculties and departments longer to make decisions.

If the decision is to admit you for your desired exchange it would be communicated to you through two letters:

• The first would be your Letter of Offer.  You must accept this to get the second letter.
• The second letter would be your Letter of Acceptance.

Students applying for an exchange to UAlberta would also be issued a student ID number, a computing ID (called a "CCID") and a password (and you can expect to receive this information even before decisions are released). The CCID and password will give you access to a ualberta.ca email account and a Bear Tracks account.

The decision may be available through one or both of the accounts mentioned above or through your UAlberta Launchpad Status Page if you are an undergraduate student or through your Graduate Application Portal if you are a graduate student.

Please visit our Preparing for Your Exchange page to find out what you can do while waiting for the decision and what to do after you discover that you've been admitted.