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 2025 entry is 15 March 2025. The strict deadline to nominate your students for January 2026 entry is 1 October 2025.  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 students are not permitted to study at King's in more than one academic year at the same level.
• Please see our Fact Sheet - King's College London 2024-25 and Fact Sheet - King's College London 2025-26 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, this may be subject to change for 2025/26:

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 (both exchange and fee-paying) will be prioritised for modules within the English department in the first instance.  Exception: 4AAEA002 Writing London is open to all students in the first instance.  Students must provide confirmation of their major either on their transcript or through additional documentation.
Subject to availability and meeting eligibility criteria, modules will then be offered to all other exchange and fee-paying students 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).  4AAQS100 Introduction to Film Studies: Forms is open to all exchange students in the first instance.
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(both exchange and fee-paying) 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 exchange and fee-paying students during our module amendment period each semester. Exceptions: level 4 History modules are open to all students in the first instance.  Students must provide confirmation of their major either on their transcript or through additional documentation.
Postgraduate modules in History are only open to postgraduate students nominated under History specific agreements in the first instance.

Informatics: Computer Science majors nominated by exchange partners will be prioritised for modules within the Informatics department in the first instance.  We will limit students to two modules from the Informatics department, further registrations may be requested during our module amendment period, subject to availability.
Subject to availability, modules will then be offered to all other exchange students during our module amendment period each semester. 
Then subject to availability and meeting eligibility criteria, Informatics modules will then be offered to fee-paying students 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.  Postgraduate (LLM) Law modules are only available to students specifically nominated under a postgraduate Law exchange, and are not open to any other student.

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.