Both Duke University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have strong, long-standing partnerships with German universities and students are strongly encouraged to study and conduct research abroad as an integral part of their graduate work.
Duke University offers student exchanges with the Free University of Berlin and the University of Potsdam, programs in which graduate students in German Studies regularly participate, and the UNC Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures runs a graduate-level exchange with the University of Tübingen.