Dual-Credential Degrees

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International Dual-Credential Degree Programs provide a unique opportunity to enhance student experience at each of the participating institutions. The development of educational programs with excellent peer universities or institutes in other countries allows students from each partner to gain unique educational exposure and valuable international academic and cultural experiences. The global nature of these International Dual-Credential Degree Programs strengthens students’ careers, provides professional opportunities and enhances the stature of Western wherever such partnerships are established.

Western has always welcomed the best students from anywhere in the world to study here. By awarding a Dual-Credential Degree the partner institutions acknowledge the additional international experience and effort of each student. Additionally and more practically it allows the educational background and core competencies of each student to be clear in each jurisdiction.

The School of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies has dual-credential degree agreements with the following universities. Educational partnership opportunities require the student to be formally accepted/admitted to each of the two universities.Western is committed to excellence in its research and academic programs and it recognizes that its strengths can be enhanced by collaborative relationships with domestic or international partners.

Dual Credential Degree Agreements

  1. Australia:  Flinders University, UWO - Institutional Dual Doctoral Degree
  2. Belgium:  Ghent University, UWO - Institutional Dual Doctoral Degree
  3. Brazil:  University of Campinas (UNICAMP), UWO - Institutional Dual Doctoral Degree
  4. Brazil:  Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, UWO - Institutional Dual Doctoral Degree
  5. China:  Soochow University, UWO Synchrotron Radiation Research 2+2 Agreement - PhD from Western and Certificate from Soochow
  6. China:  Soochow University, UWO - Basic Medical Science 2+2 Agreement - PhD from Western and Certificate from Soochow
  7. China:  Shandong University, UWO - Dept. of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences 3+1+1
  8. China:  Sichuan University, UWO - Dept. of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences  3+1+1
  9. China:  South China University of Technology, UWO - Dept. of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences 3+1+1
  10. China:  Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, UWO - Dept. of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences 3+1+1
  11. China:  Zhejiang University of Technology, UWO - Institutional Dual Doctoral Degree
  12. China:  Tianjin University, UWO - Institutional Dual Doctoral Degree
  13. China:  Tongji University, UWO - Civil Engineering Dual Doctoral Degree
  14. China:  Zhejiang University, UWO - Institutional Dual Doctoral Degree
  15. China:  Nanjing Medical University, UWO - Institutional Dual Doctoral Degree
  16. Italy:  Universita degli Studi di Padova, UWO - Institutional Dual Doctoral Degree
  17. Italy:  The University of Milano - Bicocca, UWO - Faculty of Science     Dual Doctoral Degree
  18. Norway:  Norwegian School of Economics, UWO - Ivey Business School Dual Doctoral Degree
  19. Sweden:  Chalmers' University, UWO - Institutional Dual Doctoral Degree

Co-Tutelle Agreements (with Universities in France)

  1. L'Université d'Aix-Marseille
  2. L'Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III
  3. L'Université de Poitiers
  4. L'Université Lumiere Lyon 2
  5. L'Université Toulouse 1 Capitole
  6. The Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
  7. Université Cote D'Azur
  8. Universite de Lille I     

To view the original Senate proposal for co-tutelle agreements, please visit http://uwo.ca/univsec/senate/minutes/2010/r1010scapa.pdf.