MICEFA (Mission Interuniversitaire de Coordination des Échanges Franco-Américains) is a nonprofit organization that manages partnerships between universities throughout North America and in the area of Paris, France. Created in 1985, MICEFA has helped tens of thousands of students participate in cultural and scientific exchanges on both sides of the Atlantic. Students remain enrolled in, and pay tuition to, their home universities, while attending classes and receiving credits abroad. While the program is largely focused on undergraduates, some graduate study exchanges also may be arranged. The newest aspect of the exchange program is a medical exchange between several top medical schools in the United States and in Paris.
More than 60 North American universities are represented across the United States and Canada:
California State University (CSU) system:
Bakersfield
Channel Islands
Chico
Dominguez Hills
East Bay
Fresno
Fullerton
Humboldt
Long Beach
Los Angeles
Monterey Bay
Northridge
Pomona (Polytechnic)
Sacramento
San Bernardino
San Diego State
San Francisco State
San Jose State
San Luis Obispo (Polytechnic)
San Marcos
Sonoma State
Stanislaus
City University of New York (CUNY) system:
Baruch College
Brooklyn College
City College
The Graduate Center
Hunter College
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Lehman College
Medgar Evers College
Queens College
College of Staten Island
York College
La Guardia Community College
Borough of Manhattan Community College
Queensborough Community College
State University of New York (SUNY) system:
Albany
Binghamton University
Brockport
Buffalo
Geneseo
Oswego
Potsdam
Institute of Technology
New Paltz
Plattsburgh
Purchase College
American University
Baldwin-Wallace University
Bellarmine University
Centenary College of Louisiana
University of Connecticut
Florida International University
George Washington University
Glendon College
University of Illinois at Chicago
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Louisiana State University
Loyola University New Orleans
Manhattan College
University of Mary Washington
McNeese State University
University of Miami
University of New Brunswick
New Mexico State University
University of New Orleans
Northern Arizona University
Pace University
University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
University of Saskatchewan
University of South Florida
Tarleton State University
University of Texas at Austin
University of Waterloo
University of Wisconsin-Madison
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Vanderbilt University
Xavier University of Louisiana
All of MICEFA's university partners in France are located in the Paris metropolitan area:
Cergy-Pontoise University
Évry-Val d'Essonne University
Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne University
Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle University
Paris Sorbonne University
Paris Diderot University
Paris Saint Denis-Vincennes University
Paris Nanterre-Ouest University
Paris Est-Creteil University
Paris Nord-Villetaneuse University
Paris Sud-Orsay University
Paris Pierre et Marie Curie University
Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
Institut Catholique de Paris
ISEP – a graduate engineering school specializing in electronics, software & computer engineering, signal & image processing, telecommunications, and networks
In the United States:
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY
Columbia University, New York City
George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
University of Illinois, Chicago
University of Massachusetts, Worcester, Mass.
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Tulane University, New Orleans
Weill-Cornell Medical College, New York City
In France:
Paris Diderot University
Paris Est-Creteil University
Paris Pierre et Marie Curie University
Paris Nord-Villetaneuse University
Paris Sud-Orsay University
Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
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