Junior Year in Munich

Originally established 1931 as an extension of the University of Delaware Foreign Study Plan, the Junior Year in Munich program was reopened in 1953 by Wayne State University as the first junior year abroad program for US undergraduates in postwar Germany.

President Keast reported that both programs were running effectively, and that "they enjoy the confidence and esteem of the German professors and administrators who are involved in them."

Attending courses entirely in German (and those available to German students as well) in their major field of study at Wayne, Keast reported that the University of Munich's responses to the program had been favorable, and that up to 100 spaces had been authorized in Munich for students from the program.

[1] In 1967 the JYM program was approved by the LMU Munich Academic Senate as an affiliated academic institute, and was conferred the title “Junior Year in Munich an der Universität München” by LMU Munich in 1974 when the Bavarian State Ministry of Culture approved the program as an official course of study (Teil-Studiengang) at the university.

Additional area studies courses and advanced language instruction are provided by the JYM program.