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ACM Off-Campus Study Programs

ACM offers dynamic and innovative off-campus programs in a variety of locations around the world.  Designed with a strong liberal arts perspective, ACM programs offer students an interdisciplinary educational experience, personal attention, independent projects, and diverse viewpoints and ways of learning.  Select one of our programs below to learn more!

Flag Botswana

Botswana: Culture & Society in Africa
Gaborone, Botswana

Flag Brazil

Brazil Exchange
Juiz de Fora, Brazil

Flag Costa Rica

Costa Rica: Field Research
San José & field sites, Costa Rica
Costa Rica: Latin American Culture & Society
San José, Costa Rica

Flag India

India Studies
Pune, India

Flag Italy

Florence Program
Florence, Italy
London & Florence: Arts in Context
London, England & Florence, Italy

Flag Japan

Japan Study
Tokyo, Japan

Flag Tanzania

Tanzania: Human Evolution and Ecology
Dar es Salaam & field sites, Tanzania

Flag United Kingdom

London & Florence: Arts in Context
London, England & Florence, Italy

Flag United States

Chicago Programs

Chicago, Illinois

Newberry Seminar in the Humanities
Chicago, Illinois
Oak Ridge Science Semester
Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Member colleges

  1. Beloit College
  2. Carleton College
  3. Coe College
  4. Colorado College
  5. Cornell College
  6. Grinnell College
  7. Knox College
  8. Lake Forest College
  9. Lawrence University
  10. Macalester College
  11. Monmouth College
  12. Ripon College
  13. St. Olaf College

Off-campus study

Eric Haugee Like many 20 year-olds on the Urban Studies program, my career goals at the time were to do something to help other people. On the program, I realized that social work - while necessary - is not the band-aid approach I wanted to be a part of. Upon graduating from college, I spent eight years working for the Minnesota State Senate, and now lobby on behalf of early childhood issues, where I have had a direct influence on the resources made available for early childhood programs for at risk families. The ACM Urban Studies program, for me, was as much about realizing what I didn't want to do in life as finding out what I did want to do. I would not be doing what I am today were it not for my experience in Chicago in the spring of 1994.

—Eric Haugee, Chicago Urban Studies, Spring 1994

Cyndi Pinkus Going on the study abroad program to Tanzania was one of the most important decisions I have ever made. Not a day goes by that I don't look back at my time in Tanzania and wish I could go back there again. I really discovered myself as a person and learned to observe everything in a new perspective. This will continue to be one of the most influential and wonderful experiences of my life. Ninapenda Tanzania!

—Cyndi Pinkus, Tanzania, Fall 2006

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Who we are

The Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) is a consortium of 13 independent, liberal arts colleges in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Colorado.