About the Hessen Exchange

The objective of the Hessen-Massachusetts Program is to collaborate between institutions of higher education in the states of Massachusetts, USA, and Hessen, Germany, in pursuing student educational and faculty research projects of mutual benefit to the development of both systems of higher education.

The Hessen-Massachusetts program has grown out of a close cooperation between colleagues and universities in the states of Massachusetts and Hessen starting in 1997, with the first UMass Dartmouth German Business Seminar designed and taught by Professor Joseph Bronstad of the Foreign Literature and Language Department and Professor Richard Golen of the Management Department.

This transatlantic educational initiative promotes cooperation in a range of academic and research initiatives, focusing on the exchange of students and faculty.

The Hessen-Massachusetts Program is supported cooperatively by the University of Massachusetts and the Hessen Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and the Arts.

The five campuses of the University of Massachusetts participate in the exchange program:

• University of Massachusetts Amherst
• University of Massachusetts Boston
• University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
• University of Massachusetts Lowell
• University of Massachusetts Worcester (Medical School)

The UMass Dartmouth campus coordinates the program.

The Hessen universities engaged in the program are:

• Academy of Arts and Design
• Applied University for Music and Performing Arts
• Darmstadt Technical University
• Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt
• Justus-Liebig University Gieben
• Philipps-University Marburg
• University of Applied Science Darmstadt
• University of Applied Science Frankfurt am Main
• University of Applied Science Fulda
• University of Applied Science Gieben-Friedberg
• University of Applied Science Wiesbaden
• University of Kassel