Universities Around the World Offering Translation and/or Interpreting Degrees and/or Education and/or Certificates
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Below is a list of universities, colleges and educational establishments around the world that offer education in translation and/or interpretation in order of country and then in alphabetical order. CTTIC has compiled this list from a non-exhaustive internet search made on May 3, 2023 plus some help from FIT colleagues around the world (thank you FIT!). Please be advised that some of the below information may not be up to date when you access it. Links to these institutions are provided with the caution that courses (and websites) come and go, so please do your own more detailed research using the names of the institutions listed. Some of them offer Bachelor’s degrees, others Master’s degrees, or both. A few only offer certificates in these professions. CTTIC makes no judgement as to the quality of the courses offered. Before you apply to any of these schools, please make sure it offers studies in your language combination(s) and in the field of translation or interpretation you are most interested in so that the studies you take are pertinent to your envisaged future professional field. Also please note that should you intend to work in the translation field with the view to becoming professionally certified through CTTIC, already possess a high level of talent for languages and wish to learn the skills and techniques involved in translation and interpretation, for practical reasons we suggest you study for a practical degree in translation or interpretation as opposed to a theoretical degree which is more geared to academic research.
Algeria
- Université d’Alger
- Université d’Oran
Argentina
- IES Olga Cossettini
- Instituto Anglo
- Instituto San Miguel
- Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”
- Lenguas Vivas SBS
- Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina, Buenos Aires
- Universidad Adventista del Plata
- Universidad Argentina de la Empresa
- Universidad CAECE
- Universidad Católica Argentina
- Universidad Católica de Salta
- Universidad de Belgrano
- Universidad de Buenos Aires
- Universidad de Lanús
- Universidad de Morón
- Universidad del Centro Educativo Latinoamericano
- Universidad del Museo Social Argentino
- Universidad del Salvador
- Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires
- Universidad Nacional de Catamarca
- Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
- Universidad Nacional de Cuyo
- Universidad Nacional de La Plata
- Universidad Nacional del Comahue
Australia
- Australian National University
- Macquarie University, Sydney
- Monash University
- RMIT University
- University of Adelaide
- University of Melbourne
- University of New South Wales, Sidney
- University of Newcastle
- University of Queensland
- University of Sydney
- University of Western Australia
- Western Sydney University
Austria
- Institut für Theoretische und Angewandte Translationswissenschaft, Universität Graz
- Institut für Translationswissenschaft, Universität Innsbruck
- Institut für Übersetzen und Dolmetschen, Universität Wien
Belgium
- École d’Interprètes Internationaux, Université de Mons – Hainaut
- École de Traduction et Interprétation ISTI – Cooremans, ULB Université Libre de Bruxelles, Uccle
- Institut supérieur de traducteurs et interprètes (ISTI), Haute École de Bruxelles
- Institut Libre Marie Haps, Bruxelles
- Research Centre for Translation, Communication and Cultures (CETRA), Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
- Traduction et Interprétation à la Haute École de la ville de Liège
- Vakgroep Vertalen, Tolken en Communicatie, Universiteit Gent
- Vertaalkunde, Erasmushogeschool Brussel
Brazil
- Departamento de Letras Estrangeiras Modernas, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
- Departamento de Letras, Pontificia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
Canada (click here for a list with links)
- Collège Universitaire de Saint-Boniface, MB
- Concordia University, QC
- McGill University, Montreal, QC
- School of Interpretation and Translation, University of Ottawa, ON
- Simon Fraser University, Continuing Studies, BC
- Université de Montréal, QC
- Université de Sainte-Anne, NS
- Université de Sherbrooke, QC
- Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, QC
- Université du Québec en Outaouais, Gatineau, QC
- Université Laval, QC
- University of Alberta, AB
- University of Manitoba, MB
- University of Moncton, NB
- University of Ottawa, ON
- University of Toronto, ON
- University of Waterloo, ON
- York University – Glendon Campus, ON
Chile
- Instituto de Literatura y Ciencias del Lenguaje, Facultad de Filosofía y Educación, Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
China
- Associate Degree in Bilingual Business Communication and Higher Diploma in Translation and Interpretation, Caritas Francis Hsu College, Hong Kong
- Department of Chinese, Translation & Linguistics, City University of Hong Kong
- Department of Translation, Faculty of Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Peking University, Beijing
Colombia
- UNICESAR – Universidad Popular del Cesar
Costa Rica
- Universidad de Costa Rica
- Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
- Universidad Internacional de las Américas
Czech Republic
- Institute of Translation Studies, Charles University, Prague
Denmark
- Copenhagen Business School
Egypt
- Arabic and Translation Studies Division, Centre for Adult & Continuing Education, American University in Cairo
Estonia
- University of Tartu
- Tallin University
Finland
- Tampere University
- University of Eastern Finland
- University of Helsinki
- University of Turku
France
- Centre de Formation de Traducteurs, Terminologues & Rédacteurs, Université de Haute Bretagne (Rennes 2), Rennes
- École Supérieure d’Interprètes et de Traducteurs (ESIT), Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris III
- Institut de Traducteurs, d’Interprètes et de Relations Internationales, Université de Strasbourg
- ISIT – Institute of Intercultural Management and Communication, Paris
Germany
- BA-Studiengang Internationale Kommunikation und Übersetzen, Universität Hildesheim
- Diplom-Fachübersetzerin/Fachübersetzer, Fachbereich Fachkommunikation, Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal
- FASK-Germersheim
- Institut für Deutsche Gebärdensprache, Fachbereich Sprachwissenschaften, Universität Hamburg
- Institut für Sprach- und Übersetzungswissenschaften, Universität Leipzig
- Institut für Übersetzen und Dolmetschen (IUeD), Universität des Saarlandes
- Institut für Übersetzen und Dolmetschen, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
- Sprachen- und Dolmetscher-Institut München
- Studiengang Technikübersetzen, Fachhochschule Flensburg
- Studiengang Übersetzen und Dolmetschen, Fachhochschule Köln
Greece
- Ionian University, Corfu
- Metafrasi School of Translator Training, Athens
- SCG – Scientific College of Greece
Hungary
- Centre for Interpreter and Translator Training (TFK)
- Centre for Modern Languages (INYK)
Ireland
- University College Cork/Coléiste na hOliscoile Corcaigh
- Dublin City University
- Trinity College Dublin
Israel
- Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan
- Tel Aviv University
Italy
- Alma Mater Studiorum Universitá di Bologna
- Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
- Istituto Universitario per Interpreti e Traduttori di Trento, Trento
- Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori (SSLiMIT), Università di Bologna – Forlì
- Scuola Superiore di Lingue Moderne per Interpreti e Traduttori (SSLMIT), Università di Trieste
- Scuola Superiore Europea per Interpreti e Traduttori, Perugia University
- Scuola Superiore per Interpreti e Traduttori, Mantova
- Scuola Superiore per Interpreti e Traduttori, Milano
- Scuola Superiore per Interpreti e Traduttori, Roma
- Scuola Superiore per Interpreti e Traduttori, Vicenza
- Scuola superiore per mediatori linguistici Vittoria, Torino
- Scuola Superiore Universitaria per Interpreti e Traduttori, Regione Trentino Alto Adige
- Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma – UNINT
- Università del Salento, Lecce
Japan
- Translation School Babel University, Tokyo
Jordan
- University of Jordan, Amman
Kenya
- Africa International University, Nairobi
Latvia
- Faculty of E-Learning Technologies and Humanities, Riga Technical University, Riga
- Faculty of Humanities, Daugavpils University, Daugavpils
- Faculty of Humanities, University of Latvia, Riga
- Faculty of Translation Studies, Venstpils University of Applied Sciences, Ventspils
Lebanon
- École de Traducteurs et d’Interprètes de Beyrouth (ETIB), Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut
- USEK Holy Spirit University of Kaslik
Lithuania
- Institute of Foreign Languages, Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas
- Faculty of Pedagogy, Vilnius University of Applied Sciences, Vilnius
- Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University, Vilnius
- Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Klaipėda University, Klaipėda
- Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas
- Institute of Languages, Literature and Translation Studies, Kaunas Faculty, Vilnius University, Kaunas
- Kaunas University of Technology
Malta
- l-Universitá ta’ Malta/University of Malta
Mexico
- Iseti – Traducción de documentos de Derecho Societario, Actualización de gramática española para lingüistas, etc.
- Universidad Madero, Puebla
Morocco
- École Supérieure Marocaine de Traduction et d’Interprétariat
- ILCS Rabat – Accredited School of Marketing, Journalism and Translation in Rabat, Morocco
- Université Moulay Ismail, Meknes
Netherlands
- Hogeschool West-Nederland voor Vertaler en Tolk, Den Haag
- ITV Hogeschool voor Tolken en Vertalen, Utrecht
- LOI – HBO Vertaler Engels
- SNEVT – Stichting Nationale Examens Vertaler en Tolk
- Specialisatie Vertalen, Faculteit der Letteren, Universiteit van Utrecht
- Steunpunt Literair Vertalen
- Vertaalacademie Maastricht, Hogeschool Zuyd
- VERTOL, beroepsopleidingen voor tolken en vertalers Spaans, Amsterdam
New Zealand
- Centre for Translation & Interpreting Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Auckland
- Translating and Interpreting, School of Languages, Auckland Institute of Technology
- Victoria University of Wellington Te Herenga Waka
Norway
- Høgskolen i Agder, Kristiansand
Pakistan
- Centre for Translation Studies, The University of Gujrat
- International Islamic University Department of Translation & Interpretation
Peru
- Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas
Poland
- Centre for Modern Translation and Interpretation Studies, University of Lód
- Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Center for Translation Studies, University of Warsaw Institute of Applied Linguistics
- Postgraduate School for Translators and Interpreters, Jagiellonian University, Kraków
- School of Translation, Interpreting and Languages, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan
Portugal
- Curso de Especialização em Interpretação de Conferência, Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas, Universidade do Minho
- Departamento de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, ULHT – Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisboa
- Instituto Politécnico de Bragança
Russia
- College of Basic Professional Studies, National University of Science and Technology, Staryj Oskol
- Faculty of Humanities, Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University, Saint Petersburg
- Faculty of Philology and Faculty of Foreign Languages, Tomsk State University, Tomsk
- Faculty of Philology and Journalism, Samara University, Samara
- Faculty of Russian Language and General Educational Disciplines and Philological Faculty, RUDN University, Moscow
- Institute for the Humanities, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk
- Institute of Foreign Languages and Institute of Philology, Petrozavodsk State University, Petrozavodsk
- Institute of Humanities, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Saint Petersbourg
- Institute of Linguistics and Intercultural Communication, Sechenov University, Moscow
- Institute of Linguistics and International Communications and Institute of Media, Social Sciences and Humanities, South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk
- Institute of Philology and Intercultural Communication, Naberezhnye Chelny Institute, and Yelabuga Institute, Kazan Federal University, Kazan
- Institute of Philology and Journalism, Lobachevsky University, Nizhny Novgorod
- Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Tyumen, Tyumen
- Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, Moscow
- School of Core Engineering Education, Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk
- School of Humanities, Far Eastern Federal University, Vladivostok
- School of Philological Studies and School of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
- School of Philology and Language Communication, Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk
- The Institute for the Humanities, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal Universities, Kaliningrad
- Ural Institute of Humanities, Ural Federal University, Yekaterinburg
South Africa
- Department of Translation Studies, University of South Africa, Pretoria
- Durban University of Technology (DUT)
- Graduate School for Translators and Interpreters, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
- Tshwane University of Technology (TUT)
- University of Johannesburg
- University of Stellenbosch
- University of the Free State
South Korea
- Graduate School of International Studies in Seoul, Chung Ang University
- Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation, Busan University of Foreign Studies
- Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation, Pyeongtaek University
- Graduate School of Interpretation and Translation, Seoul University of Foreign Studies
- Graduate School of Translation & Interpretation, Seoul, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
- Interpretation and Translation, Global Campus in Yongin, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
- The Graduate School of Translation & Interpretation, Ewha Womans University
Spain
- Universidad Alfonso X El Sabio, Madrid
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- Universidad de Alcalá
- Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
- Universidad de Deusto, Bilbao
- Universidad de Granada
- Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
- Universidad de León
- Universidad de Málaga
- Universidad de Salamanca
- Universidad de Valencia/Universitat de València
- Universidad de Valladolid
- Universidad Internacional de Valencia
- Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Madrid
- Universidad San Jorge, Zaragoza
- Universidade de Vigo
- Universitat Autonóma de Barcelona
- Universitat d’Alacant/Universidad de Alicante
- Universitat de Vic, Universitat Central de Catalunya, Barcelona
- Universitat Jaume, Castellón de la Plana
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
- Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona
Sweden
- Institute for Interpretation and Translation Studies, Stockholm University
Switzerland
- École de traduction et d’interprétation, Université de Genève
- Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)
Taiwan
- Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation Studies, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei
- Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation, National Taiwan Normal University
- National Changhua University of Education – Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation
- National Taiwan Normal University – Graduate Institute of Translation and Interpretation
- Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages, Hengchun
Turkey
- Atilim University -Translation and Interpretation Department in Ankara
- Beykent University (Beykent Univertesi), Istanbul
- Department of Translation and Interpreting, Hacettepe University, Ankara
- Department of Translation and Interpreting, School of Foreign Languages, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul
- Translation and Interpretation, Vocational Program in Translation, Bilkent University
Ukraine
- Translation Department of Odesa National Mechnikov University, Odesa, Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
- Saint Joseph University, Dubai
United Kingdom
- Aberystwyth University
- Aston University, Birmingham
- Bangor University
- Cardiff University
- City University of London
- Durham University
- Goldsmiths, University of London
- Heriot-Watt University
- Lancaster University
- London Metropolitan University
- Middlesex University
- Newcastle University
- Queen’s University Belfast
- Royal Holloway, University of London
- SOAS University of London
- Swansea University
- The Open University, Milton Keynes
- Ulster University
- University College London
- University of Aberdeen
- University of Bath
- University of Belfast
- University of Birmingham
- University of Bristol
- University of Cambridge
- University of Central Lancashire
- University of Chester
- University of East Anglia
- University of Edinburgh
- University of Essex
- University of Exeter
- University of Glasgow
- University of Hull
- University of Leeds
- University of Leicester
- University of Manchester
- University of Nottingham
- University of Portsmouth
- University of Roehampton
- University of Sheffield
- University of Stirling
- University of Strathclyde
- University of Surrey
- University of Warwick
- University of Westminster
- University of Wolverhampton
- York St John University
USA
- Boston University Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, MA
- Carnegie Mellon University, Squirrel Hill North, PA
- Carolina College of Biblical Studies (Bible), Fayetteville, NC
- Center for Interpretation and Translation Studies, University of Hawaii, HI
- Center for Translation Studies, University of Texas at Dallas, TX
- City University of New York Hunter College, NY
- Department of American Sign Language, Linguistics and Interpretation, Gallaudet University, Washington, DC
- Graduate Program in Bilingual Legal Interpreting, University of Charleston, SC
- Olivet University, Anza, CA
- Professional Translation Certificate Program, University of Pittsburgh, PA
- Professional Translator Training Program, Institute of Applied Linguistics, Kent State University, Kent, OH
- The Graduate School of Translation and Interpretation, Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey, Monterey, CA
- The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
- Translation and Interpretation Institute, Washington Academy of Languages, Settle, WA
- Translation Research and Instruction Program (TRIP), Binghamton University, NY
- Translation Research Group, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
- Translation school Babel University, Honolulu, HI
- Translation Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
- Translation Studies, Graduate Center, City University of New York, NY
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, WI
- Wake Forest Graduate Program in Interpreting and Translation Studies, Winston Salem, NC
Uruguay
- Traductor Publico, Facultad de Derecho, Universidad de la República, Montevideo
Sources of this compiled list include members of FIT plus the following websites: