The University of Evansville’s Harlaxton College is located just outside of Grantham, England, in the rolling English countryside. Harlaxton College is about a one hour ride by train from London. Engineering students who choose to spend a semester studying at Harlaxton have easy access to England’s culture, history and entertainment.

Harlaxton College is housed in a large Victorian manor where about 300 students and faculty live and hold classes. The manor has a state dining room and a number of historic state rooms where classes are held. A soccer field, sports hall, student lounges, bistro and tennis courts are also available on the grounds.

Engineering students who wish to study one semester in England are encouraged to do so during the first semester of their sophomore year. At Harlaxton, engineering students typically take calculus, British studies and general education classes. Harlaxton College is on the semester system and all classes earn credit at the University of Evansville in the same way they would if they were taken in Evansville. The engineering program requires five general education courses and it is possible to select classes at Harlaxton College that will count as required courses toward the engineering degree. Tuition at Harlaxton is the same as tuition at the Evansville campus and all scholarships and loans may be applied to Harlaxton costs.

Students at Harlaxton are encouraged to travel on weekends. The college arranges eight to ten weekend field trips to locations such as Stonehenge, Nottingham, London and Scotland. During some semesters, less frequent but longer trips are arranged to Ireland and the continent. Harlaxton has its own resident British faculty as well as visiting faculty from the home campus and other selected campuses in the United States. Likewise, students at Harlaxton come from the Evansville campus, England and various other campuses around the United States.

Harlaxton College Costs

While the tuition at Harlaxton College is the same as on the Evansville campus and all scholarships apply to Harlaxton, there are additional costs associated with travel. The typical airplane round trip is $800 and the typical student at Harlaxton College will spend an additional $3,000 on weekend trips, souvenirs and other miscellaneous expenses. Additional expenses should be less during the summer session.

MECE Students at Harlaxton, Fall 2009

Civil engineering students Wade Banning, Jake Nardulli, Aaron Ricketts, and Treavor Weaver, and mechanical engineering students Nick Black, Mitchell Levine, Anna Dasher, Eric Deig, William Radcliff, Chris Ripple, Alex Tindle, Matt Woolston, Emmanuel Omere, and Kyle Picha, along with Dr. John Parr spent the Fall semester at Harlaxton College, the study abroad campus of the University of Evansville.

Situated about 100 miles north of London in the East Midlands in the city of Grantham, the birthplace of Sir Isaac Newton, the College is housed in Harlaxton Manor, a lavish manor house built by Sir Gregory Gregory in the 1830's. The students take classes in British history and society, along with classes in calculus, statics, and structures. The manor itself provides an education in various styles of architecture, including Jacobean, Gothic, and Baroque. Students taking statics and structures courses were given a behind-the-scenes tour of the renovation of manor's gatehouse, quite literally climbing all over this impressive structure.

In addition to studying hard, the students have taken trips all around Great Britain (London, Lincoln, Wales, Scotland, Cambridge, and Canterbury), Ireland, and to the continent, including Munich for Octoberfest.