LU has many well-established collaborations with North American universities, and other external stakeholders, such as embassies and partner companies operating in North America.

Among LU's partner universities, special focus is dedicated to the deepened collaborations with the University of California, Berkeley and Rockefeller University in the USA, as well as with the University of Toronto in Canada.

Lund University has 32 student exchange agreements with Canadian universities, of which 11 are university-wide, and 40 student exchange agreements with American universities, of which 21 are university-wide. The university also has agreements for commissioned education, so-called Study Abroad agreements, with American universities, at both university-wide and faculty/institutional levels.

LU’s multifaceted collaboration with the University of Denver, includes an agreement for commissioned education (Study Abroad), a bilateral student exchange agreement, and a cooperation agreement for 3+1+1.

Read more about 3+1+1 with the University of Denver

Universitas 21 (U21)

U21 is a leading global network of research-intensive universities that encourages its members to share best practices and collaborate across borders. U21 has four members in North America:

• McMaster University (Canada)
• University of California at Davis (USA)
• University of Connecticut (USA)
• University of Maryland (USA)

For each institution, there are university-wide declarations of intent, so-called 'Memorandum of Understanding', and student mobility agreements. 

Sweden-USA Project for Collaboration, Academic Leadership & Innovation in Higher Education (CALIE)

CALIE was a Swedish–American collaboration project regarding academic leadership and strategic innovation of education that ran from 2019 to 2021.

Participating universities:

• Lund University
• Stockholm University
• University of Gothenburg
• Uppsala University
• Stanford University
• UC Berkeley
• University of Washington

Project results and documentation are available on the project website

Research collaborations with North America are a strong tool for internationalisation. USA is LU’s largest global co-publishing partner, while Canada ranks 14th. LU researchers co-publish most with the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Harvard University, Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania in the USA. In Canada, researchers at LU collaborate the most with colleagues at the University of Toronto, the University of British Columbia, McGill University, McMaster University and Laval University.