Qualified music majors and serious performance students at the Institute of European Studies now can attend master classes and in select cases receive individual instruction at the internationally renowned Vienna Conservatory, alma mater of many of the world's finest performers. For students proficient in German, lectures at the Conservatory may be attended as part of the regular curriculum at the Institute. In addition to these music opportunities, the Institute of European Studies offers German instruction on five levels and courses both in English and German in such subjects as literature, music, art, history, psychology, business, political science, and others.
Students can also participate in internships in education and business.
A special feature of the connection with Central European universities is a four-day field study trip to Prague in the fall and to Budapest in the spring for the entire student body. The only Austrian school in the United States is celebrating its fourth year of providing instruction in the German language with an Austrian emphasis. The Austrian Society German School, founded in 1993 in Philadelphia, offers classes on Saturday mornings to kindergarteners through middle schoolers. Convinced that there were interested families living west of Philadelphia, Vice Consul Kathryn Deans Schaub decided in 1992 to establish a German program on the prestigious Main Line. She asked The Haverford School, an independent school for boys with an outstanding German curriculum, to host the German classes.