LMEF stimulates international cooperation and students’ mobility, both outwards and inwards. Students are expected to spend one full semester in a European university during their second year. All LMEF courses are offered for credit to qualified foreign students, according to international exchange agreements.
 
LMEF has active exchange programs with the following instituitions:

•Audencia Group Nantes
• Bilkent University, Ankara
• Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat, Frankfurt am Main
• Lancaster University
• Paris School of Economics (PSE) - Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne
• Universidad de Alicante
 • Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
• Université Lumière Lyon 2
• University of Mannheim – Business School
• University of Cyprus
• University of Wollongong, Australia
• Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
• Essex University
• Università della Svizzera italiana (USI)

LMEF also offers a double degree program with the Universidade Catolica Portuguesa and Università della Svizzera italiana (USI). Italian students who complete this program spend the second year of LMEF at the affiliated university and obtain two diplomas:  the national Italian diploma of Laurea Magistrale in Economics and Finance (LMEF) and a foreign diploma of MSc in Economics.