Inside Higher Education: K-College and travel abroad
Kalamazoo College has again been recognized as a leader in study abroad programs for U.S. college students. Based on its percentage of its graduates that studied abroad during the 2010-11 school year the college came in number 10 for the highest undergraduate participation rates in study abroad in the report published by Inside Higher Education.
Excerpt: There are 33 colleges — most of them small baccalaureate institutions — that send 70 percent or more of their students abroad. Eleven doctoral-granting universities exceed the 50 percent mark, as do 12 master’s-level colleges. Peggy Blumenthal pointed to these institutions as proof that increasing study abroad enrollment dramatically is possible. “It can be done. And it needs to be done,” she said.
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