Minnesota’s private colleges are leading the way in undergraduate study abroad participation, according to the latest Open Doors report published by the Institute of International Education. The report indicates that in 2004-05, of Minnesota students studying abroad 58 percent attended the 17 institutions of the Minnesota Private College Council (MPCC) compared to 30 percent [...]

Sonia Helo remembered reading about Asian life as she stood in a factory watching workers put together parts of a Volkswagen.
“It’s very different from what I thought it would be like,” said Helo, referring to her time abroad. “I went to the VW factory and saw them making the cars.”
Helo also visited other Asian businesses [...]

The Appleton Downtown Rotary Club is seeking college-aged students who wish to apply for an Ambassadorial Scholarship to study abroad during the 2008-09 academic year.
Prospective applicants live or study in Rotary District 6220, which means they are in or north of Outagamie County.
They must have either completed at least two years of college-level work, or [...]

In what may be good news for the future of the United States ties with the rest of the world, the number of Americans studying abroad has more than doubled in the past decade, and is reaching a new record this year.
According to a just-released study by the Institute of International Education, a US [...]

For one group of graduate business students at Yale, next month’s lessons will take place on pineapple, banana and coffee plantations in Costa Rica. Other Master of Business Administration students are checking out investment prospects in Tanzania and what’s sizzling in Singapore.
Yale this year became the first major university to require its MBA students to [...]

As the California Institute of Technology’s first woman to win a Marshall Scholarship, Emma Schmidgall is making a little history, but it’s a place where she feels right at home. “I’ve been to Cambridge before,” she says. “It’s like something out of ‘Harry Potter.’”
Schmidgall’s Cambridge connection began last year, when she spent Michaelmas (i.e. fall) [...]

This past summer Western Michigan University professor Mary-Louise Totton took a group of 10, primarily art students, to Indonesia.
More and more American college students like these are venturing exotic locales to learn.
Students are becoming more adventuresome as they study abroad, showing less interest in English-speaking destinations such as Great Britain and Australia and more in [...]

More than 8,200 international students received scholarships from the Chinese government this year to study in the country.
The China Scholarship Council has been making efforts to attract more international students by improving the quality and scale of education services.

For Christina Hanna, it was a Toto moment.
Not long after starting a new semester of study last winter, the UW-Madison student looked outside and saw monkeys.
“The first morning, we woke up and went out on the porch and there were water buffalo and warthogs right outside the door. And monkeys in the trees,” said Hanna, [...]

More Arizona college students are studying abroad than ever, and officials think the state will benefit as more globally aware students enter the workforce.
Nationally, the number of students studying abroad decreased shortly after 9/11, but not at Arizona State University.
And as the numbers have risen nationwide in more recent years, ASU’s have risen more.
The [...]