Study Abroad: Fun, adventure and other great opportunities
Study abroad is a great opportunity for students to learn and grow. It is filled with adventure and new things to do every day. It is a challenging and exciting journey that helps students enhance their personality. It helps you to know about other people's culture and how to be a part of it.

Studying Abroad Can Make a Difference
Through surveys, researchers have identified the improvement of foreign language skills, the acquisition of cultural knowledge, and a desire to travel as salient reasons students cite for choosing to study abroad. What now motivates many US students to go abroad is the desire to acquire international knowledge and experience that will give them an advantage in their careers. Today, about five percent of American college graduates have studied or worked abroad, double the number who did so 10 years ago.

The American People Have Not Gone Global
In the past three decades, every aspect of U.S. business and society has gone global except one — the American people. At the very time that vast networks of communication, transportation, trade, finance, technology transfer, and politics have made the world a single community, the American people have remained largely monolingual, monocultural, and unaware of what is going on in the rest of the world. This is creating one of the most serious and most costly problems that leaders in business, industry, and government face.

Study Abroad is as much a journey across an ocean as it is a journey into yourself
A student who takes seriously the opportunity to study in a foreign land can expect to develop the following kinds of understandings and skills:

1. The ability to communicate in at least one foreign language.
2. A better understanding of how different one culture can be from another and how deeply we are limited if we only know one way of living, thinking, feeling, and behaving.
3. The ability to set aside one's "home" culture and to bridge to new cultures in your attitudes, behaviors, and ways of productively seeing and solving problems.
4. The ability to lead America with greater understanding and confidence into the 21^st century through successful day-to-day interactions in the global workplace that has become a reality in every field and every discipline.
5. A deeper understanding of the human experience in all its varieties and global diversity.

The five qualities above are marketable skills in the corporate world, and are at the heart of what employers in the U.S. and around the world are looking for in new hires as we enter what many are calling the "global" century. On a personal level, these students will have the human understanding and global awareness that will help them to live meaningful lives as informed citizens of the global community.