<p>With a really good study abroad program.</p>
<p>I don't necessarily care about it's ranking on US News or whatnot.</p>
<p>Elon is known for it. So is Kalamazoo, I think.</p>
<p>No offense, but that's not a good way to choose a school. Most schools will allow you to study abroad wherever you want. </p>
<p>Disregard what you hear about "Tufts has great study abroad programs" or "Swarthmore offers so many options" because you can choose pretty much any country as long as you get it approved. </p>
<p>One thing to check out is how many students study abroad, however. My school sends ~48% abroad, whereas some schools send as few as 2% or or as many as 100%.</p>
<p>^Agree with the last statement by warblers that percentage of participation is an important factor. A high percentage generally means how much study abroad is encouraged and supported by the college. S is at Kalamazoo where there's 85+% who do at least one term abroad. It's very high on the college's priority list. They do everything possible to make it happen for all interested students so it's the norm on campus. That includes things like fees which don't exceed the cost of staying on campus for the equivalent time period, applying merit scholarships to the study abroad term, transferral of credits toward the degree, courses that can be used to fulfill graduation distribution requirements, etc.</p>
<p>I thinkl you'll find a high number of people who study abroad at Dickinson.</p>
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I should've included a caveat for this. If you're considering any schools on the quarter system, I would recommend that you examine their programs very closely. These schools often clash with the semester systems of most overseas programs, so in that case it's usually easiest to go for the whole year or go through the home university's programs.</p>
<p>warblers, I'm not sure the quarter system presents any significant issue. My son is also at Kalamazoo (attracted both by the fact that it's an excellent LAC and also specifically by its tremendous study abroad program). K is on quarters, but the first starts and ends before Christmas, and the second and third start after New Year's. So there's really no schedule clash with overseas "semester" terms.</p>
<p>Syracuse has one of the largest study abroad programs available. The plus of it is that many students at other colleges register through Syracuse's program, but get the credit through their own schools. So although Syracuse's program may one of the biggest, you don't have to go there to utilize it. Here's a list of schools that participate through Syracuse: <a href="http://suabroad.syr.edu/studyAbroadAdvisors/affiliatedSchools%5B/url%5D">http://suabroad.syr.edu/studyAbroadAdvisors/affiliatedSchools</a></p>
<p>MilwDad- Good to know. I was mostly thinking of Chicago, which offers its own study abroad [url=<a href="http://study-abroad.uchicago.edu/programs/index.html%5Dprograms%5B/url">http://study-abroad.uchicago.edu/programs/index.html]programs[/url</a>] to coordinate with the quarter system.</p>
<p>Georgetown has villas in Florence :)</p>
<p>Goucher C requires students to study abroad.</p>