Open Door 2012: Leading Study Abroad Institutions

College Search & Selection
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<p>The new Open Door 2012 publication has been released! Students interested in international business, geopolitics, finance, economics, environmental science or any other globalized career should definitely consider studying abroad. It's well worth the cost.</p>

<p>2010-11</a> | Leading Institutions by Study Abroad Total | U.S. Study Abroad | Open Doors Data</p>

<p>The new rankings are as follows:</p>

<p>1 New York University New York NY 3,799
2 Michigan State University East Lansing MI 2,577
3 University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Minneapolis MN 2,562
4 University of California - Los Angeles Los Angeles CA 2,451
5 University of Texas - Austin Austin TX 2,350
6 University of Southern California Los Angeles CA 2,340
7 Indiana University - Bloomington Bloomington IN 2,203
8 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia PA 2,198
9 University of Wisconsin - Madison Madison WI 2,159
10 University of Washington Seattle WA 2,152
11 Penn State University - University Park University Park PA 2,087
12 University of Georgia Athens GA 2,079
13 University of Florida Gainesville FL 2,075
14 Ohio State University - Main Campus Columbus OH 1,993
15 University of Maryland - College Park College Park MD 1,975
16 University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Ann Arbor MI 1,946
17 Boston University Boston MA 1,928
18 University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign Champaign IL 1,907
19 Miami University Oxford OH 1,899
20 Brigham Young University Provo UT 1,883
21 Texas A&M University College Station TX 1,856
22 George Washington University Washington DC 1,802
23 Florida State University Tallahassee FL 1,693
24 Northeastern University Boston MA 1,643
25 Syracuse University Syracuse NY 1,636</p>

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<p>Overall numbers are meaningless. It’s rather telling that virtually all of these colleges have 18,000+ undergrads. (GWU is a notable exception, and with 10K undergrads, it’s not small.)</p>

<p>It’s more notable for a school like Goucher to have 100% of its students study abroad (it’s required) than a university like OSU or UGA sending ~30% of its juniors abroad. </p>

<p>Someone interested in study abroad should look much more closely at useful data:

[ul][<em>]Does the college support students studying on other programs, and if so, is financial aid applied toward them?
[</em>]How well does the calendar system of the university match up with study abroad programs? (Quarter systems can be problematic.)
[<em>]What percentage of each class studies abroad for at least one term? (Summer or J-terms are often used to vastly inflate figures.)
[</em>]What support is there for people with specialized needs, like pre-meds and engineers, to study abroad?[/ul]</p>

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<p>This is more useful and from the same website:
[2010-11</a> | Leading Institutions by Undergraduate Participation and Institutional Type | U.S. Study Abroad | Open Doors Data](<a href=“http://www.iie.org/Research-and-Publications/Open-Doors/Data/US-Study-Abroad/Leading-Institutions-by-Undergraduate-Participation/2010-11]2010-11”>http://www.iie.org/Research-and-Publications/Open-Doors/Data/US-Study-Abroad/Leading-Institutions-by-Undergraduate-Participation/2010-11)</p>

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<p>Both measures should be used for determining the popularity of study abroad. This is especially true for those considering careers in international business. The reputation of a business school’s students may have a correlation with the students who study abroad.</p>

<p>I was merely pointing out the new 2012 Open Door data. There’s tons of information from the Open Door database including duration of programs and destinations.</p>