Union College was ranked eighth among U.S. colleges and universities in
the number of students who studied abroad during 1994-95, according to a survey by the
Institute for International Education (IIE), which was published in the Dec. 12 edition of
The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Union last year was ranked 11th.
The College had 278 students – almost 13 percent of the enrollment
— study abroad during the 1995-96 academic year, the period of the study by the IIE.
St. Olaf's College topped the list with 514 students; DePauw
University was second with 383, Middlebury College third with 380. The IIE survey ranked
institutions that grant bachelor degrees.
An accompanying article in The Chronicle of Higher Education
reported that the 89,242 U.S. students who studied abroad in 1995-96 represented a 5.7
percent increase over the previous year. The statistics are from the organization's
annual report on international education exchange; the most recent edition “Open
Doors 1996-97” was just released.