Union College was ranked 14th of U.S. colleges in
the number of students who studied abroad during 1996-97, according to a survey by the
Institute for International Education (IIE), published Dec. 11 in The Chronicle of
Higher Education.
Union last year was ranked 8th, 11th the year before.
Union had 249 students – more than 12 percent of the enrollment — study
abroad during the 1996-97 academic year, the period of the study by the IIE.
St. Olaf's College topped the list with 599 students, Colgate University was
second with 427, and College of St. Benedict/St. John third with 417. The IIE survey
ranked institutions that grant bachelor degrees.
An accompanying article in The Chronicle of Higher Education reported that
nearly 100,000 U.S. students who studied abroad in 1996-97 represented an 11.4 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
1997-98,” was just released.
Highlights of the report can be found on the IIE Web site: www.iie.org/opendoors/.