Despite the need for an international perspective in today’s global economy, few college and university students take advantage of opportunities to study overseas prior to graduation.
During the 2013-14 academic year, just over 300,000 higher education students in the U.S. studied abroad, according to Open Doors’ report on international educational exchange, released in November 2015. This is one of the highest rates for U.S. students studying abroad to date, but only about 10 percent of all students will actually participate in some sort of travel-driven, experiential learning before graduating, according to the study.
