21 Advantages of the international undergraduate degree:
- Prepare for living and working in a global economy
- Develop relationships with people of other nations
- Become more independent; take more responsibility
- Think for yourself
- Save college costs and, perhaps, time in earning the Bachelor's degree
- Bridge the gaps in understanding between our culture and theirs
- Give parents a good reason to travel abroad during the college years
- Develop new language skills
- Challenge assumptions in American perspectives on global economics, politics, society, and the environment
- Travel to other interesting places easy to reach from your university
- Learn to be homesick... then recover, and move forward
- Make lifelong friendships that will connect you to places and people around the world
- See what works well, and not so well, in another country
- Learn courage... and stamina... and be slow to judge others
- Construct a network that will sustain you in your education and in your career
- Change
- Become a citizen of the world and understand the wisdom and privilege of that perspective
- Become part of the small, skilled population of internationally educated workers sought after for their dynamic multicultural and cosmopolitan understanding
- Develop a sophistication and cultivation that permits you to access exceptional opportunities
- See global issues from a mature global perspective and value other perspectives
- Have faith in reasoned dialogue as the way forward in transnational negotiations