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Why is it important to study abroad?
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Alicia
Parent of Study Abroad Student
Loyola Marymount University
Study abroad is important because you meet new people, experience new cultures and get to know different parts of the world. You learn things you are not accustomed to.
Audrey
Parent of Study Abroad Student
Loyola Marymount University
Studying abroad enables students to experience new things that they could never experience in their home country or in their household. They are exposed to a new culture...
Sandra
Parent of Study Abroad Student
Loyola Marymount University
It is a great experience and a great opportunity to travel. It allows you to learn a new culture and grow as an individual.
Bill Clinton
Former U.S. President
United States
To continue to compete successfully in the global economy and to maintain our role as a world leader, the United States needs to ensure that its citizens develop a broad...
Brenda Cox
Manager for International and Advanced Procurement
BMW Manufacturing Co.
As companies become more global, language skills are highly desirable, and now required in more positions as compared to ten or even five years ago. However, today, for a...
Kemi
Programming and Outreach Coordinator at an independent film co-op
Victoria Society of Independent Film Makers
As a child, I dreamed of traveling to far off places. Now, I no longer dream about traveling, I have stood at the Great Wall of China, held a conversation with Tibetan...
Russ Feingold
U.S. Senator, Wisconsin
United States
International education is necessary for our children to remain competitive in the increasingly global economy…Because the United States is increasingly connected to foreign...
Linda
Program Coordinator for Academic Collarboration for Underrepresented Enrollment in Nursing Program (ACUMEN) and Parent of Study Abroad Students
Clemson University
I think it is very important for young people to study abroad. Students learn about other parts of the world throughout their secondary education. If your son or daughter...
Karen Parfitt Hughes
Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs
U.S. Department of State
Before 9/11—people abroad perceived the U.S. as being uninterested in the rest of the world. Our military, cultural and economic power "buy resentment around the world." It...
Angelina Jolie
Actress and Goodwill Ambassador
UN Refugee Agency UNHCR
I started traveling about seven years ago with film. I would go to places like Cambodia… I was very nervous to call the U.N. agency at the time… So first I went to Washington...
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