Centre College ranked #4 in the nation for study abroad

DANVILLE, Ky.(WTVQ) – Centre College has been recognized as one of the country’s top institutions for study abroad, with a #4 national ranking in the 2015 Institute of International Education (IIE) report.

Centre has been in the top 5 of the IIE ranking all but one year over the last decade. The College has been ranked #1 in the nation twice over the last five years, in 2014 and 2012.

The 2015 ranking was based on data from the 2013-2014 academic year, which saw 365 study abroad experiences by Centre students. According to Milton Reigelman, director of the Center for Global Citizenship, about half of this number studied abroad for a full semester.

Centre runs and staffs its own long-term, residential programs in Strasbourg, France; Merida, Mexico; and London, England. In each of these cities, students live with other Centre students, sometimes in homestays with local residents, and are taught by Centre professors and local experts.

Other semester-long programs are available in Shanghai, China; Reading, England; Yamaguchi, Japan; Glasgow, Scotland; Reading, England; and Northern Ireland options at Queens or Ulster universities.

Centre students also have study abroad options through the Kentucky Institute for International Study (KIIS) for travel to Austria, Brazil, Costa Rica, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Italy, and elsewhere.

International internships, in places like Brazil and China, are increasingly popular as well at Centre College, through the college’s Centre for Career & Professional Development.

For more information about the “Open Doors” report, visit the IEE website at: www.iie.org/Research-and-Publications/Open-Doors.