Carolina Alumni Review - March/April 2009

STUDY ABROAD

Spring, Summer, Fall

The Study Abroad Office at UNC provides opportunites for students to travel all across the world. The map shows the diverse travel experiences by students in the program. This does not include international programs offered by other departments.

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UNC students travel all across the participation in the Spring, Summer, and Fall 2008 Study Abroad programs.

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Eve Mc Turk sidestepped the more popular western Europe programs and went through an approved third-party provider to Budapest last spring. The junior from Scotland studied at Budapest University, where she was in classes with Hungarians and international students.

Mc Turk said she made the decision “basically on my own,” without much help from the advisers in the Study Abroad Office. She did not know other students in her program before going, and she lived with a group of other Americans — none

One of the reasons she chose to study in eastern Europe was because of the cost of living. “I didn’t want to go to western Europe,” she said. “The program in Germany was ridiculously expensive.”

A pricey semester

It’s good to be an out-of-state student if you want to study abroad — if you’re used to the higher tuition in Chapel Hill, you’re much closer to the fairly substantial cost of a semester overseas. Partly because of this, out-of-state students are proportionally overrepresented in study abroad programs — while

they make up 18 percent of the student body, they account for 26 percent of last year’s study abroad participants.

Study abroad isn’t cheap, especially as the dollar continues to suffer against other cur-rencies.

Three types of programs are offered to undergraduates: UNC faculty-led programs; exchange programs; and programs offered by other universities and educational providers. The UNC faculty-led programs are the most popular among undergraduates.