Top 10 Reasons Why Study Abroad Will Boost
Your Employment and Graduate School Prospects

10. You will expand your personal and professional network, potentially leading to internships, jobs, projects, or friendships.

9. You will be able to talk intelligently and confidently about the “global economy” and “global issues.”

8. You will enhance your “cultural competence,” your appreciation of and comfort with diversity, and your ability to relate to and understand the people and culture of another country or countries.

7. You will build your appreciation of America, your place in the world as an American, and international understanding.  You will be a great prospect for an overseas assignment early or later in your career.

6. You will strengthen your interviewing skills; your interviews will be much more interesting; and you will generate more follow-up interviews and offers.

5. Your resume for jobs or internships, and your personal statement for graduate schools, will be more substantial and compelling.

4. Your language skills will be stronger—even if you study in an English-speaking country.

3. Your teamwork and “people” skills will be stronger, and you will be much more self-confident in academic, professional, and social settings.

2. Your analytical skills, your ability to see multiple sides of an issue, and your ability to solve problems will be enhanced.

1. Study abroad will open your eyes, ears, minds, and hearts to the world and the many opportunities that await you.  It will be en enriching and memorable experience that will change your interests, skills, values, career direction, and life in ways that you cannot even imagine.