From the IIE Blog: Data on Work, Internships, and Volunteering Abroad

Christine Farrugia, Senior Research Officer with IIE’s Center for Academic Mobility Research, discusses the increasing number of US students who are seeking out short-term jobs, internships, and volunteer work overseas. "Data collected by Open Doors show a sharp increase in the reported number of students engaged in work, internships, and volunteering abroad (WIVA) over the past four years.  In 1999/00 there were just 5,584 students engaged in these kinds of extra-curricular activities abroad.  By 2006/07 that number grew to 8,584, and has almost tripled in the past four years to reach a total of 25,080 students engaged in WIVA both for-credit and non-credit in 2010/11," Farrugia writes in IIE's Opening Minds blog.

Read the full blog: www.iie.org/en/Blog/2013/August/Education-Abroad-Moving-Out-Of-The-Classroom.