Why Study Abroad?

Studying abroad can be an exciting way to spend a term or portion of a term. But more importantly, study abroad can open your window to the world. Your own perspectives will be broadened and future employers will value your experience. Academically, study abroad offers a diversity of academic opportunities and broadens career perspectives. Culturally and socially, you will experience a different level of education traveling in a foreign country, meeting new people and visiting new places. Study Abroad promotes world peace and security, because to experience another culture is to understand it better. Study Abroad allows students to educate themselves about the ever-shrinking global marketplace. Study Abroad enriches the home-campus experience, because students return with greater abilities in learning, in problem solving, and in coping with change.

What is in it for me?

· Become more independent

· Earn credits toward your ECPI degree

· Enrich your educational experience

· Expand your knowledge of the world

· Increase self-reliance and self assurance

· Increase your ability to budget money and time, to make decisions, and prioritize

· Learn about other people and cultures

· Make contacts from other countries

· Make yourself more marketable in the workforce

· See the United States from a different perspective

· Understand yourself better

· Immerse yourself in a foreign culture

· Recognize that it is difficult (next to impossible) to travel for the amount these trips cost and what is included in the fee