When asked how they spent the summer break, an ever-increasing number of Yale students can reply: "I spent it overseas."
Officially Yale sent about 770 undergraduates abroad this summer for study or work. Here's a by-the-numbers look at what those students did:
209 took part in Yale language and culture courses offered through the Summer Study Abroad Programs. That is almost twice the enrollment for last year, according to program coordinator Christen Siebert. The number of courses increased from 16 to 22. Among the new territories in Yale's global offerings are Sardinia, Singapore and the Croatian island of Hvar, where 19 students signed up to study the "History of the Adriatic Basin." Paris remains the most popular summer study destination among Yalies: 65 honed their French in the City of Light.
57 were funded by the International Study Abroad program to take classes offered by other universities.
164 found internships through the International Bulldogs program, which is run by Undergraduate Career Services networking with Yale alumni around the world. Among the venues in London that offered Yale students summer internships: Royal Academy Hall, the Financial Times, the Royal Institute of British Architects and the three major political parties in the British Parliament. Museums were also popular choices for summer interns: Four students worked in different capacities at the Palace Museum of the Forbidden City in Beijing; others worked at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels and, in Mexico, the Museo del Vidrio, the Museum of Mexican History and Marco Contemporary Art Museum. Public sector jobs were at organizations such as Amnesty International in Hong Kong, Friends of Nature in Mexico and the World Health Organization in Beijing. Many Yale interns worked in community organizations in South America, India and Africa. Corporate and commercial internships ranged from Coca-Cola in Beijing and Citigroup in Brussels and Hong Kong to Ogilvy & Mather in India and Johnson & Johnson in Singapore.
Philip Jones, the director of Undergraduate Career Services, says the program is planning to expand both geographically and by number of placements it offers. Budapest, Capetown, Madrid, Buenos Aires and Montreal will be added to the Bulldogs map next year, he reports, and the program will send 300-350 Yale interns abroad by the summer of 2008.
(As a testimony to the long reach of Yale alumni in the world, it should be noted that six students interned through the Bulldogs program at Unite for Sight in Ghana and Thailand. Dedicated to promoting eye care in underserved populations, the organization was founded by Jennifer Staple during her sophomore year at Yale. Unite for Sight now has 90 chapters with 4,000 volunteers worldwide.)
99 students had Light Fellowships to study in East Asia (68 in China/Taiwan, 21 in Japan and 10 in South Korea).
21 students were invited to travel to China this summer by the Yale China Association: 13 as interns and eight as teaching fellows.
50 received grants from the Office of International Education and Fellowship Programs for internships and independent research on such topics as ecotourism in the Philippines, the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, the nomads in the Dzhungar Mountains of Kazakhstan and historic preservation in China.
80 undergraduates -- and 135 graduate students -- with travel grants from The MacMillan Center fanned out to 81 countries across the globe, alphabetically from Antigua to Zambia.
25 students participated in summer programs of Yale-in-London.
More than 60 students received Bates or other traveling fellowships administered through the Master's office of Jonathan Edwards College.
-- By Dorie Baker
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