Latitudes: How Two Colleges Made It a Priority to Expand Access to Study Abroad

Both the University of Chicago and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (MA) have made it an institutional priority to give students an international-education experience. And both colleges have succeeded in getting a large share of their undergraduates abroad — but they’ve followed different paths to do so. Historically, students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM, have studied abroad at lower rates than those in disciplines like foreign languages or the arts, although their numbers have been slowly climbing.