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.