{"id":1739,"date":"2023-07-14T20:14:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T03:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=1739"},"modified":"2023-11-15T17:01:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T01:01:47","slug":"american-study-abroad-students-often-view-their-study-program-as-a-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2023\/07\/14\/american-study-abroad-students-often-view-their-study-program-as-a-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Study abroad: American study abroad students often view their study program as a holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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When American students study abroad, the experience is short-lived, often treated like a vacation. For international students who travel to the ASU for college, their experience is more different<\/p>\nAbroad in America: The unique opportunities and barriers faced by international students in the U.S. – The Arizona State Press<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

When I was taking grad courses in computer security 20 years ago, about 1\/3d of the class were international students, mostly from India. Some were upper class undergrads (meaning juniors and seniors) taking grad classes. For them, their study abroad was for the full 4 years, to earn a degree in computer science at a U.S. university. Similarly, the grad students were doing their full degree program in the U.S. By graduating from a U.S. university, they qualified for the Optional Practical Training or OPT visa upon graduation which permitted them to work in the U.S. for about 2 and 1\/2 years, during which they could also apply for H-1B visa or residency visa positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similarly, when I did my MBA, all of the international students in the program were there for the full MBA program – not a one semester study abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By comparison, most U.S. study abroad students do a summer program shorter than a full semester, some do a full semester, and a smaller percentage do a full year. Relatively few students from the U.S. do a full degree program abroad. I knew undergrads who had done study abroad and a few of them said their program was more holiday than study; that said, I also know students who were working hard and focused on learning their academic subjects and developing cultural experiences in other countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

American students may tend to view their study abroad program as a “holiday” experience while non-U.S. students view their study abroad program as important career development and potential for immigration access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-study-intern-abroad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}