Students wanting to take their studies abroad post graduation
got an opportunity to explore the possibilities on Tuesday.
Students wanting to take their studies abroad post graduation got an opportunity to explore the possibilities on Tuesday.
The Office of International Programs hosted an international affairs graduate school information session featuring representatives from Columbia, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, Princeton, and Tufts Universities to discuss options available at their respective institutions.
“We all are about outreach and letting the students know about the opportunities we have available,” said Sidney Jackson, director of admissions at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. “We each put these sessions in our schedules to find good applicants from different schools, and promote diversity for our programs. Diversity is real important to us.”
For a little more than an hour, each representative led a brief discussion on the programs and course options available in their graduate schools.
They discussed course outlines, payment arrangements, as well as career paths to follow.
“I plan on being a diplomat of some sort,” said Chris Duncan, a freshman political science major. “I’m a planner, so I want to get all the info I need now so I can make it out in my plan.”
Duncan says that out of the schools presented, he is leaning more toward Johns Hopkins mainly because of the campus located in Bologna, Italy.
This team of recruiters has been traveling the country over the past few weeks as an effort to see the nation’s best and brightest students according to Jackson.
They have set aside four weeks to tour the southeast region of the country, which also had stops at N.C. State as well as Wake Forest University.
Jackson went on to add that they made it an effort to stop at least one historically black college and universities if they were in the area.
“A lot of students [at HBCUs] just don’t know about us,” he said. “Once we talk to them, and that light bulb goes off they realize that this is something that they can do, it’s all the more worth while.”
This is the first time this group has stopped at N.C. A&T since 2009. According to Brittany Haney, program assistance of the Office of International Programs, it is a session that was needed and wanted.
“This was a great presentation and it provided hope to students who think they cannot go to schools like Princeton or Georgetown,” she said. “I’m very happy that the students who came out were generally interested in traveling abroad and with these schools.”
The Office of International Programs offers a variety of different information and sessions regarding educational opportunities abroad.
“More people need to know about studying abroad,” said Toni Siler-Holloman, a senior sociology major.
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