That's why the USC Marshall School of Business, for example, maintains formal undergraduate exchange programs with five top B-schools in Copenhagen, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Budapest and Singapore. The number of juniors or seniors taking advantage of these semester abroad possibilities is growing fast. It currently attracts about 40 students a year, up from just a dozen in 1998. Administra-tors are keen to send even more, but they face special challenges. There's little room for electives or foreign languages.
Every class has to count toward the degree.
Students from arts schools also figure prominently in USC's foreign study stats. This year, about 20 theatre majors went abroad, plus 20 more from cinema-TV, music and fine arts. Last year, Alterio went to Prague for a semester at Charles University. Taught by the president of the Czech film board, a successful animation filmmaker in his own right, the course prompted Alterio to switch gears from feature production to animation. Now working for Nickelodeon, Alterio, who graduated in May, says he's thinking about going back to Europe to work in a foreign animation house, such as Don Bluth in London.