The North American Regional Academic Mobility Program, a similar effort, sends students to Mexico and Canada. For business and economics majors who would like to polish their language and international business skills, several schools now offer internship programs overseas that also supply the credits students need to graduate. Six companies recruited Suzanne Richmond before she graduated from Connecticut College last spring. At schools lacking such internships, students may be able to hook up with another university via their study-abroad office. Several schools, for example, offer business internships in Russia through a program sponsored by the University of Arizona.
Individual professors can be an informal but valuable source of foreign experience.
Alan Robinson, a business professor who specializes in management at the University of Massachusetts, takes students, usually one at a time, on foreign consulting trips during the summer and school breaks to places like Brazil, Greece, Jamaica and Russia. Robinson suggests getting the names of faculty who consult abroad from the school's business department and asking if he or she needs help. World Report Inc. All rights reserved. Read our information page . Types of programs .