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Mount Holyoke's International Students Reach Critical Mass
While international students make up only 3 percent of postsecondary students in America, Mount Holyoke is ranked third-highest among national liberal arts colleges for our high percentage of international students. (This U.S. News & World Report ranking was based on last year's 13 percent international enrollment.) MHC's 220 international students---about one in every eleven women this year---bring a strikingly cosmopolitan feel to campus. You can experience it in the multitude of holidays celebrated, in the variety of languages spoken over dinner, in the globe-spanning room decor, in the diversity of opinions on any topic. "International students are woven into every segment of life," says Rivers. "They're part of our foundation, not just window-dressing."(Continued) Because this document makes extensive use of tables and text size changes, please use Netscape 1.1N or later. |
outh hadley may be the only town of 17,000 to
boast citizens of fifty-six countries among its
residents. Look around professor Vincent Ferraro's
International Political Economy classroom and you're
nearly as likely to see students wearing shalwar kameez
(a pants-and-tunic combo 
common on the Indian subcontinent) as blue
jeans. The conversation is global too, partly due to the
subject, but mostly because of who's doing the
discussing. Half the students in Ferraro's course are
international students. "It is not unusual for a
class of twelve to include women from five different
countries spread over three continents," says
Christopher Rivers, dean of international affairs.