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    International Students

    A Curriculum of Discovery

    International students who come to Grinnell encounter a broader, richer liberal arts curriculum that allows them to pursue many interests while still completing a major in an area of specialization. Students can find out more about themselves and their passions in life, while also learning to ask questions and think analytically about the answers — in short, to become a student of the liberal arts.

    For international students, it's an opportunity in the Liberal Arts to be able to be much broader than they would if they were studying in their own countries. Liberal Arts is pretty unique to the United States. It's something that a lot of students get excited about because in fact, they don't always know exactly what they want to be when they grow up. And for a lot of students, they're deciding on many different things. And many of our students enjoy and look forward to that freedom. Or when we think about the global nature of a place like Grinnell, we're talking about both outgoing students from the US who travel and have opportunities to access international venues. And students from all over the world who see Grinnell is home and become a part of our community here. And we also see the overlap. So we have international students right now who are on off-campus study programs. For example, a student from Brazil, who's studying in Senegal, a student from India, who's studying in Budapest. And so the mix and mingle of that and the learning capacity, both right here on campus and in the international site or venue is super important to the institutional mission. What I wanted from a university was definitely a fully international experience. I came in knowing that I was going to major in French and Linguistics, but the difference between UK universities and Grinnell is that at Grinnell, I don't have to just study French and Linguistics. And I never would have taken a course in Computer Science and Psychology in Spanish, in Statistics, in History, had I just gone to a UK university.

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