Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Question:
Do people study abroad in Uruguay? I met some people from Uruguay yesterday (I asked if they were Argentine due to all that pronouncing "y" like "zh", but turns out that's not unique to Argentina) and got to thinking that I have never heard of anyone studying abroad in Uruguay. No U of Montevideo?
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Yeah, people definitely do. I know at least two people who did--but it wasn't for a junior year abroad. One did a year of high school and one did the same Rotary research thing that I did.
I don't know about a U of Montevideo but I know in Ecuador some universities don't have exchange programs since their students can't actually participate in the exchanges (since you need something like $4,000 in a bank account to qualify for a student visa if you're Ecuadorian and want to study in the U.S.). Even though they could make money off American students attending their schools (and some do, charging U.S. students a special tuition rate and not cooperating with students' home universities), lots of them opt out. It's hard to tell if it's really a decision based on principle or what. But the result (and I think this happens in lots of developing countries) is that only the super upscale institutions participate in the exchange programs and all the Americans end up being together at the same school with the children of the super rich. This is totally the case in Quito--where there are 3 universities that each cater to different socio-economic groups and the one with the study abroad program is the crazy fancy and super small one.
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