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Going Off to College for Less (Passport Required)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/01/education/01scotland.html?hp


December 1, 2008
Global Classrooms
Going Off to College for Less (Passport Required)
By TAMAR LEWIN
ST. ANDREWS, Scotland - Isobel Oliphant felt she was making an offbeat
choice when she graduated from Fox Lane High School in Bedford, N.Y., and
enrolled at the ancient university in this quiet coastal town of stone ruins
and verdant golf courses.

"I thought I was being original," said Ms. Oliphant, now in her third year
at the University of St. Andrews. "But my high school class president came
here, too. And when I got here, it was all 'Hi, I'm from Massachusetts,'
'Hi, I'm from New York.' "

St. Andrews has 1,230 Americans among its 7,200 students this year, compared
with fewer than 200 a decade ago.

The large American enrollment is no accident. St. Andrews has 10 recruiters
making the rounds of American high schools, visiting hundreds of private
schools and a smattering of public ones.

With higher education fast becoming a global commodity, universities
worldwide - many of them in Canada and England - are competing for the same
pool of affluent, well-qualified students, and more American students are
heading overseas not just for a semester abroad, but for their full degree
program.

Ryan Ross of Annapolis, Md., applied only to St. Andrews; McGill University
in Montreal; and Trinity College in Dublin. "I knew I wanted a different
experience," said Mr. Ross, now a freshman studying international relations
at St. Andrews.

The international flow has benefits, and tradeoffs, for both sides.

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