November 16, 2009

Study-Abroad Programs Diversify as Their Popularity Grows

By Beth McMurtrie

Kenneth Wong plans to become a doctor who specializes in tropical diseases that disproportionately affect children in developing countries. At the University of California at San Diego, where he is a senior, he studied malaria under a microscope. But before embarking on medical school, he wanted the opportunity to see the disease's effects on the ground.

It was only natural, he says, that his destination of choice for a semester spent studying abroad should be in