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studyabroad.com Newsletter - Volume 7

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HOW BIG?

We recently took a survey of the studyabroad.com databases. Our staff is constantly seeking out and adding new listings, so these numbers are already a little bit dated, but this should give you some idea of the extent of the information we make available.

Institutions Listed: More than 1200
Countries Listed: 116
"Academic" Programs: 1753
Summer Programs: 852
Language Programs: 339
Experiential Programs: 84

In addition to all of these listings, we also offer a wealth of information in the Study Abroad Forum (see "Forum," below) as well as information about products and services of use to students looking to study abroad (i.e. health insurance, student i.d. cards, discounted flights, etc.).

NEW LINK PROVIDES BIG TRAFFIC BOOST

A new directory, easily accessible to most people surfing the web resulted in 1000 new referrals to studyabroad.com in a one week period.

If you are using the "Netscape Navigator" as your web browser (as more than 80% of our users do), you have a button at the top of your Netscape Window which says Net Search. If you hit this button it takes you to a page on Netscape's web site which allows you to perform web searches using the InfoSeek search tool.

Infoseek has recently added a directory of selected web sites, which appears just below the little box you use to enter your search request. The directory consists of 9 topics, including "education." When a user selects education, they receive a page of links to a dozen education related sites, including studyabroad.com. This link provided 1019 referrals to studyabroad.com in its first full week of existence.

In March, Infoseek was our biggest source of referrals. Here's a breakdown of all the referrals we received from the major search tools on the world-wide web.

Infoseek: 3476
Webcrawler: 2396
Altavista: 1359
Yahoo: 920
Excite: 831
Lycos: 184
Opentext: 79

MORE DOUBLE DIGIT TRAFFIC INCREASES

Traffic to our site continues to grow at a fantastic pace. Following is the month to month breakdown of pages served and the percentage increase over the previous month:

September: 2115 pages (We went on line 9/4/95)
October: 13,000 pages (+514%)
November: 20,870 pages (+60%)
December: 29,747 pages (+43%)
January: 36,487 pages (+22%)
February: 59, 562 pages (+63%)
March: 79,580 pages (+33%)

On March 26, we served more pages in 7 hours than we did in the entire month of September!

TOP TEN LIST

Here are the top ten universities in terms of usage of our system in the month of March. Shown is the number of pages taken from our server by users from each domain.

1. Penn State University: 653
2. Temple University: 406
3. University of Washington: 404
4. MIT: 387
5. Rutgers University: 383
6. University of Texas: 375
7. Stanford University: 349
8. Tufts University: 333
9. Yale University: 329
10. University of Pennsylvania: 317

Not coincidentally, nine of the ten schools have been targets of our ongoing professional poster placement campaign.

NEW CUSTOMERS

We are extremely pleased to announce the following new advertisers which have joined us since our last newlsetter:

Air Courier Association
Appalachian State University
California Institute of Peruvian Studies
China Advocates
IDP Education Australia
IntelCross
Marymount College
Millersville University
Moscow Institute of Medico-Social Rehabilitology
Northeastern University Graduate School of Business
Palacky University Medical School
University College Dublin International Summer School
World Class Adventures in Education

THE STUDY ABROAD FORUM HOSTS "TRANSITIONS ABROAD"

studyabroad.com is proud to announce that we are now serving selected articles from "Transitions Abroad" magazine. This quality publication, dedicated to "learning, living and working overseas," is now providing us with selected article several weeks before they even appear in print.

Check out the Study Abroad Forum (http://www.studyabroad.com/forum/) which currently features two articles from the March/April issue: "Short Term Work Abroad - How to Get a Work Permit or Placement," by William Nolting and "Helping Students Plan - Study Abroad and International Careers," by Rosalind Hoffa and Bill Hoffa.

Coming within the next week will be additional material from the May/June issue.

In addition to hosting the stories from "Transitions," the Study Abroad Forum contains information for students about applying for Fulbright Scholarships, News releases relating to study abroad programs, and past issues of this newsletter.

The Study Abroad forum welcomes submissions of News Releases, articles, essays and ideas for new features. Please write to webmaster@studyabroad.com.

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Aston, PA 19014
USA

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