We have now split a number of the directories into additional, more specific subject areas. We have also broken many of the subject and language directories down by geographic region. This has resulted in smaller, easier to use directories.
As always, we encourage you to review the listings for your programs on-line and make sure that we have current information. You can submit new and revised listings to us on-line at http://www.studyabroad.com/update
In addition to contact information our free listings include host country, city, term(s) offered, subject area(s) offered, and a brief description.
Please call Mark Shay at 610-364-0400 and ask about our 50% combination discount available through September when you purchase advertising on studyabroad.com and Gradschools.com.
GEARING UP FOR THE ACADEMIC YEAR We are preparing to make a big splash on campuses throughout North America this fall. Our goal is to have every American college student who is interested in studying abroad look to us as their first stop in researching their options.
While our traffic through the summer has been quite strong (about double what it was last summer), we are working hard to make sure that students can't miss us when they start shopping for a study abroad or language program this year.
We are in the process of mailing 500 Adviser Kits. These kits include our user guides, holders and posters. Many of these are going out to advisors who signed up with us at the Vancouver NAFSA Conference.
We will also do our largest poster campaign ever this fall, distributing more than 50,000 studyabroad.com posters through professional poster placement firms throughout the United States and Canada. Look for these posters on your campus!
In addition, we will soon be distributing a press release announcing our annual fall sweepstakes in which we will once again give away a round-trip air fare to help a student get to his or her study abroad destination. In past years we have received press in dozens of publications as a result of this promotion.
We are also, as always, working on fine-tuning our pages to try to optimize our placement on the major search engines, as well as working out strategic links to help build traffic.
Those who subscribe to the list have the opportunity to help prospective students in need of information, as well as to potentially recruit students for their own programs. We do this as a service to our users.
If you are interested in receiving this distribution list, please send e-mail to webmaster@studyabroad.com, with "subscribe" as the subject. There is no fee for receiving this distribution, nor are you required to be a studyabroad.com advertiser.
American College Program (Switzerland)
Aspect International Language Schools
Binghamton University (SUNY)
California State University, Long Beach: American Language
Institute
Center for Bilingual Multicultural Studies
Columbus Travel, Ltd.
Drexel University, LIPA
Duke University Marine Laboratory
Fundayacucho
I.L.E.E.
Ilisa Instituto de Idiomas
Institute for American Universities
Japan Center for Michigan Universities
Language Institute of Colima
Lingua Services Worldwide
Modern Language Study Abroad
Nassau Community College
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
Seven Continents Exchange Program
SUNY Plattsburgh
University of La Verne
University of Maryland Study Abroad
University of Miami Study Abroad
University of Pennsylvania Study Abroad
A new statistic we are providing this time is unique hosts. This number reflects the number of "computers" which accessed pages on our site. This is roughly the number of individual users who visited our site. This figure is only available for months starting in October of 1996, when we began using a new log analysis utility.
Traffic in Total Pages Served:
July 1997: 137,117 (unique hosts: 28,099)
July, 1996: 68,427
June 1997: 145,747 (unique hosts: 28,648)
June 1996 (estimated): 63,434
May 1997: 187718 (unique hosts: 39,108)
May 1996: 77,481
April 1997: 183,284 (unique hosts: 37,240)
April 1996: 84,891
March 1997: 173,087 (unique hosts: 35,924)
March 1996: 79,580
February 1997: 204,217 (unique hosts: 37,822)
February 1996: 59,562
January 1997: 200,764 (unique hosts: 38,020)
January 1996: 36,487
December 1996: 115,566 (unique hosts: 23,364)
December 1995: 29,747
November 1996: 192,587 (unique hosts: 37,213)
November 1995: 21,048
October 1996: 157,726 (unique hosts: 29,774)
October 1995: 12,943
September 1996: 149,185
September 1995: 2,115
August 1996: 95,543
Here are the top 10 universities for January through May 1997. Following the university name is the total number of studyabroad.com pages viewed from computers in their system.
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