Program Gives MIT Undergrads a Year at Cambridge
The MIT Tech reports that 38 third-year MIT students have accepted places in this year's Cambridge-MIT Undergraduate Exchange (CME) program so far.
The program, which was founded in 2000, allows approximately 40 students from each university to spend a year at the other institution while paying normal tuition to their home universities. It is the only such exchange that Cambridge University has with a U.S. institution.
CME coordinator Dr. Gareth H. McKinley told the Tech that the program gives third-year students an excellent opportunity to broaden their academic and social horizons. "MIT teaches you to solve problems of all kinds and Cambridge teaches you which problems are worth solving," he said. “The combination of both viewpoints provides a fantastic and uniquely international viewpoint of world-leading engineering education.”
The Tech noted that the CME program has always drawn more applications from Cambridge than from MIT. Over 100 Cambridge students applied to the program this year, compared to roughly 50 from MIT. Reasons given for MIT students' lower level of interest in the CME include student concerns that study abroad may either interfere with plans to complete a second degree or conflict with participation in the MIT-based Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.
Source: "CME More Popular in Cambridge," by Yinuo Qian - the MIT Tech, April 26, 2006
Technorati tags: MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge University
The program, which was founded in 2000, allows approximately 40 students from each university to spend a year at the other institution while paying normal tuition to their home universities. It is the only such exchange that Cambridge University has with a U.S. institution.
CME coordinator Dr. Gareth H. McKinley told the Tech that the program gives third-year students an excellent opportunity to broaden their academic and social horizons. "MIT teaches you to solve problems of all kinds and Cambridge teaches you which problems are worth solving," he said. “The combination of both viewpoints provides a fantastic and uniquely international viewpoint of world-leading engineering education.”
The Tech noted that the CME program has always drawn more applications from Cambridge than from MIT. Over 100 Cambridge students applied to the program this year, compared to roughly 50 from MIT. Reasons given for MIT students' lower level of interest in the CME include student concerns that study abroad may either interfere with plans to complete a second degree or conflict with participation in the MIT-based Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program.
Source: "CME More Popular in Cambridge," by Yinuo Qian - the MIT Tech, April 26, 2006
Technorati tags: MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge University
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