Messiah College News Archive

The Open Doors report, published annually by the Institute of International Education, reveals that Messiah College is 14^th in the nation among bachelor’s institutions for sending students to study abroad. An impressive 61.1% percent of students study internationally while they’re enrolled at Messiah!

BestSemester’s Scholar’s Semester in Oxford (SSO) has awarded nine spring 2012 students with deJager prizes for exceptional academic performance. Jessica Barnett `13 and Nate Van Wyck `13 from Messiah College are among those honorees.

Essays written for the three SSO courses—integrative seminar, British studies and thesis—are evaluated for scholarly excellence by SSO faculty, and particularly meritorious essays are judged winners in each of the three categories. Winning essays show originality of conception, ease in handling primary and secondary sources, professional handling of scholarly apparatus, lucid and stylistically appropriate prose, a sustained argument and effective rebuttal of counter arguments. Read the rest of this entry »

To prepare students early for study abroad and international service, mission work, and internship opportunities, Messiah launched a new program to help all first-year students obtain a passport. County officials will be on campus to process passports in early September.