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Global Opportunities After Graduation

There are many opportunities to live, work, or volunteer abroad. Below offers a short list that can be a useful starting point.

Teach Abroad

WorldTeach: Summer, Semester, & Year-long opportunities to teach throughout different regions of the world.

Language Corps: Opportunities to gain TESOL/TEFL training & certification while teaching abroad.

GoTeachAbroad: GoOverseas offers teaching opportunities abroad.

UCETAM: Teach in Spain

EducaMadrid: Teach in Spain

USTA - Teach in Austria

Fulbright - Teaching and Research around the world

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Work or Volunteer Abroad

Lutheran World Relief: Provides opportunities to give your time and energy to the organization's efforts around the world.

Krista Foundation: Awards fellowships for service abroad and provides a forum for reflection on the meaning of global citizenship upon the fellows' return to the U.S.

ELCA's Young Adults in Global Mission (YAGM) Program: A one-year international service and learning opportunity. In 2009, 50 young adult volunteers began service in 9 different countries around the world.

WWOOF: Provides the opportunity to volunteer on a wide range of sustainable, organic farms around the world.

Peace Corps: Volunteers serve in 74 countries in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central and South America, Europe, and the Middle East. Collaborating with local community members, Volunteers work in areas like education, youth outreach and community development, the environment, and information technology.

Mennonite Central Committee: "Relief, development and peace in the name of Christ"

Witness for Peace

BUNAC: volunteer, work and more

NPH International: Volunteer for one year minimum in Bolivia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, or Peru. Organization serves orphaned and abandoned children.

Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals (CBYX): A yearlong fellowship to study and intern in Germany

Work Study Immersion Program: Summer fellowship program in Germany offered exclusively to college students in vocational fields