The percent of soft skills that improved for a majority of university students who studied abroad. 78% of respondents discussed their experience in a job interview and 53% of respondents said the experience helped them secure the job (1). Source: a study by the Institute of International Education of 4500 US university alumni who studied abroad between 1999-2017.

The percent decrease in unemployment rate among university students from disadvantaged (see 5 for a definition) backgrounds who studies abroad, compared to those who did not study abroad (2). Source: a study by UK Higher Education International Unit’s Go International programme of almost 250,000 UK university students.

The age range when people increasingly gain prosocial tendencies, cooperation with others, and reliability – agreeableness (altruism and compliance/forgiveness) and conscientiousness (self-discipline) (3, 4).