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StudyAbroad.com to Hold Ninth Annual Sweepstakes to Promote International Education; Three Students Will Win Scholarships to Study in Nice.


CHESTER, Pa. -- StudyAbroad.com announced today that it is teaming with Truman State University Campus
Situated in the southern part of the city of Kirksville, Truman's main campus is situated around a slightly wooded quadrangle. By long standing policy, the entire campus is officially "dry," meaning that alcohol is not allowed (though the president of the university has
, IPAG-School of Management, and STA Travel STA Travel is the world's largest travel organization for students and young people. Founded in 1979 by acquiring assets from the bankruptcy of AUS Student Travel in Australia including their successful UK company (trading since 1976).  to award three students scholarships to study in Nice, France during spring 2005. This is the ninth consecutive year StudyAbroad.com has sponsored a sweepstakes to promote international education opportunities among college students.

The sweepstakes grand prize-winner will receive a $2,000 (U.S.) scholarship for tuition for the 2005 spring semester at the IPAG IPAG Integrated Performing Arts Guild (Philippines)
IPAG International Public Advisory Group
 School through Truman State's Center for International Education Abroad. Round-trip airfare courtesy of STA Travel is included with the grand prize. The second prize-winner will receive a $1,000 (U.S.) scholarship, and the third prize-winner will receive a $500 (U.S.) scholarship through Truman State. Ten runners-up will receive StudyAbroad.com prize packs.

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, manager of StudyAbroad.com. "This sweepstakes is our way of promoting international education while making a student's dream of studying abroad come true."

Sweepstakes winners will be randomly selected on November 19, 2004. Students can enter online at StudyAbroad.com no later than November 12, 2004 at 11:59PM EST EST electroshock therapy.

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. Mail-in entries must be postmarked no later than November 11, 2004. For full details about the sweepstakes, including eligibility requirements, please visit www.studyabroad.com/sweepstakes.

About Truman State University

Founded in 1867, Truman State University has a long history of being recognized nationally for its innovative assessment program and commitment to providing a high-quality liberal arts liberal arts, term originally used to designate the arts or studies suited to freemen. It was applied in the Middle Ages to seven branches of learning, the trivium of grammar, logic, and rhetoric, and the quadrivium of arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music.  and sciences education at an affordable price. Truman is Missouri's premier statewide public liberal arts and sciences university. Truman ranked sixth in the nation in 2001 among master's universities for the number of students studying abroad according to according to
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About StudyAbroad.com

Online since 1995, StudyAbroad.com is the most comprehensive directory of programs currently available for student use, and is known and respected by administrators. It contains directories of study abroad and intensive language programs that are organized by both subject and destination. StudyAbroad.com also includes the Destination Portal Pages, the popular "StudyAbroad.com Handbook: A Guide to Traveling Abroad," financial aid information, and more.
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