US News and World Report Lists - Internships, Study Abroad, Service Learning

US News and World Report: College Edition have a section that includes lists for schools that get the nod for programs that help undergraduates thrive.

Here a few of those lists.

Internships (Schools nominated in this category require or encourage students to apply what they're learning in the classroom to work in the real world through closely supervised internships or practicums, or through cooperative education, in which one period of study typically alternates with one of work.)

Berea College
Drexel University
Georgia Tech
Kettering U
Northeastern U
Purdue
Rochester Inst. of Tech.
U of Cincinnati
U of Maryland-College Park
Wagner College


Service Learning (Required volunteer work in the community is an instructional strategy in these programs. What's learned in the field bolsters what happens in class, and vice versa.)

Bates College
Berea College
Brown
Calvin College
College of the Ozarks
Creighton
DePaul
Duke
Elon
John Carroll
Michigan State
Niagara
Northeastern
Ohio State
Portland State
Stanford
Tufts
Tulane
U of Maryland-College Park
U of Michigan
UNC-Chapel Hill
Penn
Wagner College

Study Abroad (Programs at these schools involve substantial academic work abroad for credit - a year, a semester, or an intensive experience equal to a course - and considered interaction with the local culture.)

American
Arcadia
Beloit College
Boston U
Butler
Carleton College
College of St. Benedict
Columbia
Dartmouth
Dickinson College
Duke
Elon
Georgetown
Goucher College
Indiana U
Kalamazoo College
Macalester College
Michigan State
Middlebury
NYU
St. John's University
St. Olaf
Syracuse
U of Illinois
U of Minnesota
U of Texas - Austin
Webster U