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EUSA PLACES RECORD NUMBER OF STUDENTS AND PREDICTS MORE GROWTH

EUSA Places More than 450 Students in Professional Practice Internships in Four European Capitals

BOSTON - May 1, 2003
EUSA, a pan-European educational services company building tailored international programs in Europe for client universities in North America, today announced that operations in London, Dublin, Madrid and Paris placed record numbers of U.S. students in professional practice internships in Spring semester 2003.

"This semester we placed more than 450 students and expect by the end of the year we will have placed well over a thousand young people in professional practice experiences," said Tony Johnson, EUSA's managing partner in London, "We predict the numbers will continue to grow as more and more students demand the opportunity to do internships abroad."

To accommodate the demands of existing client universities, EUSA will be opening an office in Geneva, Switzerland, in Spring 2005 to offer students the opportunity to live in a French-speaking environment, but work in English. Geneva offers a wide range of internship opportunities with international NGOs, multi-national companies and smaller, local organizations.

"It is important to know that even as we grow in terms of number of students placed and numbers of cities in which we operate, EUSA is very focused on taking the time to make each professional practice placement on behalf of our client universities with great care -- based on the student's studies, prior experience and professional plans," said Dr. Aden Hayes, EUSA's managing partner in Madrid.

EUSA offers internships in London, Dublin, Madrid and Paris across a wide range of industry sectors including business, media, arts, healthcare, education, politics, NGOs and communications.

"We try really hard to make the right match," said Meagan Basilius, EUSA's London placement director. Examples of Basilius' placements this spring include a journalism student with an interest in fashion with one of the UK's most well-respected fashion magazines, a pre-law student in an international investigative firm specializing in white-collar crime and a media student with an interest in advertising writing ad copy with a London agency.

"This spring I was able to place a pre-med student with an interest in obstetrics with the neonatal intensive care unit for a major maternity hospital!" said Dublin Placement Director Rebecca Woolf, "It feels really good when you are able to give a student the exact experience she is looking for."

Madrid Placement Director Alyson Silk said in regard to this spring, "My students had many, many great placements, but I was particularly pleased that I was able to place a film student with an interest in technology with a studio doing digital enhancements for the Spanish film industry."

Xavier Gonzalez del Valle, Paris placement director, said, "This Spring I had enormous satisfaction when I placed a journalism student with a French regional newspaper where the she actually writes articles in French!"

EUSA ( www.eusa-edu.com ) works with universities, departments and individual professors to build international programs based on respective institutional calendars, budgets and academic objectives. EUSA allows clients to maintains control over the design, ownership and oversight of their programs while outsourcing the logistics or management of program components to EUSA. EUSA offers clients any combination of its services which include internship, program management, academic program development and residency placement.

"We think it is encouraging that in a time of such unpredictability in the world, young American students continue to go abroad in record numbers to broaden their perspectives and enhance their resumes," said EUSA London's Managing Partner Tony Johnson.

EUSA was founded with the conviction that the varied and rich cultural environment in the European Union (EU) can open the minds, change the perspectives and build the practical professional skills of its clients' students. The EU will soon embrace 25 countries, 31 languages and unlimited possibilities for living, working and learning.