In today's global economy, professional collaboration with colleagues and customers in other countries is important for successful careers in business, government and academia. A new study by the Institute of International Education (IIE) and the Freie Universität Berlin finds that universities on both sides of the Atlantic are working to establish more international joint and double degree programs to make their campuses more international and better prepare their students, but participation in and support for such endeavors varies widely among institutions and countries.

In particular, the study found that European campuses currently offer twice as many collaborative degrees, and European students are more likely to participate than their U.S. counterparts. The fact that 87% of respondents said that they wanted to develop more joint and double degree programs attests to the growing importance of this form of academic cooperation.

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