Rachel Ryan participates in Bates College Junior Semester Abroad program

2013 Dec 18

Rachel Ryan, the child of Julia A. Smith of New York, N.Y., and a 2011 graduate of the Dalton School, participated in the Bates College Junior Semester Abroad program.

Ryan, who is majoring in environmental studies at Bates, studied in Spain through the Institute of Educational Studies.

About 60 percent of Bates students study abroad, and Bates offers access to academically rigorous and culturally enriching study-abroad programs in more than 80 countries.

Located in Lewiston, Maine, Bates is internationally recognized as a leading college of the liberal arts, attracting 2,000 students from across the U.S. and around the world. Since 1855, Bates has been dedicated to educating the whole person through creative and rigorous scholarship in a collaborative residential community. With a commitment to affordability, Bates has always admitted students without regard to gender, race, religion or national origin. Cultivating intellectual discovery and informed civic action, Bates prepares leaders sustained by a love of learning and zeal for responsible stewardship of the wider world.