Semester at Sea

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Semester at Sea (SAS) is a study-abroad program founded in 1963 and managed by the nonprofit Institute for Shipboard Education (ISE) in Fort Collins, Colorado. Colorado State University is the current academic sponsor and the program is conducted on a cruise ship. Nearly 73,000 undergraduate students from more than 1,500 colleges and universities have participated in Semester at Sea. Each spring and fall semester, up to 600 undergraduates participate in the 100- to 110-day program. During the semester, the ship often circumnavigates the globe, traveling east (across the Atlantic) or west (across the Pacific) and visiting 10 to 11 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, South America, and North America. Although the program sometimes has voyages through the Mediterranean Sea and the Suez Canal, piracy concerns in the Gulf of Aden have often caused the voyage to go around the southern part of Africa.

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