71 UNL students to study abroad in Nebraska at Oxford program

Seventy-one University of Nebraska-Lincoln students will participate in the 28th annual Nebraska at Oxford program July 17 through Aug. 13.

Sponsored by the UNL College of Business Administration, the study abroad program provides four weeks of courses at the University of Oxford in England, the oldest university in the English-speaking world. Nebraska at Oxford is the university’s most popular study abroad program, with more than 1,700 alumni who now live in 39 states and 10 countries.

“The Nebraska at Oxford program is the premiere study abroad program offered at the university because of our relationship with the faculty and staff at Oxford,” said Donde Plowman, dean of the College of Business Administration. “To be able to give our students the opportunity to study at this prestigious university gives our students a competitive edge in the job market and an experience they will never forget.”

The program is open to undergraduate students of all academic majors with a minimum 2.5 GPA. Business students take two lecture-tutorial courses on British political and international economic policy called Political Economy of Britain Since 1945 and International Economics, for six hours of UNL academic credit. Non-business students can enroll in the course Shakespeare’s Dramatic Arts rather than International Economics. Lecturers for the courses are world-renowned faculty from the University of Oxford.

Cultural excursions supplement the course lectures and tutorials, including having high tea, attending the horse races at Sandown Park and a West End show in London, and experiencing a Royal Shakespeare Company performance in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Maddie Stuart, a junior advertising and public relations major and business minor from Lincoln, will share her Nebraska at Oxford experience for CBA. Stuart is following in the footsteps of her father Lee Stuart, who studied abroad at Oxford in the program’s first class in 1991.

“I grew up hearing tales of my dad’s adventures as he traveled around with friends before studying at Oxford, and I always knew I would go on the same trip,” she said. “I am so grateful to study at the oldest university in the English-speaking world, and it is the perfect time to study the politics and economy of Great Britain given recent events such as Brexit.”

The CBA website is hosting Stuart’s blog on her experiences here.

The following students are participating in Nebraska at Oxford. They are listed by hometown and the information includes their year in school and academic major.

NEBRASKA:

• Bellevue: Garrett Schaeffer, junior, management

• Fremont: Derek Assmann, junior, finance

• Hickman: Christopher Goering, junior, actuarial science

• Lincoln: Eastin Allgood, senior, economics; Roger Bien, junior, marketing; Jackson Costello, junior, accounting; Greg Dittman, junior, accounting; Caleb Dostal, junior, accounting and finance; Jessica Eisenhauer, senior, marketing and management; Matthew Foley, senior, economics and management; Xuan Li, senior, international business; Theresa McBride, senior, English; Farida Mughalzai, senior, finance; Madeline Stuart, junior, advertising and public relations

• Norfolk: Paige Marsden, senior, accounting

• North Platte: Nicholas Wilkinson, junior, management

• Ogallala: Rebecca Adams, senior, accounting; Phoebe Lockhart, junior, economics

• Omaha: Shai-ann Augustine, senior, management; Camden Bilyeu, junior, economics and chemistry; Connor Dietrich, senior, actuarial science; Marc Fleury, junior, marketing; Zachary Geist, junior, marketing; Kyle Healey, senior, accounting; Cory Keegan, junior, accounting and finance; Connor Keim, senior, finance; Austin Moore, senior, economics and management; Jack Moylan, junior, supply chain management; Carson Ohm, senior, accounting and finance; Saidurga Pavuluri; junior, business administration; Shannen Pickering, junior, finance; Adam Podraza, senior, accounting and economics; Alec Price, junior, finance; Evan Ramsey, senior, supply chain management and marketing; Eric Schilling, junior, finance; Katelyn Williams, senior, marketing

• Papillion: Nolan Bald, junior, management; Andrew Driscoll, senior, management and marketing; Tashinga Muchegwa, senior, management

• Syracuse: Nathan Zahn, senior, marketing

• Waterloo: Jacob Melcher, senior, economics and computer science

• Wayne: Erica Holcomb, senior, business administration and mathematics

ELSEWHERE:

• Carmel, California: Scott Robleski, junior, economics

• Brighton, Colorado: Megan Blunck, senior, economics

• Arlington Heights, Illinois: Emily Van Der Bosch, senior, accounting

• Batavia, Illinois: Parker Thomassen, junior, business administration

• Dunlap, Illinois: Michelle Anderson, junior, supply chain management

• Mt. Prospect, Illinois: Rachel Henk, junior, marketing and management

• Naperville, Illinois: Megan Wolf, senior, marketing

• South Elgin, Illinois: Katlyn LaCroix, junior, actuarial science

• Streamwood, Illinois: Joseph Esses, freshman, marketing

• Bloomington, Minnesota: Erin Burggraff, senior, marketing

• Lakeville, Minnesota: Sarah Lindstrand, senior, marketing

• St. Paul, Minnesota: Coleman Kramer, junior, accounting

• Woodbury, Minnesota: Alex Johnson, junior, accounting and finance

• Sioux Falls, South Dakota: Samuel Breske, senior, finance; Lillian Breukelman, junior, economics

• Yankton, South Dakota: Frae Binder, senior, English

• Katy, Texas: Cassandra Pyle, junior, actuarial science

• Beijing, China: Jingya Li, junior, marketing and advertising and public relations

• Hangzhou, China: Liwei Yan, senior, international business; Chengda Zhu, senior, international business

• Nanning, China: Jing Zhou, junior, agribusiness

• Taiyuan, China: Dan Gao, junior, finance

• Xi’an, China: BoWen Hou, senior, accounting; Ruijin She, senior, business administration; Haowen Fang, senior, finance; KeAn Yao, senior, finance

• Zhengzhou, China: Jingwen Li, junior, accounting and finance

• Cheras, Malaysia: Kah Lee, senior, economics and finance

• Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Arvindh Naidu, senior, advertising and public relations