• We are proud to announce our 12th official Master Sponsor, EF Language Schools. There are "over 20 EF International Language Schools located in the world's most exciting cities." Be sure to visit EF's web site, just a click away from the studyabroad.com home page. With the addition of EF, all of our Master Sponsor positions have been secured. We have begun a waiting list for those who have an interest in these most prominent positions.

• Our staff is growing! Our latest addition is Erica Brechemin, who joined us on September 9. Erica is a recent graduate of the Chubb Institute in Springfield, PA. She is assisting in customer support, database management and web site development.

We have recently received several e-mail messages asking who we are. studyabroad.com is a service of Educational Directories Unlimited, Inc., a campus marketing firm based in Aston, PA. In addition to operating studyabroad.com, the company distributes advertising materials on local college campuses in the Greater Philadelphia Region, serves as a distributor of posters to agents nationwide, and works as a local advertising sales agent for Directory of Classes, publisher of University class schedule books at 80 schools nationwide. In addition to Erica, two of Liberty City's staff members are responsible for studyabroad.com.

Mark Shay
Mark Shay is the president and founder of Liberty City Promotions. A 1984 graduate of Syracuse University, Mark was employed by Conrail Corporation's Information Systems Department for 5 years as a programmer and engineer. In 1989 Shay left the corporate world to start his own venture.

Mark Landon
Mark is vice-president of Liberty City and a 1981 graduate of Penn State University. Since graduating from Penn State, he has spent most of his career in media sales. Prior to joining Liberty City Promotions in April 1994, he was a retail advertising manager for Acme Newspapers, Inc. in suburban Philadelphia.

We continue to provide a web site that is student oriented and student driven. We constantly poll our users for their opinions. The feedback helps establish development priorities. The most common request we have received over the past year is: "Make your site searchable by academic subject area." So...coming soon, we will! We are currently upgrading our database structure to accommodate this additional feature.

Now we need your help. Please visit our submission area at http://www.studyabroad.com/forms/listingform.html and update our listings for your programs. It will only take a few moments and it will help make your programs more accessible to our users and more productive for you.

We are also adding program provider e-mail addresses ( another common student request) to our Free Listings. We will not publish your e-mail address unless you submit it to us using the form, mentioned above. We'll be looking for your submissions!

Our First Anniversary Sweepstakes started on September 1 and will run through the end of November. Already we have received more than 1000 entries. We would like to thank our partners in the Sweepstakes who are providing prizes. They include: AESU (discount student travel service), Sociedad Hispano Mundial, New World Telecommuations, Walkabout Travel Gear and University Educational Promotions. Many of the students who have entered have expressed interest in receiving information about study abroad programs and related services. The names and contact information for these students will be forwarded to all of our advertisers at no charge.

We are pleased to welcome the following new advertisers to studyabroad.com:

Academic Year Abroad (AYA)
Apertours Photography Workshops - Dietz Productions
Cemanahuac Educational Community
Costa Rica Rainforest Outward Bound School
CTT Languages
English a s a Second Language Institute of New College of California
International Consortium for Education
The Maritime Studies Program of Williams College and Mystic Seaport
TravelStudy
University of New Orleans, International Education

The fall marketing plan is working! Traffic to the studyabroad.com web site has been growing at an unprecedented pace since the beginning of the fall semester.

Here are some of the highlights, all reported in number of pages served.

Three week period ending September 20: 106,510 pages
(More than we served in our first 5 months on-line)

One week period ending September 20: 41,205 pages
(More than we served in our first 3 months on-line)

One day (September 10): 7,802 pages
(More than we served in our first 6 weeks on-line)

One hour (September 17, 3pm-4pm): 571 pages
(More than we served in our first 2 weeks on-line)

Following are the top ten universities in terms of usage of our system for the past 3 weeks. Shown is the number of pages requested from our server by users from each domain.

1.	Penn State University:	807
2.	University of Arizona:	773
3.	University of Washington:	695
4.	University of Pennsylvania:	667
5.	University of Michigan:	544
6.	University of Texas:	523
7.	University of Virginia:	520
8.	Michigan State University:	508
9.	Indiana University:	472
10.	University of Colorado:	460

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