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Many colleges rely on the State Department advisories in assessing the risk of university-sponsored international travel and have policies restricting or prohibiting study abroad in countries with Level 4 or Level 3: Reconsider Travel ratings. Currently only 16 countries an unusual grouping of nations including Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Ghana, Grenada, Liberia, Mauritania, Montserrat, Palau, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam, Zambia, and Zimbabwe have a Level 2: Exercised Increased Caution rating, and none are rated Level 1, the lowest rating, which equates to Exercise Normal Precautions.
International education groups have written to the State Department raising alarm the revised warnings will restrict opportunities for students. ....

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