In the next few weeks, college students studying abroad this fall will start packing bags and shipping out. Vaccinations, guidebooks, visas and nervous excitement most likely dominate their days. But their ranks are thin: Fewer than a quarter-million students will likely go abroad this year, less than half of the number of foreign students the U.S. will receive.

Part of the problem rests in culture. "Why would I leave? This is the greatest country on earth," a friend from Tex ...

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