Having been blogging about safety and study abroad lately, I was interested\u00a0to see a study by the Forum on Education Abroad<\/a>\u00a0which shows\u00a0from insurance claim data that students are twice as likely to die on campus in the United States than while studying abroad.<\/p>\n I\u2019ll need to check the details more closely to see whether the amount of time spent in the different locations has been taken into account. If not, then presumably one could still argue that one is somewhat\u00a0more likely to die in one\u2019s one semester overseas than in one\u2019s other seven in the United States.<\/p>\n But even then, it is worth noting that in general the things that lead to student mortality abroad are the same things that lead to it in most cases in the United States: pre-existing medical conditions and accidents.<\/p>\n