Gillian Freedman graduated from Boston College in 2013 and served as a health volunteer in Peru.
Boston College is ranked 13th among medium-size schools on the Peace Corp’s 2017 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list. There are 19 BC alumni volunteering worldwide.
The Peace Corps ranks its top volunteer-producing colleges and universities annually according to the size of the student body. Medium-sized schools are those with between 5,000 and 15,000 undergraduates.
BC has appeared on the Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list each year for the past decade. Since the organization's founding in 1961, 786 alumni from BC have traveled abroad to serve as volunteers.
“At Boston College, the emphasis on ‘men and women for others’ stuck with me, and I saw it play out in the school life, and what students chose to give back to the community." —Peace Corps volunteer Gillian Freedman '13.
Gillian Freedman graduated from Boston College in 2013 and served as a health volunteer in Peru.
“At Boston College, the emphasis on ‘men and women for others’ stuck with me, and I saw it play out in the school life, and what students chose to give back to the community. While at BC, I volunteered for the Neighborhood Center, which does tutoring and ESL tutoring for children and adults in the community, and I also worked during my senior year for BC's Office of Health Promotion, which gave me a stronger interest in public health, and the benefits of health promotion and preventative health for populations,” Freedman said.
Service in the Peace Corps is a life-defining, hands-on leadership experience that offers volunteers the opportunity to travel to a community overseas and make a lasting difference in the lives of others.
“Peace Corps service is an unparalleled leadership opportunity that enables college and university alumni to use the creative-thinking skills they developed in school to make an impact in communities around the world,” Acting Peace Corps Director Sheila Crowley said. “Many college graduates view Peace Corps as a launching pad for their careers because volunteers return home with the cultural competency and entrepreneurial spirit sought after in most fields.”
View the complete 2017 rankings of the top 25 schools in each category here and find an interactive map that shows where alumni from each college and university are serving here.
For more information about the Peace Corps and service opportunities by assignment area, country, and departure date, visit the Peace Corps website.
—University Communications | Peace Corps