Two Michigan State University students were evacuated Monday from Egypt, as protests against President Hosni Mubarak entered their seventh day.
A third student, an undergraduate studying at the American University in Cairo, had the opportunity to leave but chose not to.
"She's an undergraduate student but she's also an adult," said Brett Berquist, executive director of MSU's Office of Study Abroad. He said the student had stayed "under her own responsibility."
All told, seven MSU students were studying in Egypt this semester - five in an Arabic language program at Alexandria University, the undergraduate in Cairo and a doctoral student doing research in Cairo on a grant from the U.S. State Department's Fulbright Program.
Although the doctoral student is under the responsibility of the Fulbright Program, university officials have made inquiries into her situation. As far as they know, she is planning to stay, Berquist said.
Because there was a break in the language program last week, three students were already out of the country when the protests began last week, Berquist said. Two others caught a flight Monday morning to Amman, Jordan.
The State Department issued a travel warning for Egypt on Sunday, advising U.S. citizens to avoid the country "due to ongoing political and social unrest."
Within an hour of the warning's release, MSU decided to suspend all study abroad programs in the country, Berquist said.
The next step for the university is to decide what to do with students who had been planning to study in Egypt over the summer.
"Our next scheduled programs wouldn't be going until May," he said, "so we have some time on that."