"When you look at different people and you look at how the campus is unified within its diversity, for me, that's just breathtaking," senior Dongwi Dongwi said.

Westminster College boasts one of the most diverse student populations in the country. Only three other private liberal arts colleges have a higher percentage.

"We have grown our enrollment to the largest ever at 1,080 and we have 174 international students, which makes up about 16 percent," international enrollment coordinator Pat Kirby said.

That 16 percent is made up of students from 65 different countries.

"The diversity among the international population - they come from virtually every continent, very humble backgrounds, rural, urban, small villages in Nepal, big cities in South Africa," assistant director of career services Dan Gomez-Palacio said.

Dongwi is from Namibia. He said the diverse population has enriched his college experience.

It's a place you get to grow as you learn other people's cultures and you get to share your culture as well," he said.

Senior Wanlapa Komkai from Thailand agreed.

Things I never learned in my life- I don't think I would have ever learned if I stayed in Bangkok," Komkai said.

The same can be said for domestic students.

Enriches our domestic students- they don't expect to come to Fulton and be introduced to the world and different viewpoints and visions of the world that international students bring," Gomez-Palacio said.

Students learn how to deal with the ever-growing multicultural workforce because of the makeup of the school's population.

It's just transformed into the perfect model of what you're going to see when you get out of school," senior David Jackson said.

Aside from studying abroad, Westminster has the "Take a Friend Home" program. Domestic students can go home with an international student for the summer to learn the culture. Jackson lived in South Africa for two months.

"Whenever you live somewhere for two months, you get to see a lot more of the culture not just the tourist spots," Jackson said.

One of the biggest challenges international students face isn't fitting in or adapting to mid-Missouri life, it's explaining to friends and family where they go to school.

"I say, 'Westminster College,' and they say, 'Where is that?' I say, 'Missouri.' They say, 'Where is that?'" Komkai said.

"I just tell them it's like D.C. and everybody believes you!" Dongwi said.

But it's not D.C., it's Fulton. And Westminster's student body is a far cry from the all-white, all-male campus it used to be.

Westminster College will hold an international show Nov. 20 to showcase the school's many cultures.