(Bloomberg) -- Yale and Stanford universities and Dartmouth College are among schools that have curtailed international travel for their graduate business programs as the coronavirus spreads.

Yale School of Management canceled all school-sponsored travel abroad during this month’s spring break. All international travel sponsored by Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business for March has also been scrapped, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business spokeswoman Kristin Harlan said the school canceled study trips over spring break in Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines.

U.S. universities have been grappling with the outbreak for weeks, first recalling students taking courses in China and then Italy, one of the most popular study destinations for Americans. The virus has now killed about 3,200 people and the number of cases globally has surpassed 93,000.

“We’re looking at it day by day and place by place,” Harlan said.

Under guidance from university officials to cancel all gatherings between March 4 and April 15 involving more than 150 people, the school also scrapped a seed-networking event with entrepreneurs in emerging markets, scheduled for next week in Mumbai, and a leadership conference called Me2We on the California campus, she said.

In addition to concerns about Yale students contracting the virus, there is also a risk that they get stuck abroad, said Nathan Williams, a spokesman for the School of Management.

“To be stranded somewhere and not be able to graduate would be terrible,” Williams said. “Our faculty lead those trips. They could be stranded as well and the problems would really compound.”

All of the management school students need to complete a global studies requirement, generally out of the country, though an online course is available. One of the electives, called the International Experience, had students going to one of six places, including China, Japan and South Africa, Williams said.

A program in South Korea for Emory University’s Goizueta Business School students over the mid-semester break was canceled last month, according to the school.

Master’s in business administration programs increasingly are offering travel experiences as part of the degree, but trips abroad are also widespread for undergraduates and faculty.

Columbia University is suspending trips outside the U.S. led or financed by the school. Harvard University has prohibited university travel to jurisdictions with a Level 3 travel warning from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: mainland China, Iran, Italy and South Korea.

At Tuck, Dartmouth’s entire first year MBA class of 253 students, 14 second-year attendees and 18 faculty and staff members were set to leave the Hanover, New Hampshire, campus. Students had the choice of 10 course offerings March 10-20, from Armenia to Vietnam.“We believe that the risks of moving forward with these hands-on global experiences outweigh their educational benefits,” Matthew Slaughter, the school’s dean, wrote to students last week.

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