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International Education Authority Helps Students Successfully Navigate U.S. Education System
August 5, 2014
Active in 170 different countries, EducationUSA is the world’s leading organization in facilitating student mobility between the United States and other countries, by promoting the study abroad of international students to the United States and helping foster partnerships between U.S. and international universities to increase the number of U.S. students studying abroad. The advisers at EducationUSA’s 400 worldwide advising centers, supported by the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Cultural Affairs, assist international students with accurate, comprehensive, and current information about how to apply to U.S. colleges and universities. Advisers give information and orientation on university selection, application, and visa processes, in addition to providing exam preparation and translation services. EducationUSA offices are located at U.S. Embassies or Consulates, Fulbright Commissions, binational cultural centers, NGOs, and universities throughout the world.
Educational advisers utilize tutorials, webinars, and in-presence advising to help students navigate the U.S. education system, while simultaneously encouraging broad-reaching institutional exchanges and partnerships between international and U.S. colleges and universities. As an authority on international education, EducationUSA regularly advises international and American institutions on how to engage and promote a successful international student community.
Rita Moriconi, Regional Educational Advising Coordinator of EducationUSA’s southern cone South America branch, explained how the organization helps students select the best college for their needs: “Out of the 4,700 US universities that they can choose from, we want them to feel free to choose any of those accredited U.S. universities. We want to give them the tools so that they can make the best choice and be very successful when they are studying in the U.S.” EducationUSA’s services are comprehensive, and students applying to the Brazil Scientific Mobility Program have appreciated the specialized advice on applying for programs in the STEM fields at all academic levels.
EducationUSA strives to make U.S. education available to all interested international students, and is proud to offer the EducationUSA Brazil Opportunity Program, an initiative that provides need-based grants to upfront costs of applying to U.S. universities to deserving Brazilian applicants. Thanks to this generous program, bright students like Renan Ferreirinha are given the opportunity to pursue higher education at American universities. With extensive assistance and advising through his EducationUSA Opportunity grant, Renan, who would not have been able to afford the numerous application and entrance exam fees, applied and was admitted to Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell, and Yale. After completing his studies at Harvard, Renan looks forward to returning to Brazil to create his own foundation to facilitate education opportunities for disadvantaged Brazilian students.
EducationUSA has also been very actively involved with FAUBAI, the Forum of Brazilian universities that receive international students, bringing U.S. universities to participate in match making events to foster partnerships between universities in the two countries. Also, EducationUSA and the U.S. Mission in Brazil have encouraged U.S. associations such as NAFSA (Association of International Educators), AASCU (American Association of State Colleges and Universities), the Forum on Education Abroad, AACRAO, Partners of the America, as well as several U.S. university delegations to participate in conferences in Brazil to connect with Brazilian associations. AASCU has established a partnership with ABRUEN, the Brazilian State Universities Association for the exchange of both Brazilian and U.S. students. NAFSA and Partners of the America are working with the U.S. State Department to promote 100,000 Strong, a U.S. presidential initiative, in which President Obama wants to bring 100,000 Latin American and Caribbean students to the United States and send 100,000 U.S. students to Latin America and the Caribbean in the next 10 years.
EducationUSA has also promoted educational fairs, bringing U.S. universities to recruit Brazilian students and also wearing the study abroad hat to establish partnerships with Brazilian universities. The next EducationUSA fairs in Brazil are from August 30th to September 4th in Brasilia, Rio and SP (www.educationusafair.org) with 70 U.S. universities participating broadcasting graduate and undergraduate programs. For more information about EducationUSA, www.educationusa.state.gov and look through Your 5-Steps to U.S. Study.
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"We want to give students the tools so that they can make the best choice and be very successful when they are studying in the U.S.”
- R. Moriconi
In Brazil, EducationUSA maintains 29 advising centers, ten of which are located at Brazilian universities and 19 at binational centers. Last year alone, EducationUSA in Brazil held over 86,000 advising sessions for students applying to the program. In one month prior to the Brazil Scientific Mobility Program deadline for the Brazilian government scholarships, the EducationUSA tutorials received 265,000 viewers from all over the country.
