Monday, August 14, 2017

International enrollments in the U.S.A. - Is the sky falling?

An update from the American Council on Education's Higher Education Today ends with, "working to ensure that international students feel safe, welcome and supported on our campuses is most certainly good policy and practice." It's so good to see ACE putting the emphasis where it needs to be - making sure that international students have an exceptional experience studying in the U.S.A.

The update questions if the current political and policy environment under the Trump administration is deterring students from considering U.S.A. institutions, which has been raised in numerous other articles such as the Chronicle of Higher Education. The report indicates that it's still too early to tell but hopes are that the decline in international students will only be small and in line with the fact that students around the world now have many more choices available to them, mostly in their home countries.

In the face of the possibilities of decline in international numbers, the "You are welcome here" campaigns continue to launch to counter the negative perceptions that may be emerging among international applicants.

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