Education USA

Education USA is a U.S. Bureau of State system of more than 400 worldwide understudy prompting focuses in more than 170 nations. Education USA is authoritatively a branch in the Office of Global Educational Programs in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA). ECA cultivates shared comprehension between the United States and different nations by advancing individual, proficient, and institutional ties between private natives and associations in the United States and abroad, and also by exhibiting U.S. history, society, craftsmanship and society in the greater part of its assorted qualities to abroad groups of onlookers.

The Education USA system advances U.S. advanced education to a huge number of understudies the world over by offering exact, far reaching, and current data about chances to learn at certify postsecondary establishments in the United States. Education USA likewise gives administrations to the U.S. advanced education group to help institutional pioneers meet their enrollment and grounds internationalization objectives. Education USA focuses are situated in U.S. government offices and offices, American Spaces, Fulbright commissions, bi-national focuses, colleges, and non-benefit associations

Education USA propelled another site in March 2015 - educationusa.state.gov

Substance 

1 Services

2 Programs

3 References

4 External connections

5 See too

Services[edit]

Education USA Serves International Students Each year, Education USA counsels react to a great many request from universal understudies. Counsels offer an extensive variety of in-individual and virtual administrations to understudies and their families in light of Your 5 Steps to U.S. Study, a manual for exploring the U.S. advanced education application process. Counsels give data on a large group of subjects, including:

The confirmations procedure and state sanctioned testing prerequisites

The most effective method to back a U.S. training

The understudy visa process

Get ready for flight to the United States


Programs

Education USA's primary project is exhorting global understudies on U.S. advanced education open doors. This is done through 'Your 5 Steps to U.S. Study'. In any case, the system likewise concentrates on helping U.S. advanced education agents to associate with understudies and is progressively attempting to connect with additional with remote foundations and governments. Generally a large portion of a million worldwide understudies enlist in a U.S. organization of higher adapting a year ago. Numerous look for counsel from a provincial Education USA consultant some time recently, amid, and after the application procedure. Around 500+ Advisers are situated in exhorting focuses situated in 170 nations. Consultants connect with understudies, teachers, neighborhood organizations, and different gatherings and people through individual prompting, confirmations visits, school fairs, and virtual counseling.

The Open Doors Report, distributed through the Institute of International Education, is a yearly enumeration of global understudies in the U.S. furthermore, U.S. understudies abroad. Education USA stores this and other examination on concentrate abroad.

Opportunity Funds Program The Education USA Opportunity Funds program helps exceptionally qualified understudies who are liable to be honored full monetary guide from U.S. schools and colleges, however do not have the money related assets to take care of the in advance expenses to apply, for example, testing, application charges, or airfare.

Every Opportunity Funds understudy experiences a specific procedure of assessment by an Education USA consultant, Regional Educational Advising Coordinator (REAC), and the Public Affairs Section of a U.S. International safe haven/Consulate. Notwithstanding scholastic capacities, Opportunity Funds understudies convey social and financial differing qualities to U.S. grounds. More than 100 schools and colleges have enlisted Opportunity Funds understudies since 2006.

The Opportunity Funds system is as of now accessible at Education USA prompting focuses in

Asia: Bangladesh, Cambodia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka,Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam

Europe: Belarus, Bosnia, Russia, Serbia, Ukraine

Latin America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela

Center East and North Africa: Egypt, Lebanon

Sub-Saharan Africa: Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Education USA Leadership Institute The Education USA Leadership Institutes bring members from select nations and world districts to the United States to expand their comprehension of U.S. advanced education, build up the devices important to manufacture limit inside their own frameworks, and draw in with the U.S. advanced education part in powerful, maintained ways. Gatherings of Ministry of Education or other government authorities, school and college heads, and other qualified members will take an interest in Leadership Institutes concentrating on a scope of convenient and basic subjects.

MOOC Camp MOOC Camps are encouraged talks around gigantic open online courses (MOOCs), Open Courseware, and other free online courses. They are facilitated at U.S. government offices, departments, American Spaces, and in other open venues around the globe. Encouraged exchanges are driven by graduated class who have taken an interest in U.S. government trade projects, for example, the Fulbright program, and/or by U.S. international safe haven/office staff who are acquainted with the course materials and volunteer their time. U.S. international safe havens and departments in more than 60 nations are at present partaking in MOOC Camps with subjects running from enterprise and school keeping in touch with science and innovation. Course substance is drawn from major MOOC suppliers, including Coursera, EdX, and Udacity and in addition from numerous Open CourseWare suppliers.

Education USA Training Institutes Education USA encourages a few preparing establishments in the United States for Education USA counselors. Every two-week Education USA Training Institute includes a Washington, D.C.- based workshop, with sessions at the U.S. Branch of State, and grounds based preparing. The grounds based preparing week offers a special open door for U.S. establishments to bring a gathering of Education USA counselors straightforwardly to their grounds.

Focused College Clubs Education USA Competitive College Clubs (CCC) are partner based exhorting programs that help the best and brightest understudies apply to aggressive U.S. schools and colleges. CCC counsels work seriously to plan understudies for the application procedure. CCCs are interested in understudies in evaluations 8-11 who are in the main 10% of their class.

CCC counsels sort out understudy exercises, including study bunches, escalated SAT and ACT arrangement, perusing assignments, addresses, and group administration ventures. Understudies sign an agreement enumerating their duties, which incorporate going to all gatherings amid the school year and summer sessions.

While there are no assurances that a CCC understudy will be acknowledged to a U.S. school or college, this escalated bunch exhorting gives additional backing to roused, high-performing understudies. Some CCC understudies likewise meet all requirements for the Opportunity Funds program. Education USA counselors additionally work with CCC understudies to build up an option instruction arrangement on the off chance that concentrating on in the United States does not work out for them.

U.S. Understudy Achievers Program (USAP) The Education USA Advising Center in Harare, Zimbabwe established the United States Student Achievers Program (USAP) in 1999. USAP helps youth arrange the mind boggling confirmation and monetary guide forms at specific organizations in the United States, while likewise making solid companions that offer common backing all through and past the affirmation procedure. Keep running by Education USA counselors, USAP has extended to a few nations since 2005. Some USAP understudies likewise meet all requirements for the Opportunity Funds program.

USAP members all have the accompanying four qualities: scholarly magnificence, showed administration potential, an ethos of offering back to group, and monetary disservice.

NeXXt Scholars Initiative The NeXXt Scholars Initiative tries to draw in and advance young ladies from around the globe in science, innovation, designing, and arithmetic (STEM) vocations by setting up the up and coming era of pioneers in science, building, and development. By banding together with 38 U.S. ladies' universities, NeXXt extends open doors for young ladies from 47 nations/domains with Muslim-greater part populaces to get a world-class undergrad STEM training in the United States close by American understudies.

To take in more about the NeXXt Scholars Program, please email nexxtscholars@state.gov or visit the project site

Outside links

Education USA

Agency of Education and Cultural Affairs, U.S. Bureau of State

Gilman Scholarship

Open Doors Report

Education USA Colombia Site

See also

Concentrate abroad

AFS Intercultural Programs

Understudy trade program

Universal understudies

ERASMUS program (European Union)

Belgian American Educational Foundation (BAEF)

Fulbright Austria

Fulbright Iceland

Fulbright Fellowship

Harkness Fellowship

ITT International Fellowship Program

Monbukagakusho Scholarship

Goodwill Scholarships

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