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Educational Advising and Student Services
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As authorized by the Fulbright-Hays Act, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) seeks to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries by means of educational and cultural exchange programs, including the exchange of scholars, researchers, professionals, students, and educators. ECA programs foster engagement and encourage dialogue with citizens around the world. Educational and cultural engagement is premised on the knowledge that mutual understanding, the development of future leaders, and the benefits of education programs influence societies and affect official decision-making almost everywhere in the world today. ECA programs inform, engage, and influence participants across strategic sectors of society – including young people, women, teachers, scholars, journalists, and other professionals – increasing the number of foreign individuals who have first-hand experience with Americans and with the values of freedom, representative government, rule of law, economic choice, and individual dignity while building international knowledge and capacity among Americans. The EducationUSA network promotes U.S. higher education and facilitates student mobility by providing guidance and support to both prospective student audiences abroad and U.S. higher education institutions that seek to recruit and enroll these students. EducationUSA also supports both international and domestic student success by research by engaging U.S. higher education institutions to ensure that students' experiences on U.S. campuses are academically engaging, culturally enriching, include diverse, global perspectives in the classroom, and create lasting ties between individuals today that will support stronger relations between nations tomorrow. The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) oversees the EducationUSA network, which consists of over 430 international student advising centers in more than 175 countries worldwide. The EducationUSA network supports ECA’s mission by increasing international student mobility, providing students from across the globe with access to educational opportunities, and building a broader understanding of the U.S. higher education sector among overseas student, government and academic personnel. EducationUSA advising centers are housed within U.S. embassies and consulates and/or in partner institutions that include Fulbright Commissions, bi-national cultural centers, U.S. non-governmental organizations (NGOs), international NGOs, and/or universities and libraries abroad. EducationUSA advisers provide guidance and support to international students and their families as they explore opportunities to study at U.S. college and universities. EducationUSA advisers provide guidance on the U.S. higher education admissions process and offer accurate, comprehensive, and current information about the full range of accredited U.S. institutions of higher education. Advising activities are conducted via center activities, in-person and virtual outreach in local communities, including webinars, virtual recruitment fairs, and website content. Through programs like the EducationUSA Academy and Leadership Institutes, EducationUSA seeks to develop a pipeline of college-ready international students at the secondary level and expand the capacity of colleges and universities in the United States to partner with overseas institutions around student and scholar exchange, collaborative research, and workforce development initiatives. ECA’s EducationUSA branch also funds the annual Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange which tracks the flow of students to and from of the United States and provides essential data used in calculating the economic impact of inbound international student mobility.
This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the
administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.
For more information on each of these data sources, please see the
About the data page.
No Current Data Available. Through these cooperative agreements/grants, EducationUSA’s more than 400 advising centers in 177 countries reached more than 15 million prospective students through three categories of advising services: in-center, outreach, and virtual. 14 Regional Educational Advising Coordinators (REACs) offer training and guidance to the more than 550 advisers at these centers.
The 2016 Open Doors Report on international student mobility, which is financed by one of these grants, showed a total of 1,043,839 international students studying in the United State for credit (a 7.1% increase from the previous year) and 313,413 U.S. student studying overseas (2.9% increase).
No Current Data Available.
In FY 2018, EducationUSA reached over 19.5 million prospective international students through center-based advising, outreach activities, and virtual and social media platforms.
In 2019, EducationUSA centers engaged with over 18 million students, parents, and education representatives through in-person and virtual engagements.
In FY 2020 EducationUSA successfully pivoted to virtual programming, resulting in a forty percent increase in virtual engagements across various websites and social media platforms.
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In FY 2023, the EducationUSA network, engaged with more than 935,000 international students, parents, and counselors via in-person and virtual advising sessions, connected with more than 911,000 attendees at EducationUSA and industry events, and interacted with more than 13 million virtual users across online platforms and social media engagements.
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Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
