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The US attracts 1.1million international students each year, with many keen to remain in the country to pursue a career after graduation. But what options are available for these students who wish to find work after their studies? There are two main options. One option is to enroll in an Optional Practical Training programme (OPT) while the other is to apply for a work visa. The period that you can stay once you graduate will depend on your student visa status. F-1

Social media has been flooded recently with uplifting messages of support for international students from universities and colleges across the United States.   The #YouAreWelcomeHere campaign, spearheaded by Temple University , was devised to address concerns of the international student community following anti-migrant themes in some of the US presidential election campaigns.    Staff and students at 20 US schools have recorded

What projects is IIE involved with at the moment to support refugees?  In 2012, IIE launched the Syria Consortium for Higher Education in Crisis to provide Syrian students whose education was disrupted by crisis with an opportunity to begin or continue their studies in a safe environment and provide them with the skills needed to rebuild their country in the future.   The Consortium has provided more than 150 scholarships to Syrians

US universities hold eight of the top 10 positions in a list of institutions that have produced the most Nobel Prize Laureates since the year 2000, according to a recent analysis by Times Higher Education . Stanford University is number one, producing an impressive seven Nobel Laureates this century and Harvard University comes just outside the top 10.   The remaining two institutions to make up the world’s top ten are Israel’s Technion and

America’s cornerstone college admissions test the SAT will undergo a series of changes to better measure students’ ‘real-world’ college and career capabilities. The changes seek to better measure how students are likely to perform in realistic college and employment situations, with a vocabulary shift towards words more commonly used in real-world contexts. Students will be required to more heavily draw on evidence to support their

The FBI has issued a warning to US students looking to study abroad to watch out for foreign intelligence and espionage recruitment schemes. The warning, accompanied by a 30 minute video ‘Game of Pawns’ comes in response to the case of Glenn Duffie Shriver, a former US student studying in China found guilty of attempting to provide US defence information to the PRC government after being recruited by Chinese intelligence agents. The video