College Looks South for Students
May 11, 2014This post contains external links. Please review our external linking policy.
Moshtayeen Ahmad recently completed an internship in the International Trade Administration’s Office for Export Policy, Promotion, and Strategy.
Like many other American higher education institutions, Michigan-based College for Creative Studies (CCS) has an important corps of foreign students contributing to the school’s cultural and educational experience.
Those international students are also making an important contribution to the American economy.
When a student comes to the United States from overseas to study, it is a service export. Foreign students accounted for $24.7 billion of U.S. exports in 2013.
At CCS, international students represent 6 percent of the student body and come from 17 different countries.
In an effort to recruit more qualified students from overseas, the International Trade Administration’s Michigan Export Assistant Center helped the College sign an agreement with Universidad de Monterrey in Mexico to foster both student and faculty exchanges between the schools.
This exchange supports more than just increased exports; it also supports cultural exchange between students of the United States and Mexico. These exchanges help further develop our overall relationship with other nations.
Thanks to their positive experience with this initial agreement, CCS has scheduled two additional Gold Key matchmaking services to find new potential partners in Mexico, and intends to recruit students from additional international markets.
Helping American exporters find new partners in Latin America is what the Department of Commerce’s Look South campaign is all about!
We want to help U.S. businesses, as well as colleges and universities, that are already exporting to Mexico to use their experience as a springboard to pursue other markets in the Latin American region. The markets featured in the Look South campaign all have growing middle classes which increasingly desire high-quality American goods, including an American education.
Universities or educational institutions interested in developing partnerships or recruiting students from the region can find support from the International Trade Administration and our partner institutions. Start by visiting www.export.gov/looksouth to learn more about the available resources and consider the many opportunities ahead.
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