International Student Loan has re-launched its website, with a new loan matching system, improved navigation and an updated design. International students will now be matched to an appropriate loan product much more quickly, simplifying product selection and application. Instead of requiring a student to navigate through the site to the appropriate loan product, now students…
This story from the online Daily O’Collegian, the Oklahoma State University newspaper, does a nice job of touching on most funding options open to international students in the US, and some of the hurdles they face. If $40,000 does not come into Khanh Lu’s bursar account soon to pay for her OSU tuition, her dream…
Each year, the Institute of International Education publishes the Open Doors Report, packed full of information about international students in the US, US students abroad and trends in international education. One of the tables I check out each year is the Primary Source of Funds table. This shows the primary source of education funding for…
As we did last year, we would like to provide a quick update as we start 2010 for international students looking to finance an education in the US. We begin 2010 in a much more settled position that we did 2009, with loans available, but still with constraints to education financing as a fallout from…