Visiting Students Program from China to Overseas Institutions

USIEA works with our over 70 Chinese partner universities to help students study abroad. From this network, we send more than 1000 students to overseas universities every year to attend non-degree programs.

Generally, students are enrolled into programs at overseas universities as “Visiting Students”. These programs in the United States are usually administered by Extensions, Schools of Continuing Education or Professional Studies. The students are directly enrolled in either language and culture programs, or university for credit programs, which allows students to transfer credits to their home universities in China. Students study at overseas University for either one quarter, one semester or one academic year and then return to their home university in China to complete their undergraduate or postgraduate education.   Sometimes students study 4-8 weeks Summer Session programs offered by overseas universities.

Rather than working with a wide range of overseas partner universities, USIEA only works with highly selective institutions from major English speaking countries in order to ensure our efforts are focused, and that students receive quality support. Currently, USIEA places students in the following universities:

US universities:

Boston University
Columbia University
The George Washington University
University of California, Riverside
University of California, San Diego
University of Pennsylvania
University of Wisconsin, Madison

Canadian universities:

University of Victoria
University of Toronto

UK universities:

The London School of Economics and Political Science

Australian universities:

The University of Adelaide

It is worth noting that unlike most study abroad agents in China, USIEA does not recruit students using mass marketing practices. USIEA only recruits students from Chinese universities which are part of our selective network. This ensures that students who school abroad are of the highest caliber, and will succeed while overseas.

Benefits to Chinese Students

- Short term exchange opportunities to learn language and culture;
- Opportunity to transfer overseas university credits to home university to stay on track for graduation;
- Strong foundation for applying to overseas universities for further study, such as a Master’s or PhD program.

Benefits to overseas Institutions

- Efficient: USIEA is one point of contact, which facilitates exchange of information with 70 Chinese universities;
- Effective: Potential and stable source of visiting students at the undergraduate level from a large pool of Chinese universities, with dozens to hundreds of students per year;
- Assurance: Reliable and quality students from government accredited Chinese universities;
- Quality: Every student is screened and interviewed by USIEA, and application documents are verified by USIEA;
- Potential: Visiting students are very likely to apply for Master’s degree programs at a later stage.