INTO College Partnerships and Oregon State College (OSU) are commemorating fifteen years of a partnership that has dramatically reshaped the tutorial experiences of an unlimited array of worldwide college students.

This partnership, cast in 2008, was aimed toward amplifying OSU’s worldwide attraction. It has efficiently offered a broad spectrum of educational help and providers to worldwide college students, together with direct entry and particularly tailor-made preparatory applications for all undergraduate specialties, together with a complete collection of postgraduate levels. OSU is lauded among the many high 1.4% of universities globally and is famous for its graduates being among the many high 20% earners within the US.

Located on the historic grounds of the OSU campus, the INTO OSU Centre stands as a bustling point of interest of studying, providing college students a further layer of educational and private help, due to the unwavering dedication of its employees and school.

This pioneering initiative within the US has been pivotal in propelling over 11,900 worldwide college students from greater than 155 international locations in the direction of tutorial excellence of their chosen fields. College students supported by INTO OSU have notably achieved illustration throughout all of OSU’s tutorial faculties on the PhD degree.

Edward Feser, Provost and Govt Vice President at Oregon State College and a member of the INTO OSU Board, said: “In 15 years of collaboration, the INTO Oregon State College partnership helped convey greater than 12,000 worldwide college students to OSU. This has strengthened the college by enriching the intercultural experiences of home college students; offering help for college hires, infrastructure, and examine overseas alternatives; influencing enhancements to our tutorial program combine; and elevating OSU’s world visibility and model.”

John Sykes, CEO of INTO College Partnerships, remarked: “Our partnership with Oregon State College marked an actual breakthrough second in US public universities’ strategy to internationalizing the coed expertise. We couldn’t be prouder of our partnership and what it has achieved. It has been a privilege to observe the life-changing experiences this nice American college has delivered to the hundreds of Chinese language college students who made Corvallis their residence.”

Bob Gilmour, INTO OSU’s Govt Director, mirrored: “At INTO OSU, we’re so happy with the scholars we have now supported over the past 15 years and the vary of educational, private, {and professional} successes that they’ve gone on to attain. Over that point, it’s actually been an honor to have been part of a group of individuals at INTO OSU that exhibits up daily to place college students first and supply them with the help and expertise that they deserve.

“With each INTO and OSU’s mixed efforts, this pioneering Centre has performed a major position in elevating the requirements and expectations for worldwide pupil help in increased schooling from software to commencement and past. And as a group, we at INTO OSU sit up for the subsequent 15 years with as a lot ardour and pleasure because the day this modern mannequin was conceived.”

The enduring collaboration continues to report distinctive pupil satisfaction and retention charges. The institution of Worldwide Direct Providers by OSU in 2020, which supplies tailor-made tutorial and private help to all worldwide undergraduates of their first 12 months, has considerably smoothed the transition into their diploma programmes at OSU. For the reason that institution of INTO OSU, the retention charges for first-year college students have impressively risen to 95%.

INTO College Partnerships has been on the forefront of connecting formidable worldwide college students with premier establishments within the US, UK, and Australia. Since its inception in 2005, INTO has facilitated the tutorial desires of over 150,000 college students from 180 international locations, serving to them safe levels from globally esteemed universities.