F Student Visas - Community Colleges are in the Market
Business Week reported in its January 28, 2008 issue that more and more U.S. community colleges are marketing themselves abroad in hopes of attracting foreign students who can obtain F student visas and the result is a win-win for the schools and the foreign students.
The community college keeps its enrollment up and it benefits from the multicultural exposure the foreign students provide and the foreign student gets a U.S. education with the option of later transferring to a four year program. For example, Diablo Valley College is right near the University of California's Berkeley campus, a selling point for foreign students who might want to eventually transfer there.
Community colleges are marketing not only in places like Vietnam and other South East Asian countries but also in Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Middle East.
Definitely win-win.
