Colombo, November 18,2024 – The United States-Sri Lanka Fulbright Commission and EducationUSA join educational institutions across the world to promote International Education Week. From November 18 through 22, the US-SLFC and EducationUSA , along with the U.S. Department of State and the U.S Department of Education, will invite American students to explore opportunities to study abroad in Sri Lanka and Sri Lankan students to study at U.S. higher education institutions.

These opportunities include short term study tours, semester-long exchanges, transnational education, or completing your higher education degree in the USA. To learn more about these and other prospective exchanges, please reach out to EducationUSA Adviser Sabitha George at advising@fulbrightsrilanka.org

IEW is one way we achieve the US-SLFC’s mission of “building bridges of understanding and peace between people of the United States and people of Sri Lanka through educational, artistic, and professional exchanges.”Year-round we offer scholarships and exchanges for both Sri Lankans and Americans. DuringIEW,EducationUSA will highlight those exchange opportunities through social media stories, programs, and dialogues.

Please see EducationUSA Sri Lanka and US-SLFC Facebook pages for inspiring stories of American students and scholars who have visited Sri Lanka or Sri Lankans who went the U.S. These life-changing experiences are amplified when those students, scholars, teachers, artists, or professionals share their stories with others.

Tuesday, November 19, please join our featured speaker for a presentation on “Navigating Pre- and Post-Study Processes in the U.S.” by Lauren Karplus, Assistant Director, ACES Offices of International Programs, University of Illinois. Please register at https://bit.ly/EdUSAIEWEvent24

In 2023-24, 3424 Sri Lankans went to the U.S. for higher education, up 10.2% from the year before, according to Open Doors Report 2024. And a growing number of Americans are coming to Sri Lanka to learn from and with professors, scholars, and fellow students here. That exchange is valuable to all who participate.

Patrick McNamara, Ph.D., Executive Director of the United States-Sri Lanka Fulbright Commission said, “The mutual understanding fostered by people-to-people relationships is the most powerful diplomacy. International Education Week is a chance to highlight the growing opportunities for that. In a world that can sometimes appear so divided, we are delighted that US-SLFC and EducationUSA can play a positive role in building peace through exchanges.”

About the United States-Sri Lanka Fulbright Commission

Established in 1952, the United States-Sri Lanka Fulbright Commission is an autonomous, bi-national, non-political, non-governmental commission. Throughout its seven decades of operating in Sri Lanka, the Commission has enabled exchanges for more than 2,000 Sri Lankans and Americans.  The Commission also oversees EducationUSA, which promotes study in American colleges and universities.

About EducationUSA

Administered by the United States-Sri Lanka Fulbright Commission, EducationUSA provides free advising and promotes U.S. higher education to students around the world by offering accurate, comprehensive, and current information about opportunities to study at accredited postsecondary institutions in the United States.EducationUSAalso provides services to the U.S. higher education community to help institutional leaders meet their recruitment and campus internationalization goals.

To learn more about the workof EducationUSA and United States-Sri Lanka Fulbright Commission, and its upcoming March Road Show, where U.S. university recruiters will provide information to the general public in Colombo, Galle and Matara visit: www.fulbrightsrilanka.org