Education USA Building Bridges between Caribbean Students and U.S. Higher Education

Bridgetown Barbados...Jan. 28, 2013 -- Though small in terms of population and geographical size, the Caribbean looms large when it comes to taking advantage of educational opportunities in the United States.
The Caribbean is one of the highest “sending regions” in the world to U.S. universities and colleges and Maria Mercedes Salmon, Regional Education Advising Coordinator for Education USA, intends to see that it remains so.
Speaking during a recent familiarization and networking trip to the region, Salmon said:
“Per capita, it’s very high compared to other huge regions or countries like Brazil – with the large population that they have, they are sending approximately 9,000 students a year. When you analyze that ratio, it’s much lower than what the Caribbean is sending.”
In fact, the Institute of International Education’s 2012 Open Doors report shows that there were 10, 987 Caribbean students in the United States last year. This topped the numbers from many other places with much larger populations such as Nigeria (7,028), Australia (3,848) and Germany (9,347). Read more...