Effective September 1, new student visa rules will be in effect in the UK. Under the old rules, most students did not need a visa and if you were studying for more than 6 months, you needed to get entry clearance. Read more here:  New Student Visa Rules for the UK

Although it hasn’t yet joined the ranks of need-blind admissions for international students, officials at Brown University recently approved a dramatic increase in the amount of financial aid available to international students. The new budget approved last week will add $1.3 million to the existing $3.1 million in financial aid for international students, according to a report today in the Brown Daily Herald. Very few schools (about 35, out of thousands) are able to offer need-blind admissions [...]

This week InternationalStudent.com launched a new Study Abroad Blog . For starters it will feature Matt Brattin, winner of the InternationalStudent.com travel contest, as he prepares to go to Spain this summer to begin his MBA at Esade. Matt has a unique tone and outlook and his writing promises to be funny and insightful — check out his first post Excerpt from: New Study Abroad Blog and Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Scholarships

In the series of posts about international students working in the US, we explained generally how difficult it is to work while in the US. You can see those 5 posts here: On-Campus , Severe Economic Hardship , OPT , CPT , International Institution But there are exceptions to every rule, and this one is no different. There are a few well-structured internship programs in the US, that allow graduate international students to earn a significant amount of money while studying Read more here:  Internship [...]