Meet quality student recruitment agents from around the world sending students to the US and Canada

Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne, Miami • December 06 - 08, 2009

The United States and Canada are top choices as international study destinations and thus play an active role in the $30 billion annual international student fee industry. The US is ranked as the number one, and Canada as the 9th most popular study destination, according to IIE’s Atlas of Student Mobility.

Reinforcing this trend is the 39% increase in the number of American and Canadian education professionals attending ICEF Workshops from 2006 to 2008. There is also a strong and growing interest to meet more North American educators among ICEF-screened agents around the world.

The new ICEF North America Workshop is destination-focused and provides educators exclusively from the USA and Canada with the opportunity to showcase their programmes, schools and regions to a large group of quality agents from all over the world. There is no other event of this kind fulfilling this demand.

All student recruitment agents attending the workshop undergo ICEF’s selection and screening process which is considered to be the most stringent in the industry. Along with providing detailed information about their business and references from current North American educator partners, agents must demonstrate a clear focus on sending students to North America.

Educators are able to pre-schedule one-to-one business appointments with agents from all over the world including those from the majority of IIE’s top 20 sending countries. The ICEF version of the eSchedule PRO online appointment scheduler allows educators to select agents by country and education sector.

This is an ideal opportunity for American and Canadian institutions to capitalise on the numerous quality agents who are coming to the region specifically to increase international student enrolments in North America.