After weeks of intense build up, we finally crowned our 2011 Travel Video contest winner - congratulations to Jonathan Moore for winning the $4,000 grand prize with "English Swaggin!" You can follow Jonathan on the Study Abroad Blog as he prepares to leave and then heads overseas to Edge Hill University in England.

2011 was a blockbuster year for the competition, with more entries and more interest than ever before. We also had more talent and quality amongst the finalists, so it was very hard to pick a winner. Finally, many voters expressed their preference, as the entrants reached out by Twitter and Facebook to get suppport. We thank you all for entering, and we are already looking forward to watching all of the 2012 video contest entries!

For international students who are looking to study in the USA, our growing list of featured schools is an excellent place to start when researching schools. The featured listings provide you with much more information about the school in question such as type of degrees offered, full financial aid information, enrollment information, student profiles and school photos. For example, the Ohio Center for Broadcasting has student profiles and direct feeds to their Twitter and Facebook so you can connect with them socially!

We also make contacting schools as easy as possible, with direct contact forms on the right, simply fill out the information and most of our schools will respond to you within 24 hours, sometimes even sooner! Good luck and keep checking back as we add more schools!

International Enrollment in the US Continues to Rise

The number of international students studying at colleges and universities in the USA grew by five percent to a total of 723,277, according to the latest Open Doors Report, published annually by the Institute of International Education. The report also shows that the number of US students studying abroad also increased to an all-time high of 270,604.

Chinese students were the story again this year, with the number of Chinese students in the US soaring to almost 156,000, with strong increases in the number of undergraduate students.

Read more about the lastest facts and figures in the International Financial Aid Blog.