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	<description>A blog for information, advice, updates and thoughts on funding an international education -- for international students that want to study in the US, as well as US students that want to study abroad.</description>
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		<title>IMD Business School Switzerland Offers Scholarships for Chinese Students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[IMD is one of the world&#8217;s top-ranked business schools, located on the shores of Lake Geneva in Lausanne, Switzerland.  Truly global in scope, IMD has students from 98 different nationalities.  The application deadline for the two scholarships offered to students from China/Hong Kong is September 30.
Click the link below to learn more about the scholarship [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.internationalfinancialaidblog.com/2010/08/imd-business-school-switzerland-offers-scholarships-for-chinese-students.html</link>
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		<title>Economy Tough on International Students</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent article in The Daily 49er, the online newspaper for Cal State Long Beach, explores how the poor economy impacts international students, amid drastic cuts in California public education, a weak job market and rising tuition costs. Cal State Long Beach attracts students from around the world. Here is an excerpt from the article:
&#8220;The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.internationalfinancialaidblog.com/2010/05/economy-tough-on-international-students.html</link>
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		<title>International Student Loan Launches New Website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[International Student Loan has re-launched its website, with a new loan matching system, improved navigation and an updated design.  International students will now be matched to an appropriate loan product much more quickly, simplifying product selection and application.
Instead of requiring a student to navigate through the site to the appropriate loan product, now students can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.internationalfinancialaidblog.com/2010/05/international-student-loan-launches-new-website.html</link>
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		<title>International Student Concierge Service</title>
		<description><![CDATA[InternationalStudent.com has launched a brand new service for students who are looking for, and are researching, schools in the USA. The Concierge service allow students from all around the world to submit their details and then have schools throughout the USA contact you with more information about their school and the programs they offer.
Unlike searching [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.internationalfinancialaidblog.com/2010/05/international-student-concierge-service.html</link>
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		<title>Sharing the American Dream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This story from the online Daily O&#8217;Collegian, the Oklahoma State University newspaper, does a nice job of touching on most funding options open to international students in the US, and some of the hurdles they face.
If $40,000 does not come into Khanh Lu’s bursar account soon to pay for her OSU tuition, her dream of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.internationalfinancialaidblog.com/2010/04/sharing-the-american-dream.html</link>
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		<title>US News and World Report Releases Annual Ranking of US Colleges and Universities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each year, US News and World Report ranks thousands of US colleges and universities based on a number of factors, school input and research. Although many critics continue to attack rankings in general and the US News approach in particular, there is no doubt that it is the most influential of all college rankings. (See [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.internationalfinancialaidblog.com/2010/04/us-news-and-world-report-releases-annual-ranking-of-us-colleges-and-universities.html</link>
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		<title>Sources of Funds for International Students in the US</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Each year, the Institute of International Education publishes the Open Doors Report, packed full of information about international students in the US, US students abroad and trends in international education.
One of the tables I check out each year is the Primary Source of Funds table.  This shows the primary source of education funding for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.internationalfinancialaidblog.com/2010/03/sources-of-funds-for-international-students-in-the-us-2.html</link>
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		<title>International Student Financing in 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we did last year, we would like to provide a quick update as we start 2010 for international students looking to finance an education in the US.  We begin 2010 in a much more settled position that we did 2009, with loans available, but still with constraints to education financing as a fallout [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.internationalfinancialaidblog.com/2010/01/international-student-financing-in-2010.html</link>
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		<title>International Students in USA, US Students Abroad, both at all-time high</title>
		<description><![CDATA[International Students in the USA
The number of international students studying at colleges and universities in the USA (2008/2009 schoolyear) increased by 8% to 671,616, and the number of US students abroad (2007/2008 school year) increased by 8.5% to 262,416. Both the inbound and outbound totals, released by the Institute of International Education (IIE) in its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.internationalfinancialaidblog.com/2009/11/international-students-in-usa-us-students-abroad-both-at-all-time-high.html</link>
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		<title>4th Annual InternationalStudent.com Travel Video Contest &#8211; $3500 Grand Prize!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[InternationalStudent.com is excited to announce the launch of the fourth annual InternationalStudent.com Travel Video Contest!  Prizes are bigger than ever – the Grand Prize is $3,500 and there will be other great prizes, like an iPod Touch and a video camera.  Not to mention worldwide fame and fortune in the international education community [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.internationalfinancialaidblog.com/2009/09/4th-annual-internationalstudent-com-travel-video-contest-3500-grand-prize.html</link>
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