The University of Central Arkansas will welcome 15 Argentine undergraduate students to campus in January 2018.
Students will visit UCA from Jan. 15 to March 3, 2018 through the Friends of Fulbright program, which is a U.S. Department of State-supported program and sponsored by the Fulbright Commission Argentina, the private sector, and Embassy of the U.S. in Argentina.
The goal of this program is to send Argentine undergraduate students to higher education institutes for a five- to seven-week program where the students will study English, learn about the United States’ educational system and American culture.
The Division of International Engagement has collaborated with the UCA Intensive English Program for several years to offer high-level programs to students from Latin American countries. It is due to these efforts that Embassy of the US in Argentina and Fulbright Commission continues to select UCA as a Friends of Fulbright host university.
Having over 2,000 Argentine students apply to this program, only 280 students were selected with UCA receiving 15 of these students. Most of the selected students for the 2018 program major in natural sciences and liberal arts.
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Virginia Tech and the University of California, Davis were also selected to participate in this program.