SIIP – pronounced “sip” – is committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of your son or daughter.  We do not expect our students to have traveled alone overseas before, and so we have the resources in place to help them to adapt. 

Good planning is crucial from the outset.  Students are guided as they seek permission to transfer courses back to their home institutions even before they leave to go abroad.  I have worked at four regionally accredited universities in the US, and has visited each of our partner institutions personally to make sure living arrangements and academic standards are of the level one would expect in a US regionally accredited institution. 

When your son or daughter arrives overseas, they’ll attend orientation, which will help them to learn about the destination country.  We’ll lend them a cell phone, and make sure they have sheets for their room in their residence hall. 

SIIP will maintain close contact with your son or daughter.  SIIP’s representatives overseas will call them regularly to make sure they’re OK – and since your son or daughter will have a cell phone, you will be able to call them too.  During full semester programs, we hold two social events per semester, and three SIIP Cultural Tours, which include at least one trip to a third country. During programs which last less than eight weeks, we offer one SIIP Cultural Tour.  

Finally, you’ll notice that our programs represent excellent value for money.  Even our most expensive programs compare favorably with the average cost of attending a private university in the United States.  SIIP offers a number of scholarships, and we will help US students to apply for financial aid through their home university. 

Sincerely,


CEO, SIIP