United States Network for Education Information ( USNEI)

The International Affairs Office houses the U.S. Network for Education Information (USNEI), which was established in 1996 as a central point of contact for information on U.S. education. USNEI also serves as the designated U.S. information center – or U.S. ENIC – under the 1997 Lisbon Convention on the Recognition of Qualifications Concerning Higher Education in the European Region. Each signatory country of the Lisbon Convention has an information center, and together these centers compose the European Network of National Information Centers (ENIC network). The ENIC network was formed to implement the Lisbon Convention and to generally promote greater mobility by providing information about a country’s education system and the recognition of foreign academic credentials. USNEI/U.S. ENIC responds to inquiries from foreign credential evaluators seeking information about U.S. education and addresses questions from foreign-educated persons wishing to work or pursue further education in the United States.