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Standards of Quality for Master’s Degree Level Programs in International Education: Ensuring Quality & Effectiveness
By David Urias, Darla Deardorff, and John D. Heyl

Over the past two decades, programmatic guidelines for undergraduate international education at U.S. colleges and universities have been presented by several national associations and several academic disciplines. However, none of these groups has ventured into the area of suggesting comparable guidelines at the graduate level.

In order to improve the educational system, one must have a set of established and mutually agreed upon criteria to assess the current quality of existing U.S. Master’s level, international education programs. Based on a national survey of graduate programs in global, international, intercultural, and comparative education, a set of standards and benchmarks are proposed by which programs may be evaluated and, eventually, ranked.

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2009 Heiskell Awards

The Institute of International Education (IIE) created these awards to promote and honor the most outstanding initiatives that are being conducted in international higher education by IIENetwork member universities and colleges.

To read about the 2009 winning programs, click here.

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