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International Students Home Page
We Welcome Students
From All Cultures!
All links in this page aim to make it easier for
international students to learn about Shawnee State
University (SSU), apply for admission, come to the
United States, and enjoy their study and stay at our
university. Please access the Glossary,
as needed, for brief descriptions of terms used by SSU
and other US institutions.
Click
here
for a copy of our new printer-friendly e-brochure.
The flags hanging from the ceiling of SSU's University
Center are dedicated to the 55 nationalities of our
faculty and students. We hope to add more as merited.
Click here to view a record
of these flags
International Students Seeking Admission to SSU
Please take the following steps and submit all the
documents described below:
- An application for admission accompanied by a
$65 application fee. You can
Apply for
Admission Online
here and now. We will begin processing your
application as soon as we receive the $65
application fee. You must send to SSU
a personal check or a money order or cash (in US
dollars) in payment of this fee. Please make your
check or money order payable to Shawnee State
University.
- All official secondary (high school) and, if
applicable, postsecondary (college or university)
transcripts or actual diploma. These
transcripts/diplomas must be copies of the original
and in the student's native language and must be
accompanied by a certified English translation. If
for some reason these transcripts/diplomas cannot be
evaluated by our university, we will send them to an
evaluation service. You will be responsible for the
cost of the evaluation service.
- An official score of 500 (paper-based), 170
(computer-based), or 60 (internet-based), at a
minimum, on the
Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or
5.5 on the
International English Language Testing System (IELTS)
or 80 on the
Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (MELAB)
is required for admission to a degree program for
students whose native language is not English. TOEFL can send your scores directly to SSU. For
TOEFL to do so it will need our code. Shawnee State
University’s code is 1790.
- Proof of financial resources which are adequate
to support the student for one year. If you intend
to finance your education yourself, you must supply
a statement from your bank showing funds equal to
those required for one year. If you are being
sponsored, an affidavit of support and a bank
statement showing adequate funds for one year must
be submitted. SSU requires, in either case, that the
bank statement must show a minimum of $20,076 in US dollars.
The bank statement must be a recent statement; we
can not accept a statement that is dated more than
six months prior to the start of your studies. This
amount covers tuition, fees, housing, meals,
books and other miscellaneous expenses. To access
the appropriate form to fill out and mail to SSU
please click here
- To access a document that contains all kinds of
questions and answers about student visas to the US
and other immigration issues pertaining to
international students in the US please follow this
link
International students are required to accept the cost
of university health insurance or produce proof of
adequate insurance while in the United States.
To be assured consideration for admission, all
required materials described above must be received
about six months prior to the beginning of classes for
the term you plan to begin your studies. Those international applicants
who are accepted for admission will receive an
acceptance letter and an I-20 form from SSU. Please
note: the acceptance letter and I-20 will not be
issued until the Office of Admission has received all
required materials. Once we issue both documents to you
they are to be used by you to secure a student visa to
the United States. Important note: It could take
a rather long time to process your student visa at your
local/regional U.S. Embassy/U.S. Consulate. We recommend
that you apply for a visa as soon as you receive a
notification of acceptance by SSU.
To learn more about applying for a visa, understand current
requirements, and get updates on recent developments
visit
www.UnitedStatesVisas.gov or this site
http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/types/types_1268.html#overview
 For
further help with the visa process and
for information specific to your country, please contact
your local U.S. Embassy or U.S. Consulate/Office of Public
Affairs for referral to an overseas educational advising
center near you, or consult the list available on the
U.S. Department of State’s website at
http://educationusa.state.gov/centers.htm or use
http://usembassy.state.gov/
Contact Us for Additional Information
If you still have questions regarding International
Student admission process or about Shawnee State University in
general you may contact any of the following:
Our
Center for
International Programs and Activities (CIPA, phone
740-351-3127) which, under the direction of
Rita Haider,
Director,
is actively engaged in helping future international
students come to SSU. CIPA also
coordinates the many Shawnee State services and programs
that are available at our university in order to enhance
our international students' social and academic success
while at Shawnee. CIPA wants to assure you and all our
international students that they will have, while
studying at our university, individual attention
specific to their concerns and to their own life,
educational, and career goals.
Our International Student Admission Coordinator in the
Office of Admission,
Rick Merb. Mr. Merb will be responsible for
receiving from you all the documents required for
admission to study at SSU. He, in turn, will produce and
mail you the required documents you will need to apply
for a student visa to the U.S.
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