Intensive English Programs Survey
IIE, with the assistance of two leading professional intensive English program (IEP) associations, English USA and University and College Intensive English Programs (UCIEP), annually collects national-level data on IEP enrollments in the United States, a known pathway toward enrollment in full degree programs. Programs that are not English USA or UCIEP members were also invited to participate in the survey.
Reporting institutions include university and college-affiliated programs, as well as independent entities that offer English language training. The Open Doors 2023 IEP survey reflects student enrollment during the 2022 calendar year (January 1 to December 31, 2022). Data elements in this survey include place of origin, program sponsorship, percentage of students intending to continue further (non-IEP) study in the United States, and program duration (18 hours or more, fewer than 18 hours). Both total student enrollment and total student-weeks (one student studying for one week) are captured. These two measures provide a more complete picture of IEP enrollments in the United States. Because they cover different populations, enrollment data from the IEP survey are not always congruent with IEP enrollment data from the International Student Census. Throughout the report, rates of change listed may have been controlled for changes in institutional reporting.
The Open Doors 2023 IEP survey was administered beginning in March 2023. Responses were obtained from 303 out of the 748 programs surveyed, for an overall response rate of 40 percent. As with the other surveys, not all programs were able to provide data for every variable; response rates ranged from 100 percent for total number of students to 94 percent.
| # of | % of | |
| Reporting | Reporting | |
| Variable | Programs | Programs |
| Total Number of Students | 303 | 100.0 |
| Total Number of Student-Weeks | 297 | 98.0 |
| Place of Origin, Number of Students | 286 | 94.4 |
| Place of Origin, Number of Student-Weeks | 279 | 93.9 |
| Enrollment Status, Number of Students | 289 | 95.4 |
| Enrollment Status, Number of Student-Weeks | 289 | 97.3 |
| Percent of Students Intending Further (Non-IEP) Study | 290 | 95.7 |
| Program Sponsorship | 348 | 100.0 |
Beginning with Open Doors 2014, data imputation has been carried out to account for non-responding intensive English programs. The reporting programs and those for which data were imputed together account for 47 percent of all institutions that were surveyed. Beginning in Open Doors 2017, rates of change listed for place of origin may have been controlled for changes in institutional reporting. This calculation is based on institutional year over year reporting. (See Imputation and Estimation for more details).
Open Doors is sponsored by the U.S. Department of State with funding provided by the U.S. Government and supported in its implementation by IIE.
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