• Include all international intensive English students enrolled at your IEP during the 2022 calendar year from January through December of 2022.
• Include international students on temporary, non-immigrant visas, regardless of if the student was physically located in the United States.  Students may be on an F-visa, J-visa, B-visa, Visa Waiver Program, or any other temporary visa that allows for intensive English study at the postsecondary level in the United States.
• Include international students enrolled in IEP coursework through your U.S. institution from outside the United States, who may not be on a temporary, non-immigrant visa.
• Include international students enrolled in IEP coursework through your U.S. institution, who may be physically located on your U.S. campus, overseas branch campus, partner campus overseas, or in other locations.

Open Doors is a comprehensive resource for the field on international students attending U.S. intensive English programs. Below you will see all of the key student and program characteristics in the survey.

A student is an individual person and should only be counted once, regardless of the length of time they attend your program.

A student week is a question about the length of time that a given student was at your IEP.  This time is reflective of one student studying for one week.

For more information on calculating students and student weeks, please watch our tutorial below.

We define part time as fewer than 18 contact hours or fewer than 12 credit hours per term.  Full time is 18 or more contact hours or 12 or more credit hours per term.

For more information on calculating students and student weeks by full and part time status, please watch our tutorial below.

Report total numbers of students and student-weeks by visa type. Report students by F visa, J visa, M visa, B visa or visa waiver program, or other nonimmigrant visa types.

For information on who can study in the United States review the document Nonimmigrants: Who Can Study? Published by SEVP.

If an international student was not on a visa, according to your records, do not include them in this section.

If you know that an international student has a valid visa but do not know the visa classification, count them in “Do Not Know.”

Do not include students without a visa in “Do Not Know.” This category is only for students on a visa for whom you do not know the category.

For Open Doors, report the student’s country of citizenship, which may be different than their country of birth or the country of prior residence.  Please only report the student’s country of citizenship.

If you need to update your program’s contact information for the Intensive English Program Survey, email us at opendoors@iie.org.