Dive Brief:

• A new survey shows that 63 percent of international joint and dual degree programs at U.S. higher education institutions enroll students only from the non-U.S. partner institution.
• The partner countries with the most international degree programs reported by survey respondents are China, France, Turkey, Germany and South Korea.
• Joint degree programs are seen as more challenging than dual degree programs, the survey shows.

Dive Insight:

For both joint and dual degree programs, academic issues—including decisions on course equivalencies and teaching methodologies--are perceived as a greater challenge than administrative issues, such as legal, regulatory, health and safety issues. About one-third of the joint/dual programs enroll a mix of U.S. and non-U.S. students, while 4 percent enroll just U.S. students. Only 15 percent of the survey respondents reported that their institutions had a policy encouraging joint degrees and 18 percent had policies encouraging dual degrees.