A partnership solution, customized to meet your needs
We build sustainable, trusting partnerships based on flexibility and adaptability. With your challenges and goals in mind, we collaborate to craft smarter solutions that reduce the risks attached to internationalization. We focus on continuously improving your offering, connecting you with more top-tier students and equipping them for successful careers, while empowering your faculty to help them reach their academic potential.
Building better experiences and outcomes
Our university partnerships span three continents. Each solution is designed to reflect our partner’s strategic vision. Above all, they are built to deliver excellent student experiences, great value and outstanding outcomes.
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"The partnership with INTO provides an invaluable pathway to degree study at the University of East Anglia (UEA), widening the participation of students from around the globe. The INTO UEA Centre is a highly supportive environment set within UEA’s beautiful campus – a great preparation for students to prepare for and succeed in their university studies."
De-risking your global strategy
Our partnerships can build your capacity and de-risk your international expansion. They are built on our experience, expertise and financial security.
Their structures ensure you retain brand and academic control while benefiting from our global reach, support systems, management technology and insights.
In the UK alone, our partnerships have an annual economic impact of £2 billion for our partner universities and their communities.
"Following a competitive process, we were delighted to choose INTO to deliver our on campus international pathway programmes. We were really impressed by INTO’s insights-led marketing strategy, new market investment and unique proposition in the form of University Access Centres, but most of all, the enthusiasm from the team to work in partnership with the University."
Flexible partnership styles
Transformational comprehensive partnerships
Our comprehensive partnerships support the entire international student journey. We transform your international student offer by providing customized university preparation programs and a complete range of student support services, all supported by award-winning living and learning spaces in the heart of the campus.
Preparing your international students for academic success
We work with our partners to create integrated programs, often called pathways, that provide comprehensive support and academic preparation to international students.
We ensure these programs are aligned with our partners’ curricula and meet the highest independent standards. They help international students make the most of their abilities in a supportive academic setting.
From pre-undergraduate to postgraduate levels, these programs blend subject-specific content with advanced study skills, intensive English language support and extra tutorial help.
And the results are clear. Students report high levels of satisfaction and consistently achieve great final results.
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"From acculturation to preparing students for their academic journey in the US, INTO’s team provides vital learning support and services to international students, which are central to their success."
"UWA College has prioritized the delivery of what can only be described as a transformative international student experience."
Guiding your students at every turn
Students thrive when they feel supported and integrated into the university community. We focus on their key moments – from before they leave home to orientation to ongoing care on campus. Using our broad reach, scale and experience of guiding over 150,000 students through life-changing academic journeys, we make each experience exceptional.
When international students choose to study with you, they're investing in their futures. We promise to create a support system that ensures it's the best choice they've ever made.
Volume-building recruitment partnerships
Many universities turn to us to help them reach a broader pool of qualified international students, to manage controlled expansion or to support their admissions process. Recruitment partnerships allow you to expand into new regions, help your existing enrollment management teams and diversify your student population.
Gain access to INTO student talent through our recognition partnerships
Our colleges, INTO Manchester and INTO London, deliver programs for over 1,500 students every year providing them with progression options to almost 100 universities. In the last two years, students have gone on to study at 10 of the 17 UK universities in the world’s top 100, including the majority of Russell Group institutions.
We have agreements with universities across the UK and mainland Europe, connecting them with students from over 80 countries.
"“Electrical and electronic engineering is a very competitive career. I don’t think I would have had the chance to go to a Russell Group university and study towards this career if it wasn’t for INTO Manchester.”"
BEng (Hons) Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Birmingham
Smarter initiatives for successful career outcomes
We enhance students’ prospects by creating environments that propel them beyond academic outcomes towards a promising career. This is made possible through our:
- 18 self-led modules of employability content, available for all of our pathway students from December 2024
- think tank of international career advisors from a broad range of universities, which is finding new ways to help international students enter their target careers, and
- local career experts in our in-market, walk-in University Access Centers as part of our Return & Connect initiative. Through Return & Connect, graduating students can get helpful advice to land their dream job back home – while they’re still at university.
Solutions as diverse as our partnerships
Every program is crafted to closely match university expectations while surpassing quality standards set by regional and international accrediting authorities. Explore our case studies for examples of successful partnership models in the US, UK and Australia.
See our University of Western Australia case study
See our Queen's University Belfast case study
See our Stirling University case study
"The heart of the INTO model is true partnership. Our fundamental goal is to work in direct alignment with our university partners' specific internationalization goals."
Driving English teaching excellence worldwide
INTO University Partnerships acquired the globally renowned teacher training institute NILE - one of the world's biggest providers of training and development for English language teaching (ELT) - in 2006. NILE has 29 years of experience training over 70,000 teachers from more than 90 different countries, supporting educational professionals across all areas of ELT from teachers at primary to tertiary level, to private language schools and government ministries.
NILE's teacher training expertise includes the award-winning NILE Online division, responsible for the design and delivery of the organizations' well-established online teacher training and development program.
As well as providing training courses online, in the UK and overseas, NILE is regularly involved in the development and implementation of large-scale education reform projects around the world, having built successful links and partnerships with national and regional education ministries and with prestigious teacher education institutions globally.
