US Valparaiso University welcomes top recruiter from Sri Lanka

Senior Valparaiso University administrators were recently pleased to welcome its first-ever Lankan recruiter to its campus located in Valpariso, Indiana a suburb of Chicago – the third largest city in US.  

Priyanthi Dissanayake, Managing Director and CEO of Scholarships for USA Ltd. – Sri Lanka’s number one independent student recruiter to US – had a series of meetings with Valpo’s key officials interacted with students and took a tour of campus culminating in a signing ceremony initiating the partnership.

Valparaiso University is looking forward to partner with Scholarships for USA to recruit top-quality students from Sri Lanka starting in the Fall, 2011 semester and to see Valpariso too becoming a household name in Sri Lanka in the near future.

Dissanayake is credited with making hitherto unknown schools in US Midwest overnight popular in Sri Lanka due to her passionate and sustained promotions across the island.

Scholarships for USA is a recognised leader in Sri Lanka for recruiting the best students in the island for a selected group of US universities who partner with them. Unlike many other Lankan recruiters, Scholarships for USA only works exclusively with US schools.

In just 10 years of existence, Scholarships for USA has popularised the United States as the most affordable and highest quality higher education provider for Sri Lankans across the tiny Indian Ocean island. Operating from home and travelling to the US each summer, Dissanayake has also promoted Sri Lanka to US institutes from Montana to North Dakota to Ohio to Illinois as one of the most attractive countries for US education exports.

Solely due to her efforts, many US universities and colleges are now realising the potential for collaborations with Lankan institutes, bringing both countries increasingly closer.       

Valparaiso University is a comprehensive, private, selective university founded in 1859. Its diverse student body includes more than 4,000 students from most US states and more than 45 other countries.  In addition to its expansive undergraduate programmes, it also offers more than 40 master’s degree programmes and has its own School of Law.

Its academic programmes are accredited by the highest bodies and it ranks among the top five universities in the Midwest Region by US News and World Report.  Valparaiso is also among the 15% of US colleges and universities featured in the annual Princeton Review.

Its location combines both safety and access to a myriad of cultural opportunities. As already mentioned its location in Valparaiso, Indiana, a city of approximately 31,000 residents provides international students with safe and friendly environment and being a suburb of Chicago, Illinois, the third largest city in the US it also provides them with the best of both worlds. Please visit for more information: http://www.valpo.edu/admission/whyvalpo.php.