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[00:00.04]Ukrainian students seeking to attend college in the United States

[00:06.16]are receiving assistance from many American schools.

[00:11.64]A recent report covering 559 schools

[00:16.92]found that at least 120 universities

[00:21.40]are offering some kind of assistance to Ukrainian students.

[00:27.20]The nonprofit Institute of International Education (IIE)

[00:33.64]prepared the report.

[00:35.88]The assistance includes extra time to complete applications

[00:42.52]and eased requirements to provide some official documents.

[00:48.44]U.S. colleges have also expanded financial aid

[00:54.04]and increased the number of positions for Ukrainian students.

[01:00.00]The University of Chicago launched a $20 million program

[01:06.12]that includes tuition for Ukrainian students.

[01:10.24]Texas A&M is also providing assistance for tuition and living costs.

[01:18.60]Hampton University in Virginia invited up to 100 students

[01:24.84]affected by the war to study for free during the summer.

[01:30.16]As the war in Ukraine enters its sixth month,

[01:35.28]some students are now arriving at U.S. colleges to begin the school year.

[01:41.64]Jason Czyz, co-president at IIE,

[01:46.32]called U.S. higher education a "safe haven" for international students.

[01:53.48]The Ukrainian students had to overcome many barriers to reach America.

[02:00.32]The U.S. embassy in Kyiv is not issuing student visas.

[02:06.80]Students were forced to visit diplomatic offices elsewhere.

[02:12.16]Making such a trip is especially difficult for men,

[02:17.28]who must prove they are students to avoid serving in the military.

[02:23.20]Eighteen-year-old Oleksandr Sinhayivskyy is one example.

[02:29.88]The young man will attend Georgetown University

[02:34.24]in Washington D.C. this fall.

[02:37.24]He ended up traveling to Romania to get a visa

[02:41.96]and Georgetown paid for his hotel stay.

[02:46.44]Sinhayivskyy told Reuters news agency

[02:50.84]he had planned to study business at Georgetown.

[02:54.96]But after experiencing the destruction in his country,

[02:59.68]he decided to study international relations

[03:03.64]and become a politician in Ukraine.

[03:07.60]"I did not change the direction

[03:10.80]with my own compass," Sinhayivskyy said.

[03:15.04]Instead, he said the events happening in his country

[03:19.12]had pointed him in another direction.

[03:22.32]Another student, Hlib Burtsev,

[03:26.00]imagined himself filming his reaction

[03:29.60]to the application decisions from U.S. universities.

[03:34.04]But when those decisions came,

[03:37.28]the 18-year-old was often sitting in a windowless room

[03:42.04]or bomb shelter in Kyiv.

[03:45.68]About a month after Russia invaded Ukraine,

[03:49.72]Burtsev was accepted into Rhode Island's Brown University for this fall.

[03:56.00]The school also invited him to attend school for the summer

[04:01.56]and paid for his food, flights and housing.

[04:05.88]"I didn't expect such support from a university

[04:10.72]somewhere very far away," Burtsev said.

[04:15.28]"Everything is very exciting, new people, new opportunities."

[04:21.64]Once in the United States,

[04:24.92]many Ukrainian students are conflicted,

[04:28.32]feeling both gratitude and guilt.

[04:31.96]They worry about family members at home.

[04:35.52]Many decide to explore educational paths

[04:39.76]that will help them rebuild their country.

[04:43.44]"Every single Ukrainian student who I've spoken to

[04:48.16]wants to go back," said Yale University professor Arne Westad,

[04:54.24]an expert in Russian history.

[04:57.16]"And they really want to go back

[05:00.24]as quickly as possible," he added.

[05:03.76]Most of the schools are offering similar help to Russian students.

[05:10.36]They recognize the students cannot influence government policy in Ukraine

[05:17.32]and are also experiencing the war's harmful effects.

[05:23.12]During the 2020-21 school year,

[05:27.08]there were 4,805 Russians and 1,739 Ukrainians

[05:36.12]at U.S. universities, an IIE report found.

[05:42.00]I'm Bryan Lynn.

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Words in This Story

application – n. an official and usually written request for something

tuition – n. money that is paid to a school for the right to study there

haven – n. a place that provides safety or refuge

compass – n. an instrument that shows which direction a person is going in

opportunity – n. a situation in which it is possible for a person to do something

gratitude – n. the feeling or quality of being grateful: feeling or showing thanks