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APEC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Asian-Pacific Economic Community |
| CDC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Centers for Disease Control |
| CIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Council for International Exchange of Scholars |
| DAAD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Acronym for German letters of the German Academic Exchange Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) |
| DEA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Drug Enforcement Administration |
| ETS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Educational Testing Service |
| EU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | European Union |
| Fulbright-Hays 102(b)(6) . . . | A specific section of U.S. legislation (named for its authors in the Senate and House of Representatives) authorizing the Department of Education to fund four modern foreign languages and area studies programs. |
| IIE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Institute of International Education |
| IMET . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . | International Military Education and Training Program |
| INS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Immigration & Naturalization Service |
| LASPAU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Academic and Professional Programs for the Americas |
| NAFTA . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . | North American Free Trade Agreement |
| NIS/CEE . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . | New Independent States/Central & Eastern Europe |
| NSEP . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . | National Security Education Program |
| OECD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development |
| USAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | United States Agency for International Development |
| USDA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | United States Department of Agriculture |
| USED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | United States Department of Education |
| USIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | United States Information Agency |
| USIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | United States Information Service (overseas offices of USIA) |