By Rafael Rodríguez This blog post was written for the course "Current Issues in Global and EU Affairs", which took place from February 12-April 30, 2018. It is a well-known fact that defense and security remain some of the main scopes of the transatlantic relations between the European Union (EU) and the United States (US). Yet, there are many different areas that cover other fundamentals of these relations, such as education. Education, and more specifically, the Internationalization of Higher Education, has had a tremendous growth in terms of the number of educational institutions tailoring efforts to attract the international market of students. Quacquarelli Symonds (QS), best known for publishing the QS World University Rankings, state in their website that international student enrollment has grown exponentially to reach five million between 1990 and 2014; by 2025, this number is expected to reach 8 million globally (West, 2018). The EU’s marketing efforts to pr...