Stronger
together

USUFU opens publicly in September 2026. We are an independent educational initiative with no institutional affiliation, and we are not going to list logos we have not earned — so this page describes the shape of a partnership rather than the results of one.

What we can offer a partner is narrow but real: a bilingual audience of Ukrainian students and parents who are actively planning a U.S. education, and a site that names its sources and refuses to overstate. What we ask in return is something concrete for those families — not sponsorship, and not a logo exchange.

What is actually useful

From a university: an application fee waiver for Ukrainian applicants, a session with an admissions or financial-aid officer that we can record and publish, or a named contact who will confirm what your published policy means for an international applicant. From a school or foundation: test-prep access, document or credential-evaluation support, or funding for the translation work. From a company: hosting, translation services, or a scholarship you actually administer yourselves. What is not useful is a banner.

Schools, districts, and the people already doing the work

Not every useful partner is a university. Some of the most useful ones sit much closer to the family than an admissions office ever does: a high school with Ukrainian students in its corridors, a district office deciding how to place a sixteen-year-old who arrived in March with a transcript nobody can read, a Saturday school, a parish, a resettlement or community organisation that already holds those families' trust. If that is you, we would like to hear from you before we hear from anyone else. We will not charge you, we do not need exclusivity, and we are happy for our name to stay off it entirely if that makes it easier for you to use.

The specific case we would like to name, because people keep asking for it in different words: if your organisation serves Ukrainians and wants a Ukrainian-speaking education arm without having to build one, use ours. Link our guides from your own pages, hand out the materials, put one of us on a panel or a parents' evening, send your enquiries our way when they turn into questions about American applications — or send us the question your families keep asking and we will write the answer in both languages, for both of us. A district can do the same thing: point the counselling office at the guides, and tell us what your enrolment rules actually say so we can stop guessing on behalf of the next family that lands in your catchment.

A partner on every subject we cover

The site covers choosing schools, applications and essays, testing, money and financial aid, visas and documents, and the first year on campus. On every one of those subjects somebody knows more than we do, and that is a gap a partner closes better than another month of our own reading. An admissions officer who will confirm what their published policy actually means for an international applicant; a credential evaluator on what a Ukrainian transcript needs; an immigration attorney on the paperwork; a financial aid director on what “meets full need” covers for a student who is not a citizen; a current international student on the parts nobody writes down. The commitment is small and it is real: look at what we publish on your subject once a year and tell us where we are wrong. We date and source every correction on the page, and we would rather be corrected in public than be trusted by accident.

How it works, and what we will not do

Write to us with what your institution can offer and who at your end owns it; we will reply with where it fits on the site and what we would publish about it. Anything factual you give us is dated and sourced on the page like everything else, and we will re-check it with you before each academic year. We do not sell placement, we do not run advertising, and we will not describe a school as recommended by USUFU — our pages exist to help a student judge for themselves, and that only works if nothing on them has been bought.