Photo credits

The campuses, lecture rooms and libraries pictured on The Open Quad are all public-domain or CC0 images from Wikimedia Commons. Many were taken by US federal agencies, including USAID missions and the Department of Energy, and are therefore public domain in the United States. Our only changes were a 3:2 crop, a resize and conversion to WebP.

These pictures illustrate higher education in general. The students, staff and campuses shown have no connection with The Open Quad and endorse nothing in it. Shots from past government-funded partnership events serve purely as historical illustration; the magazine has no tie to the agencies or programmes that organised them.

Photos by page

• Home page (top): University students in white lab coats leaning over a bench to examine a sample together. Photo: USAID Indonesia, USAID Indonesia Higher Education Program.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), Public domain (US government work).
• Agricultural University Partnerships: From Land-Grant Colleges Abroad to Innovation Labs: Orange-fleshed sweet potatoes, biscuits and packaged snacks made from them laid out on a table. Photo: USAID in Africa, Orange-Fleshed Sweet Potato Value Chain (23463701639).jpg (Wikimedia Commons), Public domain (US government work).
• Brain Drain or Brain Circulation? What Happens When Graduates Leave: Students and passers-by crossing a footbridge over a canal on a city university campus. Photo: Fons Heijnsbroek, A photo of students walking over the bridge on the campus Roeterseiland, Amsterdam; high resolution image by FotoDutch in June 2013.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), CC0.
• How to Choose a University Abroad: Accreditation, Rankings and the Questions That Matter: Students with backpacks walking along a tree-lined path towards a university campus gate. Photo: Tokyo538, Students walking towards Komaba Campus, University of Tokyo.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), CC0.
• The Real Cost of Studying Abroad: Tuition, Living Costs and Proof of Funds by Country: Two students with backpacks walking along a path beside a canal and a fence on a city university campus. Photo: Fons Heijnsbroek, A photo of two students, walking on the university campus Roeterseiland, Amsterdam; high resolution image by FotoDutch in June 2013.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), CC0.
• Credential Evaluation Explained: Getting Foreign Degrees Recognised in the US, Canada, UK and Europe: Students gathered around a table writing on papers and charts during a group exercise. Photo: USAID Vietnam, Vietnamese university students join the Business Plan Mashup exercise (8199302670).jpg (Wikimedia Commons), Public domain (US government work).
• English Language Tests for University Admission: TOEFL, IELTS, PTE and Duolingo Compared: A room of university students seated on chairs, some reading handouts, during a talk. Photo: USAID Vietnam, Students join the ‘USAID and Higher Education in Vietnam’ talk (8201273863).jpg (Wikimedia Commons), Public domain (US government work).
• How to Evaluate a University Partnership: Criteria, Indicators and Common Traps: Four panellists seated at a conference table with microphones answering questions. Photo: USAID Indonesia, Panelists at the University Partnership Forum (6519940717).jpg (Wikimedia Commons), Public domain (US government work).
• Higher Education in Africa: Access, Growth and the Partnerships Shaping It: Students walking across a paved plaza through the entrance of a Nigerian university campus. Photo: Eminence190, Students walking through the Motion Ground entrance at Obafemi Awolowo University.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), CC0.
• A Short History of US Development Aid to Higher Education, 1949–2025: A black-and-white photograph of a student reading at a long table in a college library, with shelves of books behind. Photo: Gordon Parks, Daytona Beach, Florida. Bethune-Cookman College. Students in the library reading room LCCN2017843202.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), Public domain.
• Quality Assurance in Higher Education: How Universities Are Accredited Around the World: A black-and-white view from above of students studying at tables in a modern university library reading room. Photo: UCLA Library University Archives, Walter H. Rubsamen Music Library reading room.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), CC0.
• Research Collaboration Across Borders: Fair Partnerships Between Universities: A senior researcher and a graduate student look at a computer screen beside a large laboratory instrument. Photo: U.S. Department of Energy from United States, U.S. Department of Energy - Science - 463 022 001 (9786811676).jpg (Wikimedia Commons), Public domain (US government work).
• Scholarships for International Students: The Major Programmes and How to Apply: University students sitting in a circle on chairs, listening to a young woman speaking with a microphone. Photo: USAID Vietnam, Students join the ‘USAID and Higher Education in Vietnam’ talk (8201280293).jpg (Wikimedia Commons), Public domain (US government work).
• Moving Abroad to Study: Finding Housing Near Your New Campus: A large red-brick university residence hall with gables and many windows, on a lawn, in an old coloured postcard. Photo: Unknown author, Oxley Hall at The Ohio State University - DPLA - e6dbebe7b435e6228ff6bebc21300e03.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), Public domain.
• International Student Numbers: Who Studies Where, and How the Picture Is Changing: A vintage split-flap departures board in a curved white airport terminal. Photo: w_lemay, Departures Board, TWA Flight Center, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Jamaica, Queens, New York City, NY - 48581306122.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), CC0.
• US Student Visas Explained: F-1, J-1 and M-1, Step by Step: Close-up of a blue immigration entry stamp with handwritten dates on a passport page. Photo: Slleong, Cochin passport stamp evisa arrival 1.jpg (Wikimedia Commons), CC0.
• University Partnerships for Development: What Decades of Cross-Border Collaboration Built: Two university representatives shaking hands at the signing of a partnership agreement. Photo: USAID Indonesia, Partnership with the School of Public Health, University of Indonesia (17397685040).jpg (Wikimedia Commons), Public domain (US government work).
• Women in Higher Education: Access, Science and Leadership in Developing Countries: Young women students in headscarves and helmets with bicycles, one speaking to a reporter holding a microphone. Photo: USAID Pakistan, USAID Presents 200 Bicycles to University of Agriculture under Gender Equity Program (29452531142).jpg (Wikimedia Commons), Public domain (US government work).
• Working While Studying Abroad: Student Work Rules in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany and France: A young man speaking into a microphone in front of flip charts covered in handwritten notes, with students listening. Photo: USAID Vietnam, Vietnamese university students join the Business Plan Mashup exercise (8198197611).jpg (Wikimedia Commons), Public domain (US government work).

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