HE increased role of the United States in the conduct of international affairs leaves few of our citizens untouched. The new position of our nation offers more challenges, more responsibilities and more opportunities to some, however, than to others. To the staff members of the American colleges and universities, and particularly to the workers engaged in the social sciences, the challenges loom large, indeed. But as we, as social scientists, work at our profession, we do so with a frustration brought on by the chaotic state of world affairs and the fact that our social organization and development lags scores of years behind our scientific and technological advances. In spite of these somewhat unsettling vexations-or perhaps, more accurately, in response to them-the American colleges and universities have committed themselves and have often provided the leadership in improving international relations with countries throughout the world, in marshalling human and technical resources to bear on socioeconomic problems in less developed nations, and in stimulating educational programs designed to upgrade man's relationship with man. This is being done in part through educating an increasing number of foreign students in our colleges and universities. I propose to spend a few minutes trying to set in perspective some of the considerations that concern us most in the management of a graduate program for foreign students in the area of agricultural economics. With the added number of students who come for training each year under their own auspices and under the auspices of a multiplicity of agencies, the problems have become further complexing and more intricate. To facilitate the discussion I further propose to group the problems, somewhat arbitrarily, to include (1) the selection of foreign students; (2) the orientation of foreign students to the American scene; (3) the nature of the graduate program; (4) special treatment of foreign students; and (5) the follow-up on the foreign students upon whom graduate degrees have been conferred.