IEC membership pools resources, providing a cost-effective means of staying on top of changing policies and conditions that affect study abroad. It also provides a way for member institutions to coordinate approaches to issues and communicate to the U.S. government with consistent messages, resulting in advancement of their interests. IEC membership is a small investment towards producing positive change that no one member institution could do or could afford to do on its own.

Annual dues are based on total annual U.S. Direct Loan volume.