A new partnership of 11 college and university campuses wants to increase international student enrollment and retention by 10 percent in the next five years.

GlobalPittsburgh announced Wednesday it has formed a consortium called the GlobalPittsburgh Education Partnership.

The campuses that have signed on so far are Carlow University, Chatham University, Community College of Allegheny County, Duquesne University, La Roche College, three Penn State campuses (Beaver, Greater Allegheny and New Kensington), Robert Morris University, Washington & Jefferson College and West Virginia University.

Some participants in the partnership have met with ambassadors from Vietnam, the Republic of Georgia and Nigeria.

About 7,000 international students attend college in the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, most of whom go to the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University.

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