OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Mexican Consul Guadalupe Sánchez Salazar says the outlook for more student exchanges in Nebraska is bright following the success of a program that brought eight students from Mexico to study English in Omaha this summer.

The students spent most of their July in the intensive English program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha.

They came to the U.S. as part of an initiative called Proyecta 100,000 that was started by the Mexican government. It aims to have 100,000 Mexican students studying in the U.S. by 2018.

Salazar says she’s in discussions with several other Nebraska colleges to bring Mexican students there. She adds several public universities in Iowa also are interested in hosting Mexican students.