Curious About International Institutions

donatu
Mon, 19 Nov 2012 05:38:01 +0000

It’s interesting you bring this up kcj2196, as I was recently a participant in an educational forum attended by international university students from China, India, Japan, Korea and Russia going overseas. There was a portion of the conference that effectively ranked the overseas countries with the most appealing options.

The #1 preferred country to my surprise, was Germany, and the next in the Top Five were Switzerland, France, Sweden and the Netherlands. The general feature especially for Germany is that you will pay more if you’re a non-citizen, but it’s still very much manageable, and if you agree to work in the country after you graduate, most of these countries have structured repayment systems that will help you to work it off reasonably quickly so long as you’re a productive and law-abiding citizen.

I think this may be a much better alternative than trying to get residency status, which in practice is incredibly difficult to pull off, or would otherwise require years as people are pointing out. You’ll of course have to learn German which is becoming a kind of common academic language in many of the best countries, but it’s well worth it if you want to attend internationally.