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[nitewulf]

prefferably engineering students. i am planning to get back into academia, and get my masters degree. i completed my bachellors last june from an american university. while i applied to various schools in the US, i'm also thinking of applying abroad...france, germany, sweden, england, perhaps moscow.
did anyone ever do this? is it feasible? how were your experiences?

 

[7imz]

i applied but didn't go... does that count?

edit: well, a lot of my friends are there and they're all happy...

 

[nitewulf]

sure, did ya get in?
why didnt you go?

 

[7imz]

i actually applied to engineering and got accepted at 4 universities (UK)... I ended up going to Canada

 

[Pedigree Chum]

i actually applied to engineering and got accepted at 4 universities (UK)... I ended up going to Canada

Smart man, how are you likeing Canada BTW?

 

[7imz]

so far so good

 

[android]

With education paid by the government in some of these countries does a foreigner have to pay for the go to school there?

 

[7imz]

With education paid by the government in some of these countries does a foreigner have to pay for the go to school there?

they f*ing milk us dry

 

[Dead]

Well I applied and was accepted at a University in Lille (Université des Sciences et Technologies), France despite not having taken the BAC. Kinda miraculous, but ehh things didnt go as planned and I came back to the States.

I still dont know if id rather have stayed there even though I much prefer living there than in Houston (even though this is where I was born)

 

[Kola]

I've met a lot of enginnering students from the US and Hongkong who went to Germany, as it is a good place for studying engineering, especially with all those (German) companies in which you can make internships and the like. Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Airbus, BMW, Audi, Krauss-Maffei-Wegmann, Volkswagen, Siemens, Opel, Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft (submarine), Atlas Elektronik and so on...

The educational system is still free of charge, although changes seem to be on the way. But I guess that Master Degrees without exchange programs cost money anyway. Just apply for it, for example Aachen might be a good try. The more universities you apply for the more options you will eventually have.

 

[Acrylamid]

I've met a lot of enginnering students from the US and Hongkong who went to Germany, as it is a good place for studying engineering, especially with all those (German) companies in which you can make internships and the like. Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Airbus, BMW, Audi, Krauss-Maffei-Wegmann, Volkswagen, Siemens, Opel, Howaldtswerke Deutsche Werft (submarine), Atlas Elektronik and so on...

The educational system is still free of charge, although changes seem to be on the way. But I guess that Master Degrees without exchange programs cost money anyway. Just apply for it, for example Aachen might be a good try. The more universities you apply for the more options you will eventually have.

There was a court decision a few weeks ago that abolished a ban on tuition fees - the result is, that every federal state now can decide on its own if it wants to introduce tuition fees.

 

[Saturnman]

With education paid by the government in some of these countries does a foreigner have to pay for the go to school there?

It depends. In Canada, foreigners have to pay, but the price of higher education is still cheaper than in the States. That's why many American students come here.

Some European countries, especially Scandinavian ones, still have fully subsidized education and it is virtually free, even for foreigners. But as I understand it, they are very current plans to change that so you'd better get in before the party is over...

 

[Kola]

There was a court decision a few weeks ago that abolished a ban on tuition fees - the result is, that every federal state now can decide on its own if it wants to introduce tuition fees.

I know, after all I used to be a German law student. =)

It's just that firstly the tuition fees will not be implemented right after the decision, secondly some social standards have to be fulfilled and lastly possible tuition fees will never be near as high as they are in the US for example. 500-1000€ per semester I guess.