Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Overseas College For Less


NY Times:
With higher education fast becoming a global commodity, universities worldwide — many of them in Canada and England — are competing for the same pool of affluent, well-qualified students, and more American students are heading overseas not just for a semester abroad, but for their full degree program.
...This fall, at the National Association for College Admissions Counseling conference in Seattle, where admissions officers from American universities mingle with the counselors who help shape high school students’ college choices, there were representatives from the University of Waikato in New Zealand, Seoul National University in South Korea, Jacobs University Bremen in Germany, the University of Limerick in Ireland, as well as dozens more from Canada and Britain.

St. Andrews of Scotland , Prince Williams' alma mater, charges £11,350 or $16,955 for a US student. Cheap for an experience similar to a top private US university, plus international experience.

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