Should You Move Abroad?
The most significant things I’ve learned through this experience are more around how I want to approach life than anything else.
The most significant things I’ve learned through this experience are more around how I want to approach life than anything else.
My name is Taylor Petersen, I am from Washington State and a first-year student at Hogeschool Utrecht University of Applied Sciences (HU). I am attending school here in Utrecht, Netherlands and today I am going to talk about my program, Creative Business.
I will delve into its offered subjects/directions, its unique student-chosen curriculum, and lastly, how its academic year is laid out.
Thanksgiving can be a bit hard for first year students in Europe. It’s just like any other day with classes and student sometimes are a bit homesick by this time. So what are their options?
Other than the already sky-high and still increasing tuition, another concern I had about sending my own kids to universities in the US was the high-stress admissions process.
Are you considering a career in health sciences? Have you thought about the option to study medicine in Europe? Europe offers many programs that combine a bachelor’s degree with an advanced degree in areas like medicine, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and pharmacy.
“After being exposed to BTS through a family friend, I began growing curious of what other opportunities could be out there for me.”
The tremendous study abroad opportunities you’ll find while getting your full degree in Europe are one reason we encourage international students looking at degrees abroad not to have tunnel vision on one single European destination for their main program. Yep, you can study abroad while already studying abroad!
Alright, if you’ve stumbled here, then you’re at least curious about getting your English-taught college degree in Europe – or you may be further along than that, and ready to start the planning process.
Study abroad programs, like many aspects of the US college experience, tend to be unnecessarily expensive when compared with direct enrollment in a European school.
Today I have an update on Jared, the student from Chapel Hill we worked with who is now attending KU Leuven in Brussels, Belgium.
In Europe, the admissions requirements are defined. The goal of is to meet their requirements, not to be better than all the other applicants in a number of different categories.
I recently started looking at the cost of college in Europe and found massive savings are possible.
Unlike the US university system, which views studying abroad as an opportunity to generate high fees from unwitting students, the European study abroad is promoted by the EU who puts money INTO encouraging students to study in outside their home country.
If you are already exploring the option of college in Europe, you likely have what sociologist Mark Granovetter refers to as a “low threshold”.
I’ve learned about some amazing programs for international students to study in Hungary, discovered the Hungarian flatbreads called langos, and finally understood the appeal of Budapest!
When I started to document the colleges in Europe with English-taught degree programs, I realized that there were many terms and concepts I needed to understand before I could delve in too deeply.
Because our programs are two of the most popular English programs at Leiden University and on the surface level may seem similar, we want to break down some of the ways they are distinct.
One thing that sets bachelor’s programs in Europe apart from those in the US is that most programs in Europe have at least one semester set aside for an internship.
“I am going to talk about my experience with leaving friends behind when I moved from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Maastricht in the Netherlands.”
I often get questions from parents about whether it is safe to send their kids to college in Europe. Granted, this question usually comes from parents who probably won’t send their kids overseas anyway, but safety is certainly something that is on most of our minds these days.
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