Hi, I am going to graduate my senior year (in America) in June 2019. I have Australian citizenship and lived there most of my life, and am *considering moving back for university. The obvious pro to doing this is that it is SO much cheaper (because I am considered a domestic student), I’d be paying $6k for tuition.
The US universities I’m looking at include Middlebury, GW, American, William & Mary and Bowdoin. Liberal arts colleges are good for my degree, because I will be doing my undergraduate in international relations/russian studies minor.
I wish to work in the US when I’m older as an international lawyer, but have decided that I will be going to law school in Australia because of cost reasons, however I’m still torn on where to study for my undergraduate.
Can anyone help me out?
Also, perhaps people who have studied at ANU or U Melbourne can help me choose, both are well ranked internationally, and are ranked higher than universities in the US that I might attend…
to clarify, $6k for tuition per year, this is excluding accomodation, but would still work out to be cheaper
Are you a dual citizen, or just Australian? That will impact your ability to return her to work.
I am a South African and Australian citizen. I will apply for my US citizenship in 2020 when I am eligible
But if you are in college in Australia in 2020 that may not work out for you.
I do meet the requirements to obtain citizenship in 2020, regardless where I go for college. That won’t affect my college in US, as I am a permanent resident and receive the same benefits.
Hey!
I lived in Melbourne for four years (did high school there) but am a us citizen and I’m matriculating at Middlebury this fall. I considered both ANU and unimelb and my best friends go to both schools. I can also give some insight on Monash. For me deciding between if I wanted to stay in aus compared to going back to the US was mostly the experience I wanted out of it. At monash you can do undergrad law and medicine compared to us which is a plus. Melbourne is also great because your courses will last three years. This didn’t appeal to me because there were less non-major related subjects I could take - I wasn’t absolutely sure about my major and at Midd I can major and double minor plus a language or double major, the same was not possible at melb or anu. (Anu also has great undergrad law but I believe the course can be up to 5 years. My closest friends are at anu for ppe and the other for law.)
You have some great options but personally I think it comes down to what you want out of college and where you want to work after undergrad. If you want to work in the us then apply to us. If you want to work in aus then apply there. Not sure how international admissions works for aus uni because I got an atar. If you did IB it will be easier.
Please pm me for any other questions because I went through the same decision and it seems like our application situation is similar.
Hey!
I lived in Melbourne for four years (did high school there) but am a us citizen and I’m matriculating at Middlebury this fall. I considered both ANU and unimelb and my best friends go to both schools. I can also give some insight on Monash. For me deciding between if I wanted to stay in aus compared to going back to the US was mostly the experience I wanted out of it. At monash you can do undergrad law and medicine compared to us which is a plus. Melbourne is also great because your courses will last three years. This didn’t appeal to me because there were less non-major related subjects I could take - I wasn’t absolutely sure about my major and at Midd I can major and double minor plus a language or double major, the same was not possible at melb or anu. (Anu also has great undergrad law but I believe the course can be up to 5 years. My closest friends are at anu for ppe and the other for law.)
You have some great options but personally I think it comes down to what you want out of college and where you want to work after undergrad. If you want to work in the us then apply to us. If you want to work in aus then apply there. Not sure how international admissions works for aus uni because I got an atar. If you did IB it will be easier.
Please pm me for any other questions because I went through the same decision and it seems like our application situation is similar.
Sorry, not sure why that posted twice.
Be careful, permanent residents who don’t reside in the US lose their green card and any path to citizenship.
Obviously the big difference will be on teaching/learning (LAC= discussions in small groups / Australian universities= lectures in big halls).
If you will graduate high school in 2019 and be eligible for citizenship here in 2020, your best plan is to stay in the US until you have naturalized here. You could do that with a gap year, and then go to Australia to study.
Before you do anything that can risk your legal permanent residence and pathway to citizenship in the US, go speak with a good immigration lawyer.
You need a US law degree to practice law in the US. That can be in the form of a master’s degree, but be aware that you will need to attend some US law school for some time.