<p>How about you do your own research instead of asking us to do the research for you?</p>
<p>What do you wanna study?</p>
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<p>Well, although I agree with b@r!um, there is a consensus that’s probably difficult and time consuming to find out if you’re not European. </p>
<p>Unfortunately in civil engineering there aren’t any really good universities that offer programs in English outside of the UK. The literature will be in English, but lectures and everything else will be in the local language.</p>
<p>So you’ll have to do some research with google.</p>
<p>The best technical university in Europe (excluding the UK) is ETH Zürich. They probably have graduate programs that are taught in English.</p>
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BenBenn, I know that you are trying to be helpful. But may I ask what qualifications you have to make this statement? How sure are you that it is correct? </p>
<p>You may have just discouraged a prospective college from researching his options. That would be very unfortunate in case there is a program that you were just not aware of.</p>
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<p>I’m just trying to spare the guy some time. There aren’t that many technical universities that are famous for high standards in Europe. Here are the European tech schools that were included in the THE ranking’s top 50 schools:</p>
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TU Delft
Ecole Polytechnique
Ecole Polytechnique F</p>
<p>You are implying (intentionally or not) that these are the only universities worth studying at. European universities are on the whole much more homogeneous than American universities. There is no reason not to consider a university just because it is not ranked among the top 10 technical universities in Europe.</p>
<p>For example, the difference between the “best” and the “worst” German universities are negligible for undergraduate students. German universities are about equally selective and they all offer very similar curricula because everything is standardized in good old Germany. I graduated from high school in Germany. When my classmates chose which university to attend, their primary criterion was which university offered the specializations within their major that sounded the most interesting. Among those, location was used to break ties. Nobody took out a list of university rankings (based on research activity!) and chose the highest ranked university. That would be just silly.</p>
<p>ETH Zurich teaches in German. It is not difficult at all to find out what language a university teaches in!</p>
<p>what about vienna. got great humanities department. then… heidelberg??</p>
<p>guys are right. if you wanna study in europe in 95% cases you should know their local language on at least B2 level. you cans tudy only economics and business in english at most eu universities.</p>
<p>and if i migt add, eu universities are way better than American in 98% cases</p>
<p>b@r!um - You are interpreting my statement to be expressing such an intention. As a northern neighbour of Germany (Swede) I know very well that what you’re saying about German universities is true. If it’s possible to find a program in your desired specialization that’s in English there, I’d certainly say go for it. </p>
<p>The question was “best universities in Europe” and there was a condition, the education had to be in English, hence my reply.</p>
<p>It is difficult for an American who’s considering to come to Europe to study though, because you should experience the school as much as possible for yourself before you register. Sure, maybe you’ll save a lot of money, but at the end of the day, unless your main objective was to live in a certain country, you could just as well have stayed and studied at some state university (which are cheap too right?).</p>
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Really cheap. Only $8,000 - $18,000 a year. What a bargain ;)</p>
<p>There are other reasons to study abroad besides settling down in that country. Maybe a student wants to be adventurous. Maybe a student does not like the “general education” approach at American universities and would rather spend 3 years studying a subject in depth. Maybe this is seen as an opportunity to gain fluency in a foreign language without interrupting one’s college education.</p>
<p>I know on my part, I had no intention of settling down in the States when I started applying to colleges in the US.</p>
<p>Where did you come up with this price from? I know that in many EU countries such as Austria, France, Spain, etc… universities are almost free - like at max. 1000€ per semester but most of them are actually less than 500. In comparison to the States and Canada, this IS cheap.</p>
<p>luluzg, who are you referring to?</p>
<p>My price range indicates the in-state tuition rates of American state universities. BenBenn was talking about American students studying abroad in Europe, and said that they could get a cheap education at a state university w/o going abroad.</p>
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<p>Wow, it’s really that expensive?! I haven’t had the time to go through all the information here yet. I thought I read on a Swedish board that it didn’t cost very much at the state universities. </p>
<p>Anyway, I agree totally with what you are saying. Another problem is the admission requirements. In most European countries admission requirements are not normally applied.</p>
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<p>That we don’t normally have any requirements on grades. We don’t have to have good grades, as long as we’re qualified for tertiary studies - through a completed secondary school education.</p>
<p>I was referring to you barlum.
BenBenn, in Sweden it probably doesn’t cost too much but it’s a state university in Swedish and many students stay in their city for college. But if you are a foreign without knowledge of Swedish, it’s gonna be more expensive, much more. Same goes for other EU countries</p>
<p>I will only speak for Switzerland, but as far as I know there are no pure English program on an undergraduate level. See </p>
<p>[Study</a> in Switzerland](<a href=“Home - swissuniversities”>Home - swissuniversities)</p>
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<p>[Study</a> Programmes in English](<a href=“Home - swissuniversities”>Home - swissuniversities)
for a complete list of English programs in Switzerland, and </p>
<p>[url=<a href=“Home - swissuniversities”>Home - swissuniversities]USA[/url</a>]</p>
<p>for Admission requirements for US students. At most places you will need to pass 5 AP courses, (calculus, two languages, one science and one social sciences), with the exception of ETH/EPFL, where you’ll have to pass an exam.</p>
<p>Fees are typically 1300-1500 SFr/$ per year,</p>
<p>luluzg - Right, I posted a couple of links about that earlier. It will probably cost more than in most other EU countries; somewhere around 8000 € per year. I can assure you that you will not get your money’s worth unless you study at KI or SSE, which are the internationally renowned schools, otherwise it’s certainly as good or even better in most other countries. </p>
<p>The main benefit I would point to regarding KI and SSE is that it will be easy to get a job after graduation, and that the pay will probably be high enough.</p>