Hi All,
D2 found this school searching online and she likes the idea of spending all her college years abroad.
http://www.absparis.org/en/admissions-2/1st-year-admissions/
She is not completely decided on a major but is leaning towards business so this interests her. She has lived abroad, in England, as a younger child and is itching to go abroad again.
I have never heard of this school. It is NOT American University in Paris, which is option that would be too expensive for us without a significant scholarship.
I don’t want her to go to a University of Phoenix-type school, in that I want her to attend a school that is appropriately accredited and has reasonable graduate outcomes.
Please let me know what this collective body of knowledge knows. I’d be so grateful!
BTW, she has applied to , and been accepted to other school in and out of our home state of Colorado, but is looking for other options.
I don’t know the school specifically, but I would bet it’s a mediocre setup like many of these kinds of things in Paris. Why go to an American University in another country? It would be isolated, you would have less incentive to learn the language, and be staffed by academics who can’t get jobs in better places.
Look into European universities, many of them do not charge any tuition. You are already too late to do it for 2015 in most cases. Another option is a year abroad.
My d, who is Euro-American, is in a British University and loves it. Because we are residents, it will cost about 1/4 what a selective school would in the US. I went to Sciences Po (IEP) in Paris, which now has business studies; in 1980, it charged no tuition, though that has changed.
Thank you for your insight. I suspected as much.
As Alcibiade said, it’s not a good school.
If your daughter is interested in studying abroad in France (for a relatively low cost but not “free”) Sciences Po Reims is the way to go. They’re very highly considered in Europe, have a bilingual student body, and still accept applications.
http://college.sciences-po.fr/sitereims/