<p>Thank you for posting this!</p>
<p>I’m a college junior and spent the fall semester in Beijing and the following spring Shanghai. Together, the trip set me back $38,000. (Even though it was entirely tax deductible for my mother.)
I wanted to study abroad again - but for financial reasons, leery of it since I still need the funds up front.
Finally, there’s a program I can actually afford.</p>
<p>As for those saying there’s no reason to study abroad - I felt I grew the most being in China (and also became fluent in Mandarin) in that one year than I had ever before. I also was forced to see the amount of freedom I took for granted. For example, in China, most user-interactive websites (Xanga, Wikipedia, etc.) are blocked.</p>