<p>Hello all,</p>
<p>Is it possible for American students to go to college in Europe? I'm not talking about an exchange program or something, but actually getting your entire degree abroad. I think it might be difficult as an American HS diploma isn't actually worth as much as most European ones... can anyone provide some insight?</p>
<p>check out the international university at bremen.</p>
<p>you will have a difficult time getting into a prestigious UK university unless you have done the IB or a significant number of APs.</p>
<p>It sounds as if you are asking about European colleges, but Franklin College in Switzerland is an American college in Europe. It's very small, located in southern Switzerland near Italy. Each semester they have 2 weeks of required travel, if that is of interest to you.</p>
<p>I think you need IB for all the really good ones, but like American University of Paris or Rome or Cairo or even Beirut lol you can go to with decent grades.
AU Cairo is very good in IR and Arabic and i wanted to visit it but my mom almost got a heart attack.</p>
<p>Are you asking about American universities in Europe (which is what all the above posts are about) or about real European universities?</p>
<p>I don't know about other European universities, but to gain admission into any German university you need a high school diploma and
- two years of college
- or 4 AP exams in certain subjects (depending on your major)
- or 1300/1600 on the SAT </p>
<p>Hope that helps.</p>
<p>barium,, how does a US HS degree compare to Abitur (G) or vwo here in holland ?</p>
<p>Abitur gives you a specific score at the end which signifies exactly how well you did overall in high school (similar to IB). this is what is used for university admissions. america doesn't have this.</p>
<p>I am not familiar with the vwo.</p>
<p>The Abitur usually takes 13 years to complete.
In my opinion, German students after 11th grade are at about the same level as the average American high school graduate. The last two years pretty much line up with the IB curriculum (or APs with the exception of sciences which are a little bit more advanced). </p>
<p>How does the vwo work?</p>
<p>uman, what major are you looking at?</p>
<p>vwo is considered equal to abitur but it is a 6 year process. You usally finish when you are 18, it's gymnasium(maybe rings a bell?) without latin or greek.
The last year of vwo is also considered the first year of university or something like that.</p>
<p>I was actually considering going to a real European university, not an American university in Europe. I was also considering going to Japan. This is all assuming that I can get up to speed on the language in time, which my prior experience with French leads me to believe that I can.</p>
<p>As I've said before I'm not going to get an IB diploma, but four AP credits may be possible.</p>
<p>I think the IB diploma makes you eligible for admission at about every university in the whole world.</p>
<p>I know, but I'm not doing the IB diploma (I could, but it'd take me an extra year to graduate as I decided to spend my junior year in France)</p>
<p>If I spoke French or Japanese, I would visit some universities' websites and look up their admission requirements for American students for you, but I am afraid you will have to do that yourself.</p>
<p>I know several kids who have applied to Univ of Edinburgh, St Andrews, and universities in Ireland. It is not that unusual and they accept students with US high school diplomas (not IB's).</p>
<p>understand that financial aid is not available to US students at european universities -- so you would be a full freight student</p>
<p>You don't need an IB for prestigious European schools; I know several people who have been accepted to Oxford w/o. Check sites of schools you're interested in for specific requirements</p>
<p>hsmomstef, in many European countries there are no tuition fees at all, or they are very low (e.g. $500 per year). The big exception are British universities.</p>
<p>Franklin College Switzerland....who else is considering this college?</p>
<p>I'm not considering Franklin now, but I was at one point. You might want to look at some blogs of people who attend the school to see what it's like for them: <a href="http://www.livejournal.com/schools/?ctc=CH&sc=Ticino&cc=Lugano&sid=13360%5B/url%5D">http://www.livejournal.com/schools/?ctc=CH&sc=Ticino&cc=Lugano&sid=13360</a></p>
<p>It sounds to me like a very exciting place to go to school, but the academic quality isn't the best and it could get expensive.</p>