Thank you all for this helpful information, but I’m not interested in going to Canada for college. Mostly Italy, France, and England. Preferably to an American Unviersity (in the location), so that all my classes will be in English. Suc as: John Cabout University, or American University of Paris.
The issue is that both of these are seen as jokes academically, attended mostly by rich kids that want a vacation more than an education.
Really? I’ve only ever heard good things. I’m open to going to school in England, but I definitely am not considering Canada.
Some students who are so eager to go overseas to college end up being the first ones to get homesick and return to the Us. everything looks good from a distance.
'good things ’ from whom?
I haven’t. No guide I know recommends those, articles in the local press tend to focus on the ‘rich kids’ thing, CDS data arent’available and most sources don’t have their stats which is a red flag… If you have lots of money and want to live in Paris/Rome for 4years then go back home to work in your parents 'business, why not. But don’t mistake those two colleges for good colleges with strong academics, tenure track faculty who do research, facilities, an alumni network…
There are very few reputable colleges in Europe that feature an American-style liberal arts envrionment (in English). Possibly only the Dutch university colleges and Bard Berlin (though maybe some programs that the Dutch university colleges have exchanges with).
For a European-style program taught in English, there are plenty in the UK and Ireland and even on the continent.
Trinity Dublin arts or ppe or Bess, nch in london (sorta), Bard Berlin.
Licence pluridisciplinaire in Bordeaux and sciences politiques Reims are the closest reputable ones I know in France, LAS in Germany (alongside Bard)?
There’s McDaniel in Prague, not sure how good it is though.
Sterling and other Scottish Unis are a little more like the four year American plan. If you love Europe, I say for for it. Living abroad for 8 months changed my life for,the better when I was a college student. The downside is that the Europeanan system is more rigid wnd you need to be committed to a major right off the bat. If yiu can do,that, I see NO reason why you should spend the cash in the USA.
Yep, Arts and BESS at Trinity College Dublin, PPE at a bunch of places, and double honours at UK unis (especially the Scottish ones) allows you to study more than one subject (and econ at Durham seems to be more of a business+econ degree). And the Scottish unis would allow a decent amount of electives if you do only one major. But changing outside the field(s) you entered in to is still much more difficult than in the US, and you’d typically delve much deeper in to your major if you do only one than in the US.
Jacobs University Bremen has been described as liberal arts, but I don’t know anything about it.
I’ve been overseas multiple times, too many to count. Plus, I have relatives overseas. I’ve been away from home every summer since I was 8 for two months; I’m rarely homesick. I’m the kind of person who, as long as they have confirmation that their family is safe and doing well, is fine.
University of Manchester? Edinburgh University?
What about them? They’re big (public) urban British research unis well-esteemed in the UK (Manchester for the sciences, at least, Edinburgh for more) where you have to commit to what you want to study from the get-go. One is English and typically 3 years. The other is Scottish and 4 years.
Edinburgh and Manchester are Russell group - the elite group of elite Universities. You apply for one “course” (program) and study that only, although you’re allowed a “joint” (two subjects).
Though, @MYOS1634, the Russell Group is a research grouping, so it’s more like the AAU in North America (which is the group of the top research U’s in North America if you look at research output).
For instance, notice that St. Andrews isn’t in the Russell Group, just as Dartmouth (and every single LAC) isn’t in the AAU.