<p>Any one have any experiences? I am thinking about it cause school here is so @#%& expensive.
Are foreign schools hard to get into for foreign students or are they preferred?</p>
<p>What type of school are you looking at? Humanities? Science? MBA?
In most European countries, medecine and law start at undergrad level, so you would be uneligible. The UK gives out a lot of fellowships, but getting in competitive fields is hard. As for other countries, the classes are not taught in English, so you have to prove that your language level is up to par; plus, you’d better check that their diplomas are valid in the States.</p>
<p>A lot of non-English speaking countries teach their graduate (!) degrees in English, and European Master’s degrees seem to be universally “valid” in the US.</p>
<p>I’d be more concerned about the “usefulness” of a European degree. Just because a degree is formally valid, does not mean that it will help you on the American job market. I’ve met quite a lot of Americans who felt shut out of the domestic job market after a few years in Europe. Why are you hoping to get a graduate degree, and what are you hoping to do with it?</p>
<p>Some European degrees are obviously cheaper than others. Oxford and Cambridge are names known in the US, but also as expensive as a private American university for foreigners. German universities are practically free, but they lack name recognition in the US.</p>
<p>I’m looking at France’s grandes ecoles for a masters in engineering (probably ME or EE). </p>
<p>Why would American employers “shut out” people with foreign graduate degrees? I looked at some of the curriculum in French schools and most of them look just as good or more intense than the ones here.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t recruiters have done some research on these schools?</p>
<p>L’Ecole Polytechnique, the most prestigious engineering school in France does indeed have an international master taught in English. Deadline for on-line admissions process on feb 15th. Very competitive.</p>
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Look at it from the recruiter’s point of view: why do extensive research on foreign universities for the occasional applicant from there, when it’s so much easier to hire one of the many graduates of American universities that you are already familiar with? It’s also much easier to interview a candidate who’s physically in the US, and it’s easier to follow up on American references than foreign references.</p>
<p>Maybe big engineering companies are more flexible in that regard, but the labor market as a whole does not seem to appreciate applications from abroad. You could also wait to apply to jobs until you are back in the US but at that point you’d be unemployed: “damaged goods” in the eyes of many recruiters.</p>