<p>Hey guys, so I'm a Chemical Engineering major at UT-Austin and I got accepted to a study abroad in Barcelona. Program is 1 month and I take 1 class (3 credit hours) that is applicable to my degree. Cost is $7000 for everything. Just wondering what you guys think and whether it's worth it for the cost?</p>
<p>Complete ripoff. Investigate whether they will accept credits from other programs you arrange yourself. If so, you should be able to do the same for less than half the cost, say $400 for a course (assuming it is a language course), 1000 for accomodation max, 1300 for airfare.</p>
<p>Studying aboard is ALWAYS worth it because of all the new things you learn and the new people you meet! Depending on your school will have an affect on the study aboard program. For example at Marist College studying aboard is highly encouraged so the classes you take in a different country will 99.9% of the time be useful classes that you can use towards your major or core. Here at Marist the school also makes it very easy to apply so it is not stressful but fun and exciting!</p>
<p>That is a LOT of money for one month. I have a child spending 9 months in another country for only slightly more than that, altogether. </p>
<p>@GoddessofWisdom “Studying aboard is ALWAYS worth it because of all the new things you learn and the new people you meet!”</p>
<p>What a load of nonsense. What if it cost $1m?</p>
<p>Does this $7,000 include airfare, food, the credits, any transportation that could happen along the way, books and more?</p>
<p>@ChuoShinkansen </p>
<p>Please keep your replies grounded in reality. When someone says something like “XYZ is worth it” it is assumed that the cost involved is somewhere in the range of normal, which is some range based on most US universities to study in various countries. While this might be a fairly wide range based on the college, the particular study abroad program, the foreign country being visited, and the particular spending habits of the participant, it obviously isn’t going to be $1M. Now if you want to argue that studying abroad at a cost in the upper end of that range, whatever that is, may not be worth it that is fine. But don’t accuse others of nonsense when you spit out numbers like $1M. Research what an upper cost might be, and then argue from that basis if you still think you are right.</p>
<p>That seems too expensive. My daughter spent almost five months studying in Spain for less than $10,000, including airfare, hotels in Boston and Barcelona at the beginning of the trip, room, board, etc. </p>
There are some very affordable visting student programs at one (or more, I forget) of the Spanish universities in Barcelona.
Here, I found a link for the program I am thinking of
According to the page, a 4-credit course is 360 euros.
A room in a student apartment would probably run around 260 - 350 euros per month.
Your plane ticket won’t cost $6000. And you’d stll have plenty of money left for food.
