Traveling Abroad To Study: Who Can And Who Should

 Some  Students want to travel and study abroad for improved career opportunities and to have an understanding of the way the world works. The knowledge, experience, and skills obtained while studying abroad are well-respected the world over.

 Who Can Travel Abroad To Study  

Everyone can travel abroad to study. Even if you want to start your Primary and Secondary education, you can travel abroad for that. Traveling abroad to study at this level will require either traveling with your family or having a family abroad that will take care of you because of the age implications. 

It is open to those that just finished Secondary School or High School as the name implies in your home country. Also, those that have obtained their Bsc, HND, Master that want to do further study abroad like Masters, Doctorate degrees etc. 

Grouping Of Students

This grouping consists of:

1. Undergraduates
2. Postgraduates 

 

Undergraduates

These are a group of students that have not completed any programme in their home country University but want to study abroad. They are undergraduates because they have not yet acquired a minimum of a four-year programme in any institute of higher learning. It means no matter what your qualification, you have not graduated or you have not acquired any certificate as a degree holder. 

 

Postgraduates

These are the group that has acquired a professional qualification from a higher institution in their home country like Degree in Law, Accounting, 

Medical School Certificate, PhD, Masters etc

Who Should Study Abroad

The undergraduate students should study in their home countries while the postgraduate students can study abroad. This is because the students knows the environment of home countries and they are equally used to some legal issues and policies that guide students activities.

 

 Reasons Why Undergraduates Students Should Study In Their Home Countries.

1. Age: For people, this group consist of students below the age of 25 years. Their age range could be from 12 to 18 years. They find it difficult to adjust to their new environment abroad. The child can survive, and there is a chance that the child might derail in future because of difficult situations that they are faced with which makes the aim of sending such child abroad to study to be forfeited.
2. Cost: The school fees here are more expensive and is funded by the parents. The number of years is longer. Inflation may set in and cause a hike in the price of school fees.
3. Scholarships: There are a few scholarships for students in this category.
4. Work opportunities: The undergraduates find it difficult to secure opportunities in the foreign country they travelled to study. It may also be because they are still under-aged many organisations may not want to employ them because it will be child abuse.
5. Change in government policy: Because the number of years required to finished the undergraduate study is longer, if there is a change in government policy that will not favour them, it becomes difficult for them to survive.

 

Reasons Why Postgraduates Should Study Abroad

1. This group finds it easy to adjust to the environment of the new country. They matured and have been able to stay alone and take care of themselves. They have been able to make decisions at one point or the other in their life unlike the undergraduates
2. Cost: Most PhD or graduate programmes are funded by organisations and establishments. It is cheaper and the number of years to be spent on the programme is less.
3.  Scholarship: The graduate students have opportunities of getting a scholarship from the school or organisations around. the scholarship makes it easier for students to pay their fees
4. Work Opportunities: There are a lot of work opportunities because they are graduates and can work, the money they make while working can be used to take care of their dues, expenses and equally sustain them.
5. Change in government policy: Since it is just a 2years programme, the policy change might not affect them.

 

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It is advised that undergraduates should first study in their home countries before travelling abroad for further studies. it is not that they will not travel later but it is more profitable to travel to study abroad as a graduate student because they are a lot of opportunities to explore while still studying abroad.