What is your Destination

With liberalization and globalization, access to International education has become very easy to Indian students and they are increasingly finding it viable to pursue some part of their education abroad. Among a dozen of top destinations, the trend is going towards USA, UK, Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and China. Majority of the Indian students join for the Master and PhD level programmes and few students are also considering bachelors, diploma and other certificate programmes. While selecting the country and the institution, the following things need to be considered.

• Amount of Tuition fees
• Duration of Studies
• Living expenses
• Part-time jobs and Scholarships
• Getting job after studies
• Possibility of getting Permanent Residency

If we know the professions having in demand for each country, pursuing those course in those countries will lead for guranteed jobs and permanenet settlement. Australia and New Zealand have more demand for accounts and hotel management professoinals. France needs telecom, electrical engineers and fashion design professionals. Germany has potential for Engineering, Life Sciences, Bio-technology, Business management, Information Technology courses. Australia gives Permanenet Residency only to certain professionals. People working in New Zealand get automatic Permanenet Residency for Australia also. Scholarships are more in USA based on GRE, SOP, Academic records etc. Germany has scholarships for masters in agriculture, environment etc. France gives free accomadation to international students. The General Information on International Education with respect to Indian Students is given hereunder.

Studying Masters
Country	Total Expenses	Duration	Part Time work	Remarks
USA	10-20 lakhs	2 years	20 hours per week
UK	10-15 lakhs	1 year	20 hours per week
Australia	8-12 lakhs	1-2 years	20 hours per week
New Zealand	7-8 lakhs	2 years	20 hours per week
Germany	6-10 lakhs	2 years	90 full days or 180 half days in a year	Can work upto 4 hours a day
France	7-9 lakhs	1 year	20 hours per week