Overseas Study

Studying overseas ensures you add a whole new dimension to your academic world by experiencing a different learning culture, massive sightseeing opportunities and experiencing the local culture at ground level rather than as a tourist.

There is a plethora of universities to choose from internationally. You could go quite mad from the choice in one country alone....apart from Liechtenstein. But even this tiny principality of just 160 sq kilometers has four universities.

So how do you, a person who has better things to do than studying 3,500 university handbooks, work out where to apply for?

Well, make things easier for yourself.

Head down to your own university's student centre and talk to the student centre about international study. They'll have loads of information about how they can help get you heading overseas.

The Student Centre may have lots of info, but getting them to give you the info you need is another matter. So head to the web page of your university's overseas study section and read it. That way, the info they give you will then make more sense. Often how it works is that a university will accept an international student to study with them, for each student that it sends overseas. The higher the prestige of a university, the more requirements it has. Universities like Oxford or Cambridge rarely accept international students for part of a degree. As a result, many universities tend to have partnerships with similarly ranked overseas universities. These 'partner uni's' make it much easier to study between them, in fact your university may say that if you want to study at a university which isn't a partner, you're on your own. You would have to pay in full, get no grants, sort out academic yourself, etc. So....stick to the partner uni's!