How to choose the right school or College in Abroad?

Board exams are over — the golden period of school days comes to a sudden end. It’s the time to understand a term so carelessly used before — career.

It’s the toughest part of life, trying to figure out where to begin from. Unluckily, in India careers are mostly decided by parents; students rarely get a chance to decide what they want.

It’s a good idea to match your career options with your skills and favorite. Take your time and learn about the likely options and how to achieve them.

Your career actually begins with choosing a college. It is a big decision. The key is to remember that there’s no such thing as a “perfect” college. You will require to find out the list of colleges and universities that match your preferences.

And one of the biggest issues is one increasingly facing Indian students. Should you sit for a competitive exam and qualify for a renowned college in India or should you go abroad? There are loads of confusing questions associated with this problem, so let’s get started.

Discover College

Discover your interests and take the time to find the college that’s right for you. It’s always better to do a bit of research before you go to any consultant. It makes his or her life easy too. Once you have discovered the options, start deleting those names that you don’t find useful or promising. Find the college courses most interesting for you.

Make a decision the place you want to study?

Once you have discovered the universities based on your choice of course, a big task still remains. You need to decide which country you want to go and why. Is it the glory called United States or is it the United Kingdom? Or the lovely country called Australia? You need to do a SWOT analysis [Strength, Weakness, Opportunity & Threat] which will help you to decrease your list even further.

A useful look at these few things may make you feel much more relaxed:

(1) Which Courses do you want to study?

(2)Does it match with your desired career option?

(3) How are the lecturers/professors?

(4)How is the Alumni Relationship?

(5)Are there any job/placement opportunities

Financial plan

It is good to have goal. Keep in mind your budget, too. A lot of parents look for a bank loan or scholarships — I’ll come to that later — as a means to fund his/her son/daughter’s higher academic needs. Please keep this in mind: bank loans are not gifts but a responsibility to be repaid back. One needs to be practical to decide on the country and the course based on his/her financial standing.

Bank Loans

A number of nationalized banks suggest Educational loans for students aspiring to go overseas. It needs to be remembered: banks only provide a loan once they are sure of its repayment.

Scholarships

A word of wisdom — never ever depend on a scholarship for overseas Study. The reality is not every one gets it though every one wishes to get it. It depends greatly on your university and partly on your merit. . Our suggestion is: if you get it, good, but never depend on it.

Misconception

We receive at least 40-50 enquiries every day asking us to arrange for a scholarship or a bank loan. It needs to be clarified that no consultant can organize for a scholarship directly. They can assist or guide you to get one. The same is true with a bank loan.

A consulting company can refer your request for a loan to a bank but it is completely the judgment of the bank whether you are eligible for a loan or not. I have personally received enquiries like this: “Please tell me which University offers a loan for students?” I want to drive home this point straight away “No University offers loans to foreign students.” There are grants/bursaries for students of the home country.