The truth about moving abroad is that sometimes it can be lonely, exhausting, intimidating and uncomfortable, but it is always invigorating. You grow to enjoy your own company and push boundaries you otherwise would not get near.
When I first became interested in study-abroad programmes, one of my biggest concerns was funding. After my first semester at the University of Texas at Austin, I had heard so many stories from my Korean professor about her students who had studied abroad.
Before attending college, going abroad had not been a goal for me. But as I studied a double major in Asian Studies and Asian Cultures and Languages, with a focus on Korea, I knew that studying abroad would help me become more immersed in my studies.
There are lots of reasons why studying abroad might be for you.
You might find a degree course that isn’t available in your home country; you might learn to live independently; or you might network with amazing people and learn about other cultures. Whatever your reason for considering the experience, there are so many more positives. And if you don’t believe us, just look at what real students had to say about studying abroad.
Have you heard? Some changes are happening to the TOEFL iBT test to make things easier for students.
Here are the ways in which the test is changing:
- It is getting shorter: From 26 July 2023, the TOEFL iBT test will now take less than two hours to complete. It will become the shortest of the three most widely used English-language testing options. What’s making it shorter, you ask. Great question.
As an international student, searching for scholarships is one of the biggest tasks you will undertake before you head off to study abroad.
It can be difficult to know where to start because there are many different scholarships and partial scholarships that international students can apply for.
Thanks to artificial intelligence (AI), university admissions and assignments are undergoing a revolution, and now is the time for students to take advantage of the opportunities this presents.
Although it is entirely common – even natural – to feel apprehensive about the rise of AI, there is a silver lining that cannot be ignored: students can use AI programmes to help them with university applications and university work in a way that is accepted by universities.
Canada is the most popular study-abroad country, according to a global survey of 21,000 students from more than 100 countries.
Students were asked which countries they were most interested in studying in, in the Emerging Futures survey conducted by IDP Connect. Canada was the most popular answer, with 27 per cent of respondents placing it as their first choice.