Why More Students Are Leaving the U.S. for College

[Purveyor]

By Sarah Grant
March 22, 2016 — 10:09 AM EDT

When Michael Ferrante, a 21-year-old college senior, returned to Baltimore to finish school after studying in Berlin for a year, he had only one regret—not having applied to college in Germany in the first place.

"It was infinitely cheaper to study in Berlin," said Ferrante, who graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a degree in German Language and Literature. In high school, he had planned on studying in Germany, but he applied to U.S. colleges because he was more familiar with American schools. "I feel like most Americans don't think of Continental universities as having the same academic rigor as top-flight American universities," he said, "But based on my experience in Germany, it's just a different kind of rigor."

It's also a different price tag. Ferrante said he paid $500 for two semesters at Humboldt and Die Freie Universität in Berlin and spent roughly $27,000, with financial aid, for the same amount of time at Hopkins.

More American students are choosing to study abroad. In the 2013-2014 school year, the number of U.S. students studying abroad was 72 percent higher than it had been in 2000-2001, according to a report from the Institute of International Education. Many students are choosing to go further than a one-semester break and attend all four years of college in a foreign city. The number of students enrolled in college outside their countries rose 463 percent from 1975 to 2012, said a report last month by Moody's Investors Service. International students in the U.S. have grown by 70 percent since 2005, according to the report.

Despite the growing interest in a global education, Americans have few guides to understand European college processes, which vary by country. "I was shocked that there isn't the European equivalent of a Princeton Review or a Fiske Guide because there's so much information [in the U.S.]," said Jennifer Viemont, co-founder of Beyond The States, a database of 350 colleges in 30 countries that offer bachelor's degrees taught in English. Viemont began the project four years ago when her high-school aged son expressed interest in going to college abroad. "Other than country-specific websites like StudyinSweden.com or StudyinDenmark.com, there's not a lot of literature out there," she said.

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-22/why-more-students-are-leaving-the-u-s-for-college

[CrispyQ]

1. No sane country

turns it's young people into profit centers, burdening them with huge amounts of debt, at one of the most critical times in their lives. All for a degree that may or may not get them a decent job, as those become more & more scarce. Our government has abandoned The People & now lets corporations prey on us. It's a disgusting affair & it's become more & more bi-partisan.

It's also a different price tag. Ferrante said he paid $500 for two semesters at Humboldt and Die Freie Universität in Berlin and spent roughly $27,000, with financial aid, for the same amount of time at Hopkins.

$500 vs $27,000

[underpants]

2. Humboldt sucks! Go Die Freie!!!!