Higher Education American Style

Kenney Jacob — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 02:56:56 +0000

Its only recently that I understood the American way of education. My friend Issac wrote GRE and went to the USA for his masters 3 years ago. A one hour voice chat session with him proved to be very informative.

In India we have a free education system. All government education establishments provide free education. Even many private institutions are funded by the government. The students gets to study for free.

But in the US education is not free. An MS course would cost you anything between 20 lakhs to 40 lakhs based on the course and institution. But quite a lot of students gets to study without paying any fees from their pockets.

The education system there is funded in a superb way. Students have lots of work options. They can work for various departments, they can assist their professors, even they can teach some subjects to their juniors. All of these are not difficult jobs. But they are provided as a means for the government to provide the student with a chance to pay for his education on his own. Also most of the universities are research places. Many companies outsource their research to these institutions and all that money goes into helping these students.

The beauty of this concept is that, students there value education more that we do here. We get it for free, and for them they have to earn it. When you earn something its a lot different from getting something for free. Also, paying for ones own education is an empowering act.Similar Posts:

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