2. Being Educated
“The most important
thing that schools
can do is to make
people aware that
understanding the
world is very much
part of the
requirement of being
an educated person.”
Fareed Zakaria
Editor of Newsweek International
3. What is Study Abroad
Study abroad can be an enriching and eye-opening
adventure, where learning extends to the world
beyond the classroom walls. There is no substitute for
living and studying in a foreign country if you want to
gain in-depth knowledge of another culture's customs,
people, and language.
In addition, you will find that living and studying or
working in another country can develop important
transnational competencies that can be of interest to
future employers.
5. A Variety Of International Experiences
Commercial affairs
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9. Why Study Abroad
Study abroad is the optimal way to learn a language. There is no
better and more effective way to learn a language than to be
immersed in a culture that speaks the language you are learning.
You're surrounded by the language on a daily basis and are seeing
and hearing it in the proper cultural context. Language learning
happens most quickly under these circumstances.
Study abroad provides the opportunity to travel. Weekends and
academic breaks allow you to venture out and explore your
surroundings - both your immediate and more distant surroundings.
Since studying abroad often puts you on a completely different
continent, you are much closer to places you might otherwise not
have had the opportunity to visit. Some more structured study
abroad programs even have field trips planned in or around the
curriculum.
10. Why Study Abroad
Study abroad allows you get to know another culture first-hand.
Cultural differences are more than just differences in language, food,
appearances, and personal habits. A person's culture reflects very
deep perceptions, beliefs, and values that influence his or her way of
life and the way that s/he views the world. Students who experience
cultural differences personally can come to truly understand where
other cultures are coming from.
Study abroad will help you develop skills and give you experiences a
classroom setting will never provide. Being immersed in an entirely
new cultural setting is scary at first, but it's also exciting. It's an
opportunity to discover new strengths and abilities, conquer new
challenges, and solve new problems. You will encounter situations
that are wholly unfamiliar to you and will learn to adapt and respond
in effective ways.
11. Why Study Abroad
Study abroad affords you the opportunity to make friends around
the world. While abroad, you will meet not only natives to the
culture in which you are studying, but also other international
students who are as far from home as yourself.
Study abroad helps you to learn about yourself. Students who study
abroad return home with new ideas and perspectives about
themselves and their own culture. The experience abroad often
challenges them to reconsider their own beliefs and values. The
experience may perhaps strengthen those values or it may cause
students to alter or abandon them and embrace new concepts and
perceptions. The encounter with other cultures enables students to
see their own culture through new eyes.
12. Why Study Abroad
Study abroad expands your worldview Students who return home
after studying abroad return with a much wider perspective about
the world, people, cultures. They become much less biased towards
their own culture and learn to accept the different, colorful
characteristics & idiosyncrasies from all over the world. Otherwise,
many would tend to remain uniformed about the world beyond their
nation’s boundaries.
Study abroad gives you the opportunity to break out of your
academic routine. Study abroad is likely to be much unlike what you
are used to doing as a student. You may become familiar with an
entirely new academic system and you will have the chance to take
courses not offered on your home campus. It's also a great
opportunity to break out the monotony of the routine you follow
semester after semester.
13. Why Study Abroad
Study abroad enhances employment opportunities.
To an employer, a student who has studied abroad is self-motivated,
independent and willing to embrace challenges. Your experience in a
foreign country will all set you apart from the majority of other job
applicants Study abroad is an excellent way of adding a substantial
edge to your curriculum vitae. Study abroad helps in developing
cross-cultural communication skills. Study abroad is an outstanding
preparation for the global employment market. For example, Indian
students pursuing education in British universities can now work in
the UK for two years after completing their courses, instead of one
year as allowed earlier. Similarly, Indian student’s pursuing education
in Australia can get Temporary/Permanent Residency after education
if they wish to work there further.
14. Why Study Abroad
Study abroad can enhance the value of your degree.
While abroad, you can take courses you would never have had the
opportunity to take on your home campus. In addition, study abroad
gives your language skills such a boost that it is normally quite easy to
add a minor in a language or even a second major without having to
take many more additional courses after the return to your home
campus.
Study abroad provides an opportunity to move outside your
academic comfort zone. A study program involves new experiences,
new perspectives and new networking opportunities. Study abroad is
also a wonderful chance to enhance your existing skills and
knowledge.
15. Why Study Abroad
Personal Growth
Students who return from a study abroad program often see it as an
experience which matured them personally and intellectually. They
praise being exposed to new ways of thinking and living, which
encourages growth and independence. For many students, going
abroad to study is the first time they have really been away from
'home,' from familiar surroundings of the USA, as well as from friends
and family. This is seldom an easy experience, but it is universally
praised as worthwhile, often even life-transforming. After immersing
themselves in a new culture, mastering the challenges of learning in a
new and different academic environment, and experiencing the many
highs and lows of being a 'foreigner,' students typically return home
with increased self-confidence and justifiable pride in what they have
achieved.
