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Personal experience: how does studying at an American university look like?

When you blog about your life, there is an opportunity to turn back a couple of pages and find old records about some events. Two days ago, I officially finished my master's degree in the USA and it is interesting for me to remember how, at the end of January 2017 (exactly 2 a year ago), I suddenly decided to storm the USA and enter an American university. Then I did not know anything about the place I wanted to go, nor about the universities, nor about GRE. Somehow I found in myself the motivation to deliver in the shortest possible time GRE, to collect tons documents and even go through an administrative check and get a visa 2 a month after the interview.

Impressions of the American University

Of course, studying in the United States has many advantages. There are many opportunities to learn what you like. Many new interesting subjects and approaches to education that other countries will adopt in the coming years. University campuses are entire cities with a developed infrastructure: here you can find free swimming pools / gyms, and American football university teams at real NFL stadiums (also free of charge), events, recreation areas with hundreds of brand new free MACs and many pleasant things in general. Teachers and the whole environment are often very motivated to create something great. Any student initiatives (even rather useless and stupid) are supported by professors and career departments of the university. In other words, it is good for students.

It sounds all very tempting. But there is one explanation for this whole celebration of life. All this banquet at your expense! All this pleasure will cost you dearly. Students pay bachelor programs for $ 4 100- $ 000 150 for the 000 of the year, which gives a turn even to average universities not in the first hundred of the order $ 2 billion per year! If we are talking about the quality of education, then in Russia it is somewhat worse. For example, in my native MAI, we didn’t even have any books, only torn bits of 20-year-old. However, if a student in Russia has a desire to study and he wants to develop in the chosen direction, we have excellent teachers with a Soviet training school who will teach the student no worse than in the USA. You may just have to buy a book somewhere yourself (by the way, in the USA all books are bought separately at your expense), once again ask the teacher to explain the material and make a little more effort to study. But it will all be free!

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The main difference between studying in the USA and Russia is that you study in the USA among motivated students who need to recoup the money invested, and in Russia the situation and students are not motivated to study. However, in America there is a frank negligence on the part of universities. We had two terrible classes. None of them we have learned nothing. The teachers just carelessly reacted to the duties and did not even check our work! We have done a lot of projects, not a single project has been evaluated, and we have not even received any explanation of whether we have done these tasks correctly. The total, minus $ 6600 for two subjects and exactly zero experience gained.

  • My verdict is: Universities in Russia are better than American ones in price-quality ratio.

Perspectives after studying in the USA

Do not believe those who say that studying in the USA is the most proven and easy way to immigrate to America. Now the easiest ways to immigration - the Green Card Lottery and marriage. Studying in the US will eat a lot of money and time, but in fact will not give special advantages. How about the situation after graduation? If you have completed a STEM specialty, you have a 3-year work permit. They don’t really want to hire you because you are not American. The main question at the interview will be: what after these three years? Work Visa? And we do not give working visas, sorry. International students are not really appreciated here, because there is a lot of competition and there are millions of people like you!

Employers have the opportunity to choose from 100 (and sometimes 1000) resumes. Most likely, you will eventually find something and start working. It is possible (but very unlikely) that you will even be given a work visa after working for them for two years. But everyone forgets that the H1B work visa is only a visa and not a green card. You are still in a rather precarious position as you are tied to one employer. The same employer will have to fuss again for you (and pay) so that you can then be given a green card. In general, if by some miracle you get a work visa, this will mean a rather slim prospect of getting a green card, maybe in 5 years.

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Simply put, after the American education you will not be in great demand and it will not open up great prospects in America. Strangely enough, but America is doing everything possible to make life difficult for foreign students and recipients of a work visa. You will understand me when you study here and start looking for a job, just like an international student. Most likely, everything will be reduced to marriage, and you will receive documents through marriage, and not through your studies.

All this has been described for STEM students. If you want to study marketing, PR or other non-technical areas that only give 1 a year work permit, then the chances of remaining very much tend to zero. You probably won't find work after graduation. And if they find it, they will have to leave in a year.

  • My verdict is: American University opens up prospects, but perhaps not in America itself. You can consider options to go to another country later. A definite plus - it will give a good international experience and make you a specialist for the whole world.

Summing up, I can say the following.

  • If you have unlimited finances (there are extra $ 100 thousand), then you can try to study in the USA for a career.
  • If you have money ($ 50- $ 100 thousand), but you have some kind of hard-earned and honestly earned money, then you can risk going to the STEM-specialty in America and then stay here to work. It will be necessary to prepare for the hardships, the big waste of their hard-earned money and a rather limited career. We'll have to work where they offer, without much choice. The invested money of the year through 3-4 after the end can be recaptured.
  • If there is no money and you want to go to the USA, then it is better to cost a career in Russia and become a high-class specialist so that America invited you to work. This option is very possible. Russia will make a career faster than in the United States.
  • If you want to take a loan, sell an apartment and invest it all in study in the United States, as a way of immigration, you do not need to do this.

These are the impressions. Honestly, it includes not only my personal experience, but the thoughts and experience of other students from different countries. I tried to write an article without embellishment, to tell everything as it is. I hope this will be useful to those who are thinking about studying at an American university.

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