Education abroad: why Ukrainian travel to Germany

Studing abroad has become a fashionable practice in wealthy families. But increasingly Ukrainian even small towns with average earnings send their children to study in Germany and Poland.

Why so?

So quite strange: Germany is one of the most expensive countries and also very attractive to inspect Ukrainian of education. The great advantage of Germany is a free higher education. That is, the public universities of Germany, which make up about 90% of the country’s universities, education is free.

Why Ukrainian not to study in their own country?

Most students left, argue their choice by the fact that most universities to Ukraine corruption prevails at every step, from the entry points to the current and graduation. Also, students of certain specializations complain of outdated teaching methods, lack of equipment or faulty (eg, programmers, doctors, etc.), reflecting the desire to learn. Of course, not everything is so simple with the introduction to the German university. First, free tuition at public universities is mostly in German.

The level of knowledge of the language mainly depends on the chosen specialization and school. Some universities sufficient level B1-B2, and some already require C1. There are also English-language programs that provide mostly private universities, but they are paid and cost thousands of euros. To achieve the level of German students, foreigners practicing in college at the University selected because there might be too low requirements on the linguistic level, compared to the university.

Secondly, each State University has the right to form a so-called administrative fees, which can be very modest – 50 euros for a semester or a maximum – 500 euros for 1 semester.

When the act?

Launching the campaign, which provides education autumn begins in spring and ends June 15. But in most German universities can enter twice a year. There are so-called winter semester, which begins in September and October, and summer, which starts in late March and April. Applicant may itself choose when it is more convenient to enter.

How much cost an annual residence?

To confirm the financial capacity to provide their own needs students need about 8,000 euros per year. This is money which the student uses in its sole discretion, it’s about 660 euros a month. This amount is enough to pay the rent, eat, dress and even a little travel in Europe. This amount should be added the cost of insurance and administrative fee university.

There is also a significant advantage: after paying the fee seems a student and a ticket that provides access not only to the university resources (library, sport section …), but also provides free transportation all kinds of public transport in the city of residence, and sometimes within the entire federal land. In addition, the students have their own dining room where you can eat much cheaper than a cafe. In the dining room lunch cost is about 4-5yevro for a huge portion.

Features of education and employment.

Now the German government has a policy of encouraging foreign students. For example, there is a program of investments aimed at increasing the number of foreigners in the next 5 years (to 2010roku) to 350,000 people across Germany. Country creates a comfortable learning environment for students and stay with the whole world. In addition, many universities have the option of obtaining a double degree: one main specialty, and the second – More. This may be related specialty, and may be from different areas.

The system for training practices radically different from Ukrainian universities. In Europe, educational practice does not provide required documents, and provides real skills and understanding of the profession In addition, during the training, students are mostly paid internship in the workplace. Thus, receiving a bachelor’s degree, graduates are already ready specialists.

Also, after obtaining the bachelor’s degree students are eligible for 18 months of legal stay in Germany, even if the student visa expired. This time is given for job search.