studying abroad?

Question

I'm currently a sophomore in high school in the US and it's always been a dream of mine to spend at least one year in college abroad in another country. I'm most likely going to purseu a career in the law field (lawyer) and I'd like to know some good colleges/universities in the UK, Australia, and Canada that I could potentially study a year/more at...also how hard is it to get into those schools?
I'm looking into Ivy Leagues and schools like them here in the US.

Answer 1

G'day,

As you can see, every ppl will have different answers to your questions. The alumni and current students will definitely choose their own uni/almamater :)

Some may argue that the university belongs to The Group of 8 (www.go8.edu.au) are the 'famous' one and probably put it parallel to US' Ivy League. However they group was formed just to unify the promotional effort. The members cannot claim that they are the best at everything that they offers.

There are only 42 (soon to be 43) universities in Australia, all of them are fully accredited and they are tightly regulated, therefore the quality and recognition of their graduates are equal from wherever university you are studying from. The most important thing is you have to READ the course information carefully, since some courses may have the same name but different content.

There are quite alot of Australian universities offering Law courses to international students. To find out the course that you are taking and where it is offered, I suggest you to go to Dept of Education, Science and Technology (http://cricos.dest.gov.au) and IDP Education Australia website (www.idp.edu.au). IDP is an organisation that gives information to international students who wants to continue their study in Australia. The information abt fees & requirements can be found in the university's website. Please make sure that you access the information for internationals students, since some requirements, application form and fees are different than Australians'. Once decided on the uni, fill in the application form and send it together with certified copy of your academic qualification.

So with many options for your to choose, this is my suggestion to narrow down your choice:
1. Choose the city you want to study in. The consideration maybe the lifestyle, living cost and weather.
2. Find the area of law that you want to work/career in. This may be family/commercial/internationa... etc. Check if the uni's are offering the area.
3. You might also want to contact the US universities that you are interested to continue your law study to. Ask them if they have like credit transfer agreement with any Australian universities. This will ensure that what you will study in Australia will not go wasted.

Hope this helps. Good luck for your study and welcome to Australia :)

Answer 2

One of the things you might do is to look into the Study Abroad office at whichever school you end up going to. In addition to programs in which people can go abroad as a group, most schools are involved in exchange programs with similar schools. The advantage is that you would be sure that the coursework you took abroad would transfer to your home university. If you are at an Ivy or other prestige school, your possibilities for exchange would be top quality, and the fact is that schools of that caliber are often very hard to get into otherwise. Of course, it is possible that you would choose to go somewhere your school doesn't have an exchange program, and it can be done, but it is much more difficult to make it work smoothly.

Answer 3

yeah, it's possible, but u must remember if u study law in poland u study polish law, so u can't work in russia, because in russia they have their own law( russian), it's the same with UK, USA, Australia and Canada ( I know because my parents are lawyers), so think about it