Study Abroad Year on Under Graduate Degree- Costs?

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Morning All 😊

Dd has offers from Lancaster, Leeds Liverpool and Newcastle for Law degree studies. Dd is wanting to do a year abroad, so a 4 year course and I wondered how much very approx this would cost (I will speak to unis). I know flights, accom, living costs etc will be needed, and I am expecting fees from the uni abroad. Anyone's child done it, and if so can't you kindly give me an idea of what to expect. I a hoping you can still get loans for that year - we are not rich! I would hate for her not to do it, but we need as much info as possible.

Many thanks 😊

Good luck to you DS Needmore, hopefully 3rd time success. Mine is desperate to return so I think is trying to speak to a handful of UK post grads at the current US university to see how they have managed to navigate the system

Fourtysix, others will know more than me and I suspect varies a lot by subject. DS is in the middle of a 10 month Masters which is well known, rather technical and seen as a good preparation for a PhD. It means his fellow students are from all over - he is the only Brit out of 40 - it is expensive and they are having to work very hard. It seems to be paying off as he and his friends seem to have picked up funded PhD offers from a variety of good US Universities. If he were to get a research assistant job it would help round his CV so he might try to defer his PhD. It would be a nice problem to have. As well as asking peers and academics he seemed to get a lot of information from sites like GradCafe. Though the trolling and abuse on one site I looked at, made MN and The Student Room look like oases of calm and kindness.

He is lucky in that he has been clear about what he wanted to do from a surprisingly young age. The US is apparently the place to study his subject. But he has not got to the point of being a credible applicant without working very hard indeed.

I do not think there is a problem with studying in the Usa but internships are another matter. Working too can be problematic.

If it is of relevance to anyone, my DD is in the second year of a four year degree at a US uni. She couldn't work in her first term (not sure why, but she wasn't allowed to work on or off campus), second term she got a job in one of the dining rooms. In her second year, she has a paid on campus internship. I dont get the impression it is hard to pick up jobs, I know her friends are paid for lab work, and tutoring younger students. I don't think it would be easy to get a paid job off campus though.

Bubbles why do you say this.

DS is on a short list for a 1-2 year internship with an American public sector institution. One of his (European) friends has an offer. There seems to be a reasonable amount of movement on both sides of the Atlantic at PG level. I assume the same will also happen with STEM.