Wednesday 11 February 2009

Essays: why students study abroad?

TOPIC 167: Many students choose to attend schools or universities outside their home countries. Why do some students study abroad? Use specific reasons and details to explain your answer.

Essay 1

Nowadays, more and more students choose to attend schools or universities outside their home countries. Then why studying abroad is so attractive even though it often means greater expense and more difficulties? We may say that those students are bound to benefit considerably from their foreign study experience.

The modern world needs people to have comprehensive knowledge and experiences. The world is no longer a separated one in which each part can afford to be totally independent. The communication and interchange in fields of culture, business, finance and other human activities are so unprecedented frequent and vigorous that the general or specific knowledge of other members of the global village turns to be most important to the prosperity of the country, or the success of a people. This kind of knowledge is usually bettered achieved if pursued abroad.

Furthermore, foreign experiences improve one's willpower and ability of adjusting to a new environment, and one's capability to overcome various hardships and setbacks. Young people are considered aggressive and ambitious. their success is not based on comfort or easiness, but on their incessant painstaking effort and their never-ending willingness to surpass themselves. In a foreign country they are confronted with greater challenges, more unsteadiness and less help from their families and friends. All these undoubtedly lead to an independent, self-supporting, resourceful person who will also be sympathetic and generous to other people around.

With these advantages, we may conclude that the foreign study experience enlarges a student's view of the world, as well as improves one's personality and character, which will guarantee a more splendid future in his life and career.

(Essay ID: 426 )

Essay 2

Now, many students choose to attend schools or universities outside their home countries. I think that there are a lot of reasons to explain this phenomenon and I would in here illustrate a few of the most important ones.

Firstly, I believe that these students would prefer to study in a foreign country in order to learn more advanced skills and technology. In general, these students intend to learn in a developed country such as the Unites States. Needless to say, the US is the most developed count cry. It has many famous universities such as the HAVARD. It is these famous universities that foster a number of eminent talents. It is these talents who let the US become the foremost country in the world. All of these are an appeal to attract many foreign students. After they graduate, they can apply the knowledge they learn to the construction of their own country. Maybe their homeland can become very developed someday.

Secondly, studying in a foreign country is helpful to learn a foreign language. In a foreign, you have to communicate with the others in the local language. In order to exist, you must force yourself to accept the challenge of language. I think that this is the best way to learn a foreign language.

Thirdly, understanding the foreign culture and appreciating the foreign landscape should be a reason. Although we can understand some circumstances of a foreign country through TV or internet, this way is absolutely not better than viewing in person.
After understanding the reasoning above, I believe that studying outside our countries should a very good thing.

(Essay ID: 310 )

Essay 3

Nowadays, there are more and more students choose to attend schools or universities outside their home countries. As far as I am concerned, there are several reasons for the students to do so. First, students study abroad due to the reason that they can learn more new knowledge and the new way of thinking. Secondly, they can make more new friends, and thirdly, they can grow more independently.

Students study abroad can learn more new knowledge and the new way of thinking. Having been studied for many years in the homeland, it is necessary for students to go abroad and accept the knowledge there. It is not because the new and plentiful knowledge but the different ways of thinking. These new things together with what were learned in the homeland would make a student develop in full scale and know more about the world.
In addition, when students are studying abroad, they will contact with students come from all over the world and surely they will become friends. students will not only have more friends but also gain knowledge from them during the communication and the association. They will talk about the history of their own country and the customs of their people and they will also help each other in study and daily life, all of which could benefit the students.

The last but not least, students in abroad may do things all by themselves. Therefore, they could get rid of the protection from their parents and learn how to face the difficulties, which help them grow independently and better.

Studying abroad, students could harvest a lot which due to the stating reasons above. In
conclusion, there are many students choose to attend schools or universities outside their
countries. If I have chance, I will definitely choose to study abroad.

(Essay ID: 456 )

Essay 4

Attending a university in one's home country or in another country is a question. Some people hold the opinion that attending a university in home country is superior to attending a university in another country. Others, however, contradict finishing their university education abroad. Personally, I would prefer attending a university in another country because I think it has more advantages.

There are numerous reasons why finishing university education abroad is preferable, and I would in here explain a few of the most important ones. The main reason is that communication is more and more important today. It takes place in almost every field of our lives, including the field of education certainly. So attending a university in another country can get direct and quick communication with the world. It can be given a concrete example. I am a law school student and my country's law education is influenced by that of Germany. So most of what I learned was translated from the books in Germany. Translation, you know, can't help twisting the writers' true meanings sometimes and always needs much time. So the result was that I got inaccurate information sometimes and always can not catch up with the latest views. What if I finish my university education in Germany? I thought later.

Another reason why I advocate the attitude of attending a university in another country is that it is contributed to complete my personality. Take the case of a thing that studying abroad means I can't rely on my family while only depend on myself when I meet troubles. This makes me independent.

Finally, attending a university in another country can bring me a lot of pleasure. The study and life overseas must be different from that in my home country. So finishing university education abroad not only gives me an entirely new study, but also gives me an entirely new life, which must be interesting. In addition, attending a university in another country also gives me a chance to make interesting foreign friends.

Of course, choosing attending a university in the home country also have advantages to some extent, for example, if you don't have much money, finishing university education in your hometown means a lighter burden for you.

But if all these factors are contemplated, the advantages of attending a university in another country in the home country. From what has been discussed above, we may finally draw the conclusion that if you finish your university education abroad, you get a complete study and a rich and colorful life.

(Essay ID: 48 )

Essay 5

Although students can get a good education in most subjects at their home universities, it is important to study abroad for some or part of one's college education. Study abroad can give a student competency in a new language, familiarity with a different culture, and a chance to grow in different ways.

One cannot deny that it is important to be bilingual or even multilingual in today's fast-paced world. We have a global economy and communication by Internet and satellite TV means we must be familiar with other languages in order to keep up with new developments.

Knowing another culture is also important today. Respect for other peoples and their traditions will foster cooperation and peace. We should all do our part to make sure the world is safe for our children. It will only be safe if we understand and respect other people and their culture.

When we are out of our environment, we feel more free to experiment with different ways of doing things. We are all individuals and we need time to be on our own, away from our comfortable nests. We may try different things and reject them. We might also adopt them. People can change and it is easier to change when you are away from your family surroundings.

Study abroad can be enriching. Not only can we learn a new language, understand more about a different culture, but we can learn more about ourselves too. At the same time, of course, we are getting an education in the formal sense.

(Essay ID: 49 )

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