About USA

For Indians and other Asians, Americans is the best place to gp for higher studies. The US offers the most dynamic and adaptable education system responsive to the needs of a multi – cultural community from all over the world. It is estimated that every year almost 1,00,000 Indians go abroad to pursue education and out of these fifty percent head towards the USA. Be it Engineering or arts or any other field for that matter, American degrees are perhaps the most state of the art besides being practical in orientation. When you complete your studies in America and go out into the world, you are likely to be equipped with more than sufficient knowledge and confidence to work in any country anywhere in the world. The emphasis on practical implementation of a subject in real life is a major plus point of education in America. 

Education in the USA

Degrees like BA, B.Sc., BE and B.Tech. are called graduate degrees in India, these are called undergraduate degrees in the US. Any course other than in the field of engineering or Medical in India can be completed within a span of three years. It normally takes up to four years to complete a BA or BS in the US. Degrees like B.Sc. and M.Sc. are called BS and MS respectively. 

Master’s degrees are called graduate degrees in the US unlike the postgraduate nomenclature typically given to them in Asia. A Master’s degree will take another two years of study after a bachelor’s degree in the US. 

Doctoral degrees are called postgraduate degrees. Following the Master’s degree, you need to slog for another three years before you can call yourself a Doctor by earning a Doctorate or a Ph.D. Medicine courses usually taken even longer and are extremely expensive.

Degrees offered:

It is said that in the US, you can study what you want. You can study anything of your own choice and preference. As a Common belief, in the undergraduate degrees, you can even mingle the subjects. You can have Mechanical Engineering as your major and can study business communication skills as a minor subject. But this varies from university to university. A very broad range of subjects is available in the University. 

The Us has developed the archetypal image of an academic environment where nearly everyone participates in on-going research – not just in science and technology, but also in arts, culture, performing arts, drama, business and finance. Think of virtually any ticklish problem and we bet that it is being researched in the US. And they are many a times right. Especially when they can give you complete statistic s on what percentage of the population gets psychologically disturbed by listening to a clock tick throughout the day to a details thesis on the sex life of a scorpion!   

The point is that so much research is carried out in the US that more often than not, an international student can find financial assistance in an American University by offering to help in its research projects – which always need more and more assistance.

Research in the field of technology is the most innovative, with people working from all over the glob. It is commonly said that even if you send a donkey to MIT he will emerge waving three new patents and will possibly be an Astronautics expert by the time he passes out.

Living Cost: 

Living costs comprise of 

                ·         Room and board

                ·         Transportation

                ·         Books and Supplies

                ·         Personal expenses that vary from individual to individual

                ·         Health insurance 

If two or three persons are sharing a room, you may cut down your annual boarding and room costs to a minimum of $200 a month in a bigger city. The food costs another $50 to $75 throughout the whole country and postage and traveling in local buses will cost another about 40$. So in $350 or so you can survive for a month. If you are in a smaller city or a suburban location, this expense could be as low as $200 or $175. 

Job Opportunities

Most of the US Universities have a very large pool of funds. They are ready to shell it out but only your scores can snatch them. Many a times even an average student with a good GRE or GMAT score manages to get a large amount if funding or in a part. There are many job opportunities for international students. They can work as a research Assistants or teaching Assistant with their own professors. They can work either in the library or in the cafeteria. A full teaching assistantship may fetch you around $1500 whereas a half or a quarter assistant ship may fetch you around 800 or $400 respectively. This too varies from university to university. So comparatively it’s easy for an International student to bear the burden of the living costs at least. 

Entry Requirement

Twelve years of education is the minimum requirement for the admission to an undergraduate course in the US. So whether it’s a state board or the CBSE or the ICSE. You are passing out from, What you need is twelve years of schooling, excluding your nursery and kindergarten years.On the other hand, there are not minimum marks requirements, not any specific subject requirements. TOEFL is the only proof you need to show that you know English well enough to cope with the atrocious American Accent. Admission to Internationally known Institutions is highly competitive. You will need to have excellent academic records and high scores on academic entrance examination, if you apply to such institutions.

Links to Universities of US

What GEC can do for you?

We at GEC International Study Center are fully equipped to train you for the entrance examinations chiefly IELTS and TOEFL, Which is as basic requirement for admission in the US Universities. We also train you personally for the most crucial US visa interview. We provide you with the application forms and we also guide you all the way to making an application and getting admission to the university of your choice till the day you fly off for America! For more information kindly visit our office and our staff would glad to guide you!