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- | Hi Everyone,
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- | This is the initial version of the studying in france guide. I hope to add some points soon:
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- | STRONG POINTS:
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- | - Education is free in all the education programs in french (except business and/or programs in english)
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- | - French Universities are ranked among the best Universities in the World (around 10-15 unis in the top 200) with some
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- | Universities such as University of Toulouse and Sorbonne University dating back around 700 years.
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- | - The real french strength are the specialized french engineering schools called "Grande Ecoles" about which the
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- | ranking institues/people don't well much. I am quite sure that if entered they would be among the the best in the world
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- | - French business schools dominate europe. The best business school in Europe is also french (HEC)...yes higher than LSE
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- | check out website of (HEC - Paris)for ranking and other details.
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- | - France is a Social Welfare State. The government pays about 40% of your house rent and this is valid for all the students
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- | and people with not too high salaries.
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- | - The health is for a large part free and state owned... so no payment for medicine/hospitalizations etc
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- | - Its the most visited country in the world and its a really beautiful country
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- | - Good chances of getting an academic scholarship/Industry scholarship for Phd and eventually a job if you are in the
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- | domains of electrical engineering, electronics or telecommuniations
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- | - You can travel around in europe quite cheaply and without any visa problem (around 15 schengen countries i.e. no visa
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- | required).... this is something that people going to Uk/USA would probably miss out
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- | WEAK POINTS:
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- | - Very difficult to survive without knowing french
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- | - If you are coming here just for a Masters degree than please be ware that the french education system is totally
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- | different from that followed around in the world and the coursework of masters is considered as merely a revision of
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- | concepts (i.e. usually 5 four hour classes in two weeks and its done). So theres no "learning" time or aspect. Actually
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- | you get about 3 months to complete 8 courses, so you can well imagine. The research part of masters is however much
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- | better. So better come here for a phd/job
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- | - The English language based Masters programs are quite costly usually although some have found cheap ones also
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- | - Getting good jobs can prove to be difficult particulalry if you are not in the electrical engineering, electronics or
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- | telecommuniations domain
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- | In any case, France remains to date an interesting destination for studies.
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- | Please check out the edufrance website http://www.edufrance.fr/en/ for more details.
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- | I will be updating this page soon.
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- | Regards
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- | Usman.
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