More American College Students Are Seeking Degrees On Foreign Soil

"It's not that schools in Europe aren't expensive," she said. "But I will be getting a Cambridge University education for the same cost of going to (the University of Illinois). I'm getting so much more bang for my buck." And there's a good chance Knoble will see peers from back home in her overseas classrooms. The number of Americans pursuing four-year degrees on foreign soil is on the rise, as students increasingly look to other countries for a relatively inexpensive alternative to U.S. schools while offering the same, if not more, prestige. The interest in Americans attending foreign universities is mutual. More and more, schools abroad are coming to the United States to recruit. Read more at:
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