Example Of Thesis Statement On Why Study Abroad?

When going to college a person is probably to make one of the most important decisions in his entire life, a decision which will influence tremendously his future. That is why it is so important not to get lost among the vast variety of opportunities one can embrace after leaving school. Therefore, choosing to go study abroad is a very topical question. So what are the main incentives urging people to enroll in foreign scholar establishments?

As for me, I would divide incentives into three categories – professional, personal and cognitive.

As per professional incentives, by highlighting them I mean that to a school leaver going to study abroad may deem worthy, before everything, because somewhere abroad the area which a potential student wants to study is better covered by the syllabus of that foreign institution that by any of his local ones. For instance, if you are from a Middle East state and you want to study business somewhere in a European institution renowned for good teaching of business, you should go to London Business School. Also, sometimes a very vital incentive is that the diploma of your preferred foreign University adds up to the value of your degree. Another incentive may be the fact that foreign education will give you better chances for competitiveness in your own country when being employed.
What touches upon the second group of incentives – personal ones, by them I mean desire of a student to go study abroad in order to start an independent life, in order to challenge himself and fully plunge into a new entourage than the one he used to have. This correlates with desire of people in their late teens (namely at this age the majority of people apply for colleges) both to start a new stage in their lives and to learn how to make a living on their own, no matter how obviously harder that would be both to adapt to a new society and to earn enough money to support oneself. On the flip side, going to study abroad may have a radically different, yet personal incentive – maybe education in some countries is just cheaper (France compared to US) or free at all (like in Germany), which makes it more beneficial in financial terms (and no less beneficial in educational terms) to go study abroad.
Finally, the third group of incentives deals with cognitive opportunities, like one to study the language of the country you are travelling to study in, to plunge into the culture of the people inhabiting that country and investigate cultural differences or just making friends in that specific country.
So, as one can see there is a great variety of reasons to look into the possibility of going to study abroad.

List of Works Cited

Obst, Daniel. “Top 10 Reasons to Study Abroad.” Institute of International Education. 15 Jan. 2015. Web. 15 Jan. 2015.