[Music] why do so many people come to the us to get their education if we look at top 10 universities in the world eight of them will be here in the united states top researchers professors work in american universities graduates work as ceos of top companies they are prime ministers of countries if you graduate from an american university as an international student under certain conditions you can stay here for up to three years to work also there is an opportunity to get financial aid for your education especially if you are doing your master's or phd but for me education in the us is being a part of this amazing community of talented people setting with them spending years of your life together with them american university is not just a building it's a small town with its own museum church stadium labs let's walk around stanford campus today and talk about education in the usa i'm going to talk about how you can study here what do you need to do to get admitted how you can get financial aid and if you're an international student how you can get a visa let's walk around and talk about education in the usa [Music] let's talk about different levels of education in the us so you can come here for your high school but if you're an international student i think it is better that you graduate from school in your own country because if you graduate from a school here in the us when you apply for university they would actually look at your school ranking and your gpa your average grade there when you come from your own country they can't really tell whether the school was challenging or not so you have higher chances of getting admitted because you have higher chances of getting a perfect score back in your country and another thing if you come here for your high school that means new curriculum new environment new language and there might be a chance that your grades become lower so ideally if i were you i would graduate from high school in my own country and then come here either for bachelors it typically takes about four years to earn a bachelor's degree in your first two years of study you will be required to take a wide variety of classes in different subjects commonly known as prerequisite courses literature science social sciences arts history and so forth this way you can achieve general knowledge to get admitted to a bachelor's program you would need to take an sat or a ct and if you come from a non-english speaking country you would need to take a test like toefl or ielts and some colleges also accept the duolingo test please check the exact requirements and exams on the website of the universities you want to apply to and bachelor's is not the best level of education in terms of financial aid because it's not really finance especially for international students there is also an option to get admitted to a bachelor's program without taking any exams to do this you can take a program called pathway for one semester or more pathway programs are introductory courses that are designed to help international students build the skills and knowledge that they need in order to continue their degree some pathway programs even offer guaranteed admission to a partner institution however the cost of these programs is quite high it's also important to remember that it's highly unlikely that you'll get financial aid after finishing the pathway program the best thing you could do in terms of like financial aid and stuff you can come here for master's and phd in order to get admitted to a master's program you need to take either gmat or gre gmat you take it for economics related master's programs gre is for everything else and some universities don't require you to take gmat and gre and then you take toefl or isles to prove your english language proficiency if you want to do a phd in addition to everything that i mentioned you would need to propose a topic for your research but a cool thing about a phd there is like 90 chance that you will get financial aid but a phd is again a four year program you need to have your bachelor's from your own country or from another american university but then it opens up this whole world of research and you spend four years on campus researching studying and maybe teaching as well [Music] have you ever had this situation where you're kind of sure of what you want to study and what you want to be when you graduate but somehow your schedule consists of subjects that you don't really need and you feel like you don't need this doesn't really happen in the us in the u. s every student has an individual plan so basically in order to graduate in order to receive your diploma you need to have certain amount of lectures and certain amount of seminars which basically means that every student follows an individual curriculum another great thing about american education that i personally really like is that you can have major and minor for example i decided to do marketing so my major is marketing but i also want to understand the psychology of customers so i go to the faculty of psychology and i take my minor in psychology and this allows you to have this broad education in different spheres let's take a look at a few popular courses students take law legal education system in the u. s is one of the best in the world students can enroll in lower specialties only after getting a bachelor's degree direct admission with a high school diploma is not possible economics it can be finance business administration business analytics accounting business economics etc psychology is a popular and widespread subject in the us according to statistics four in 10 american adults 42 percent have seen a counselor at some point in their lives environmental studies students study modern problems of ecology and learn about different approaches to solving them computer science and computer engineering it is december right now and i'm wearing a light jacket as a person who doesn't like winter and doesn't like snow i am so so jealous because people get to study in this climate i attended my university back in petersburg and my reality was waking up every morning and walking through snow uh some winters had a lot of snow making my way to university and if you're watching this and you're like i am super excited about american education but i don't see myself spending a year or two in the us studying there's something i can recommend the courses that my husband and i take maybe twice a year or even three times a year it's called stanford continuing studies they have short courses they're available online and offline they cost like 300 maybe like 600 but you get the same professors stanford professors you get amazing community of students and the classes are one of the best and i think in like if you compare them to other courses on the market i took a course for 2500 and it was worse than a 300 course at stanford just because stanford has his brand and because they pay a lot of attention to the quality of their education so and you don't need to pass any tests you just apply pay and you take the course so highly recommend it if you just want to get this taste of top american education if you're determined to get bachelor's master's or phd in american university but you don't know where to start you don't know what your chances of getting financial aid are at linguatrip we have excellent specialists who know the answers to all your questions related to american education if you're determined to change your life i will leave an email in the description box below you can reach out to my team and get your questions answered if you want to study in the us you need a student visa and you might ask me marina is it even possible to get a student visa right now there are two things you need to remember first of all when you apply for a u.
s student visa the task of the us embassy is to make sure that you are a genuine student and you're not using your education in order to just immigrate to the us and that's it so you need to prove that first of all you have applied for a good university or good college because sometimes people would apply to a low-ranking community college that doesn't cost a lot and the question the embassy would ask is why have you decided to pursue education at that institution instead of getting education in your own country the second thing they're looking for is whether you have money to support yourself during your education if you got full financial aid from a university then there is like 99 chance i guess that you're going to get a visa so just a formality but if you did not receive financial aid for your education that means that you need to prove that you have enough funds to support yourself the funds could either be yours from your employment or you could have a sponsor or maybe you've done some really good investments and this is what you're going to use to support yourself another thing that they're looking for is proof that these funds are legal that you haven't stolen money that it is not like a weird loan so you or your sponsor would need to show a bank statement where you have your salary or again your dividends from your investments and another thing because we're in this weird era of countries and embassies closing you need to check whether u. s embassy is open in your country but what we've seen at linguatrip when we help our students get a visa we see that actually you can travel to another country where the embassy is open and apply for your visa there and again if you're a genuine student if you applied for a good university there shouldn't be a problem and another thing to remember is that if you apply to study in the us just after you graduate from your school or university this looks logical like you're continuing your education but if there has been a 10-year gap between your previous education and whatever you're doing now and you're willing to travel with your family there could be more questions again the embassy is always willing to know whether you're a genuine student or you're just using this education to immigrate so you need to prove that you are indeed a student who is willing to study in the us [Music] time to talk about money unfortunately there is no unified system in the u.
