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Whether or not studying in a foreign country, at least for one semester, is beneficial to all college and university students has been up for debate. Generally, people who assent to university students’ studying abroad emphasize its efficacy, lauding the fact that, despite it is transient, experiences in a foreign country are so impressive that they positively influence students’ creative thoughts and thereby their life. Given that, however, not only does such beneficial influence have a propensity to last temporarily, but also it is not true for all college and university students, the statement should not be followed imprudently; from a practical viewpoint, those who already enrolled a top world-class college or university need not to study abroad; moreover, college and university students can make a better use of study-abroad expenses by investing in surmounting their shortcomings domestically.
One of the reasons not all college and university students benefit from studying abroad rests upon the fact how much faithful students intending to study in a foreign country are to the purpose of studying abroad. In other words, considering that the main purpose of studying in a foreign country is to obtain an opportunity to get higher quality education, students already participating in top world-class courses don not need to go abroad. Consider the following case: notwithstanding all courses offered to a student by a university are not renowned for their excellence, if the university is proud of its particular major in which top world-class curriculums and faculty is provided; and if the student majors in the top world-class one, understandably, the student need not to strive for studying abroad. With that said, inasmuch as students who participate in a world-famous courses already enjoy their advantageous status, obtaining opportunities to study abroad is finitely beneficial only to those in need of them.
The other reason studying in a foreign country is not recommendable for all college and university students is that students can better invest the amount of expenses for studying abroad in their self-development in their country. Accepted as a societal notion about studying abroad is that students elect studying abroad as the wherewithal to develop themselves and thereby to gain the ascendancy over competitors. Nonetheless, given that the cost of studying abroad is not easily affordable for average- and low-income households, spending that amount of expenses on surmounting their shortcomings in their country can be a better alternative. That is to say, developing themselves in their country, university students can have a better opportunity to get higher quality education and thereby to gain the ascendancy over competitors at relatively lower cost. Therefore, not all college and university students should be educated in a foreign country so that the opportunity of studying abroad should become an advantage to those in need of them.
In the final analysis, despite studying abroad can be of great help to certain students whose educational circumstances necessitates such opportunity, all college and university students do not benefit from studying abroad necessarily; to be specific, students who already enrolled a top world-class college or university and those who can have a better opportunity to get higher quality education domestically, spending relatively lower cost, need not to go abroad. Conclusively, those who plan studying abroad should deeply ponder on its efficacy and thereafter should make a prudent decision since the positive influence of studying abroad shows a propensity to fade away apace |