Study Abroad Intakes in Germany: Winter vs Summer
Germany is the destination where the intake matters most and gets understood least. It does not run Fall and Spring. It runs a Winter semester and a Summer…
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Read the full storyI went to Australia for an MBA. I had wanted Canada but did not have the money for it.
The market crashed between when I applied and when I graduated. I did not get a single offer in the country I had moved to. I came back to India with a thirty-eight lakh loan that took two years after graduation to clear, and a degree I now had to explain to people who had not asked.
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- Class 11 or 12, weighing UG abroad versus UG in India.
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- Mid-career professionals calculating whether a foreign MBA pays back the loan.
- A parent watching the EMI math and trying to figure out if "no collateral" really means that.
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- Read the disqualifier sections. Every article has a "Don't do this if…" block. Most readers gloss over them. The ones who do not save the most money.
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