Email, password – Harvard!
Login instead of an admission test: The edX platform offers online courses at elite universities
Study at a renowned US university and not even leave your desk at home? The online platform edX has made this possible since autumn 2012. Analogous to coursera.org or udacity.com, MOOCs (“Massive Open Online Courses”) are offered here, which come from very different disciplines – from “Introduction to Statistics” to “The Age of Globalization”. There are currently 33 courses available from twelve universities (including Harvard, MIT and UC Berkeley). Video lectures, tutorials and a forum support the teaching of the material. After successfully completing the tests, you will receive a certificate at the end. You won't get the coveted Harvard degree, but you will get an extraordinary learning experience and a real eye-catcher on your resume.
www.edx.org
Semester abroad light
Summer schools worldwide/DAAD scholarship program
You can use the semester break in a variety of ways: to write homework, improve your bank account or just hang out. However, if you are heading abroad with a thirst for knowledge, summer schools are probably the right thing for you. These educational stays lasting several weeks are offered by many foreign universities - from Graz and Helsinki to Costa Rica and Thailand to heavyweights such as Oxford, Harvard and Berkeley. The latter's offers in particular are quite expensive. A wallet-friendly alternative offers e.g. B. the DAAD with its “Go East” initiative. Summer and winter schools in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS countries are supported with partial scholarships.
www.goeast.daad.de
Become even more international
DAAD presents Strategy 2020
For all those who want to integrate a stay abroad into their studies, the prospects have never been better. An indicator of this is, among other things, the “DAAD 2020 Strategy” presented in April 2013. The German Academic Exchange Service formulated its goals for the coming years. This includes expanding the internationalization of universities and its global network. Around a third of the German student body is currently looking beyond their own university in terms of education - by 2020 this number is expected to increase to 50 percent with the help of DAAD scholarship and funding programs.
www.daad.de
Europe beats top American universities
Student cities ranking shows where quality and costs are best balanced
Where are the most renowned universities? How do companies evaluate the degrees they acquire there? Where do you meet a large number of students from all over the world? And what about quality of life and affordability? The international student city ranking QS Best Student Cities 2012 tries to provide an answer to this and tested 96 major cities. Sometimes with astonishing results: 1st place Paris, 3rd place London. Although the cost of living in both metropolises is quite high, the high level of internationality and excellent universities make up for this best in comparison to other cities. Boston – with its highly respected and expensive educational temples Harvard and MIT – “only” ends up in third place and is the only US city in the top ten. This is followed by Melbourne, Vienna, Sydney, Zurich, Berlin, Dublin and Montreal.
www.topuniversities.com/city-rankings/2012
Degree made in Germany
German universities abroad/New German-Jordanian campus in Amman
Germany has been exporting not only cars and machines, but also know-how in higher education and innovative study programs for years. The commitment ranges from the development of individual study programs to the establishment of faculties and institutes to the establishment of entire universities - from Egypt to Vietnam. Older projects include the Chinese-German University College (CDHK) in Shanghai, the German Institute of Science & Technology – TUM Asia in Singapore and the Andrássy Gyula German-speaking University in Budapest. On the other hand, the TU Berlin Campus El Gouna in Egypt and the modernized German-Jordanian campus in Amman are brand new. This is one of the most successful educational projects in the Arab region. According to German standards and supported by around 70 German universities of applied sciences, architecture, design, engineering and management can be studied here.
www.auswaertiges-amt.de/DE/Aussenpolitik/KulturDialog/Wissenschaft/DeutscheHochschulenAusland_node.html#doc364256bodyText4
At home and abroad
New internationally oriented study programs
International Business Administration and Operations Management, MA and M. Sc. (Munich University)
English-language double degree course, semester abroad at universities in the United Kingdom and the Asia-Pacific region (master's degrees from both universities), high practical relevance through cooperation with selected German companies
www.bwl.hm.edu
International Project Engineering, M.Eng. (Dortmund University of Applied Sciences)
engineering and business administration content, goal: qualification for management tasks in the industrial sector, topics e.g. B. Setting up a production facility abroad, stay abroad for at least four weeks
www.fh-dortmund.de
Life Science Economics and Policy, M.Sc. (Technical University of Munich)
English-language master's degree program with topics such as food security, climate change and the growing demand for raw materials, semester abroad at a partner university possible, subsequent fields of work: international organizations, industry or research
www.tum.de
Global Change, M.Sc. (Justus Liebig University Giessen/University College Dublin)
Topics include: climate change, population development, politics and communication, statistics, integrated professional internship, courses take place alternately in Germany and Ireland (master's degree from both universities)
www.uni-giessen.de
East Asian Studies/Chinese as a Foreign Language, BA (Georg August University of Göttingen)
is aimed at future Chinese teachers and translators, language training, regional studies and history; the fifth semester is spent at a Chinese or Taiwanese partner university
www.uni-goettingen.de
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