You may be wondering after seeing the title of this post, what is this Erasmus Mundus all about! Well it is a student exchange programme implemented in Europe. Europe is a continent where education is not commoditized and not commercialized too. Quality of education is supreme there and student's requirements are given due attention to. Hence there is a student exchange programme which is widely run there and it is applicable to the students undergoing Master programmes. After first year, if student wants to go to some other university or country covered under the student exchange programme, his current university may allow him to do that provided his academic performance in the first year is good. Thus he can get a joint degree certificate at the end of two years of his Masters programme. University may also decide to give him some assistance or scholarship in the said process. Europe being largely covered by Schengen Visa, the student does not need to bother about taking another ...
American Lawyer and educator and the former President of Harvard University once said, "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." So true it is! Indian students when they think of taking education abroad, first are afraid of its cost. For any middle class family this cost becomes completely prohibitive and that stops the child from taking the plunge into the world class universities in the world. However I must say, there are immense opportunities even for the children of middle class families to fulfil their aspirations of learning abroad, especially in Europe. Affordable tuition fees and chances of scholarship are the two most important factors which weigh in favour of education in Europe. When someone hears words such as 'affordable tuition fees', the fear that comes to mind is probably the quality of education may be compromised. But that is not so in Europe. Europe is one of the education hubs in the world. Governments, industries contribute significan...