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Scholarships/Funding/Aid for international students
So after completing the requisite forum search and going through old threads, I still have one question:
As a non-US American, am I pretty much hooped in terms of recieving (significant) funding from top-tier US schools? The topic of financial aid and scholarships at IVY league as well as well regarded public universties has been discussed ad naueseum on archinect already, as has the merits of going 100k+ USD into debt for school, however almost all of the discussion exclusively involves American citizens.
Are there any other internationals out there who successfully landed full-rides (or at least major aid) for M.Arch I programs at GSD or Penn (or similar)?
The sad reality is that I can in no way justify upwards of $35.000 tutition per year. There are American schools that really intrigue me, and I'm positive the education and expoure would be great, but from a purely financial standpoint, it just doesn't make sense without significant aid...Especially when one considers that I can essentially attend school for free in my home country (reasonable tuition, available government grants, graduate student fellowships), or study in my current place of residence for a paltry 500€.
Any thoughts / insights out there in archinectland?
Don't know about the Ivy League, but my class at a state school in the Midwest had 4-5 international students (out of a total class of 22). All of the international students had full tuition waivers and stipends through the program's graduate assistant program.
If you're open to programs outside the Ivy League you may want to look into what some of the state schools could offer.
Thanks for the response gresham. that's some encouraging news.
And yes, I'm absolutely 'open' to programs outside of the Ivy League.
In fact, I'd much rather go to a public institution (and pay pbulic tutition).
It just so happens that the two American schools that I'm most interested in are Ivy universities (GSD and Penn).
And just to clarify, my opinion is based soley on the student work I've seen and read from both schools, the course descriptions and faculty members involved (some of whom I've had the pleasure of talking to / working with in the past) and most of all, the recomendations from people I know and respect in the industry / academia.
mit is recognized for their generosity for giving out half/full scholarship to everyone upon admission and additional merit-based scholarship for excellent students. In addition, the school and in particular the Media Lab opens a lot of research positions that pay student generously for their effort. Each student is also subsidized to travel internationally for averagely 5 times during their MArch course. The school believes that minimizing financial burden for their students is far more important than employing starchitects who might usually show up for only a few hours each year. This is also possible because the school of architecture is relatively small as compared to its counterparts and the university as a whole enjoy good income from their sponsors.
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