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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm also English and agree with PP.  It worries me a lot.  UK is better at undergrad.  US is better post grad IMO.[/quote]

From another European country, but exact same impression. Europe is both better and cheaper for undergrad, US is better and truly unique, regardless of cost, for post grad.[/quote]

As an American who did a number of years in European schools in France, Belgium and Switzerland, including high school and college, I think it's a lot more complicated than that.

Comparing a good U.S. high school and a top 20 U.S. university with good European schools, it's just a different approach.  In Europe the work was probably at a somewhat higher level, but there was also a ton of memorization and fact-based learning.  It was easy for me to get to the top of the class in Europe because I had more critical thinking skills than my counterparts did.  U.S. schools had more out of the box approaches, group strategic work, analysis, emphasis on internships, etc.

The price difference is compelling and of course European education can be excellent, but it isn't necessarily better than U.S. education if you choose the right school and the right major.[/quote]

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