College Choices I can make

[Anonymous 0]

I am currently thinking about college. I want to decide wether to get my Bachelor’s degree in Japan or the US. I want to major in Eletrical Engeneering. I will divide my calculations into two sections. The US college and the Japanese College.

US College

Tuition

The cost for The University of Illinois is $15,698 a year in state. $31,320 a year out of state. That is pretty high compared to the Japanese school.
Board
The cost of Board at The Univeristy of Illinois is $11,308 a year.

Acceptace Rate
The acceptance rate for The University Of Illinois is 66%. That is awful. Most of the time, looking for

College Life
There appear to be some good people, but there are also a lot of leftists there. And also I tend to hate American college kids. I just don’t like the concept of drinking and partying every day. I just had a apifany after writing that. If there were no women at college, there would be no partys or drinking. There are also drugs everywhereI like being alone, so I can’t have a roommate. The US college seems too social to be in my liking.

Japanese College
I will be using The University of Tokyo’s data.

Tuition
The tuition rate for a year at the school is 1,340,000 yen ($11,926.66) a year. Though as a forgner in the US, I can get a 30% discount of my tuition if I am privatly funded. That comes down to 938,000 yen ($8348.66). To think it costs more to go out of STATE in the US. But it is cheaper to go to Japan from the US.

Board
Around 98 square of space plus a private kitchen and bathroom costs around 590,800 yen ($532.25) a month. Totaling to around $6387 a year. That’s not a dorm, thats an apartment the university real estate gets.

Acceptance Rate
The acceptace rate for The University of Tokyo is 34.2%. This is pretty good for me. I’m not an MIT kid, though that is good.

Bonus Stuff
The thing is that I want to study Japanese for 2 years before going. At Akamonkai, you can pass the EJU (Exam For International Students in Japanese Univeristies) for around 1,340,000 yen ($13,172.73) in total. This is the one downside I can see to it.

Overall
The people there accually seem like good people. They drink, but they don’t have big parties that are bad, they sorta just hang out and have fun. Also, there are no drugs at all. I like that idea of a party. Not the Western Version.

Conclusion
I am tempted to go to Japan, but I still am deciding. May you in the comments give me some advice. I’ll check on this in the morning.

[StealthParticipant 5373]

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[joetechParticipant]

You won’t be taking gender studies in Japan. I think a more worldly education would be more enriching and open more horizons to you. I vote Japan. I hope you like noodles. I hear the Japanese are big on Yaki Soba (noodles).

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[Puffin StuffParticipant 24979]

I think it very much depends on your plans after college. If your into international affairs involving Japan, it sounds like a great way to go. But I would have a definite plan for a good job before you take on debt to pay for a degree that is useless.

It sounds expensive either way.

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[AwakenedParticipant 35204]

The “Japan” option sounds good, interesting, experiential, ETC. ETC. My problem with it is that you have to invest time, energy, and effort to learn the language, culture, navigation around a foreign country, ETC. ETC. It appears like a HUGE INVESTMENT of YOUR Time, Energy, and Effort.

If Your MAIN GOAL IS TO SAVE CASH, go to a junior/community college first and take all your bulls~~~ general electives and 100-200 level courses there that will transfer to a 4 year college. Community colleges in my area have transfer agreements with MANY colleges, some VERY good colleges I might add, that will accept ALL of their associate degree credits. You can work, make money, take classes, share an apartment or whatever.

You SAVE on tuition, you can still be employed making money, and you don’t have ANY “social issues” as all of these students commute, and they all go their own ways at the end of the day.

You can do the same thing when you transfer to a 4 year college.

If you commute, and live off campus, not only do you steer clear of all the over rated “college life” bulls~~~, but you can actually start living a real life as opposed to that of a college student in a an artificial environment like that on a college campus.

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[MorpheusParticipant 2177]

Are they offering the course in English or Japanese?

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