Before
you determine what field you are interested in, you will have most certainly
pondered all the pros and cons of your potential choice. On the other hand, a
part of you will not have contemplated a few steps - or sometimes decades - in
advance, but will have made the decision in the twinkling of an eye. In the end
there are no rules that would say one way is right, and the other one is not.
Scientists have said that children as early as in the fifth grade already know
what they would like to become, and that by the beginning of their college
education they are only developing a vision of their future.
Once
you have considered a particular career as a possibility, things might
complicate - the first issue being whether to listen to your heart or your
mind. Our minds often impose subjective points of view of the society and our
immediate surroundings, which will undoubtedly encourage us to choose that
career up to that point when we forget what our heart's and our own desires
are.
Whether you’re just leaving school, finding opportunities
limited in your current position or, like many in this economy, facing
unemployment, it may be time to consider your career path. By learning how to
research options, realize your strengths, and acquire new skills, as well as
muster the courage to make a change, you can discover the career that’s right
for you. Even if you’re trapped in a position you don’t love, with no realistic
opportunity for change, there are still ways to find more joy and satisfaction
in what you do.
And whether you’re embarking on your first career out of
school or looking to make a career change, the first step is to think carefully
about what really drives you. You might find it hard to get past thinking about
“what pays the most” or “what is most secure,” especially in today’s economy.
But the truth is most employees rank job satisfaction above salary in ensuring
they feel happy at work. So, unless you’re in a situation where you have to
take the first available job to make ends meet, it’s important to focus on your
primary interests and passions. This can open doors to careers that you might
not have considered. Once you have that foundation, you can start fine tuning
your search for the right career. You may be surprised at how you can fit your
passions into a new career.
Evaluate your strengths and skills
Once you have a
general idea of your career path, take some time to figure out what skills you
have and what skills you need. Remember, you’re not completely starting from scratch—you
already have some skills to start. These skills are called transferable
skills, and they can be applied to almost any field. Some examples include:
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management and leadership experience
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communication (both written and oral)
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research and program planning
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public speaking
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craft and art design
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conflict resolution and mediation
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managing your time effectively
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computer literacy
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foreign language fluency
These
skills can help you to narrow your focus on a particular career, and choosing
that career for you will be very easy.
To help you
farther, go through a university course catalog to help you broaden your
knowledge about different academic careers. Circle all items that interest you.
Categorize your choices and see if there is a trend towards an education path
that resembles your interests.
Do not be afraid to
admit you have made a mistake and that you need to change your choice. This is
the major reason why it is so important to choose a broad field that matches
your skills, so that you can move across a field or several fields to change
the type of career you are doing until you find a niche that fits well. Do not
spend your life putting up with substandard careers.
So, choose wisely
and select a field that encompasses as many of your talents as possible, to
allow you to the greatest freedom and leeway for shifting around a field doing
different jobs with a good set of basic skills, along with a good dose of solid
confidence in your worth and abilities.
Medicine is
considered the most noble profession in the world. It is one of the most highly
respected professions. Medicine is also considered a calling and the majority
of doctors find their work highly rewarding and enjoyable.
Also, gaining admission
into medical school is not easy as it demands to have a very good result from
High School and a lot of hard work as well. Medicine is a science, therefore
you will need to have strong scientific ability. You must also possess the
capacity to learn and to retain large amounts of information. You will need
good analytical and reasoning skills. Medical practice requires lifelong
learning and the work can be challenging. Therefore you must be highly
motivated by a strong interest in medicine. On average, obtaining a medical
degree will take about 5 years of your life in the medical school (6 years in
most European and African countries, and about 4 years in the Caribbean). Upon
graduation, you will be awarded an MD or MBBS or MBChB, depending on the country
or the university you attended. And after graduation from the university, if
you choose to work as a doctor, you will be paid a very reasonable salary that
will be comfortable for you and your family. However, your salary will increase
as you become a specialist or more experienced.
WHY SHOULD I STUDY MEDICINE?
Here we bring
you some of the advantages why you should study medicine.
1. Plenty of opportunities upon graduating
This reason is rarely stressed properly, but it is a fact. After graduation
there is a broad range of opportunities for future job. In case you find none
of the possibilities appealing, you can combine them or invent your own path of
further specialization. Upon finishing medical college you can choose to work
in hospitals, science institutes, public health care or be part of the medical
segment of some other science. There are doctors who are managing health care
costs in economical sciences, or cooperate as a part of judicial sciences in
proving medical errors and patients' rights.
Be that as it may, do not worry in case you do not
see yourself as a future pediatrist or surgeon; you have six years to decide
what exactly you are interested in.
2. Working
with people
A lot of students name working with people as their
primary reason to study medicine. If you are a people person, medicine is the
right choice for you. It is of vital importance to stress that to work with
people you absolutely must have a great deal of tolerance towards endangered
social groups, e.g. the old and disabled.
In course of your studies you will be able to
improve this skill even if you do not have a particularly developed affinity
towards working with people. During your studies, but also later in hospitals,
you will meet a lot of people besides patients - patients' families, medical
staff, technicians, administrators etc. As a part of your medical training you
will also learn not to form bonds towards patients and their diagnoses or
faiths, which is an extremely delicate problem especially when it comes to children.
3. The
ability to help people directly and make them happier
This has always been the main reason why some
people enrol into medical college. The progress of the human kind and
civilization is the purpose of almost all of the college programmes. Medicine
participates in this process in the most direct way. The most doctors would say
that there is no greater joy than the one you feel when you manage to help a
very sick patient or when a group of scientists discovers a new medicine for a
certain disease. The ability to directly help the curing process is also a
challenge and sometimes it is not easy to cope with it. For this reason your
medical education will prepare you so you can land on your feet in 99% of the
cases.
4. Team
work
Medicine nowadays is based on team work. You will
be divided into smaller groups already while at college and this will give you
a chance to perfect your people skills. These skills will also come in handy
later when you start practicing medicine; not only does a doctor cooperate with
nurses and other doctors on daily bases, but he is also a mentor figure and a
role model for his students.
Without team work you cannot succeed in the field
of medicine, so if you are a ‘lone wolf’, you might want to reconsider whether
medicine is the right choice for you.
5. Respect in society
Whether we want to admit it or not, doctors are
always on the top of the social scale. Whether you go to the theatre or to the
cinema you should know that you will be noticed. Not downright like Dr. Oz, but
a certain part of people will pay attention to you too. This also represents a
great responsibility because it is not seldom that a doctor is also a moral
authority, especially in smaller places.
On the one hand, this could be a problem because
some cannot bear this responsibility and cannot come to terms with the fact
that they have lost a part of anonymity that majority of people has. On the
other hand, this respect in society is a major factor while choosing the field
of medicine for some people. The fact that a lot of doctors end up in politics
and continue their careers as politicians supports this theory.
6. A great
need for doctors
World needs more doctors. The situation in Europe
is really good compared to some other continents like Asia or Africa. There are
also differences in numbers and need for doctors in different European
countries. A lot of EU countries that have forbidden or restricted employment
of foreign citizens do not apply this decision on doctors. In most cases
medical students get a job sometimes even the very day they graduate.
7. Safe
job, career, and lifestyle
Another not quite irrelevant reason to study
medicine is a certain stability upon graduation. This reason is becoming even
more prominent in countries still coping with recession and in a situation
where it is becoming harder and harder for young people to find a job. In case
this is your decisive reason for studying medicine, be aware that this is not
an easy or a simple job, but a job with a lot of sacrifice and personal
investment. Nevertheless, a job is waiting for you.
8. Constant
ameliorating
The end of medical studies does not mean the end of
learning. Quite the opposite - your college is providing you with basics for
further knowledge and skill development. Summits and seminars are often
organized in exotic locations in order to attract as many doctors as possible.
A lot of students see this reason as the significant difference in comparison
to other studies and for this they point medicine out as a unique example of
constant professional perfecting.
9. White
coat
This reason might seem funny to you, this may not
even seem like a reason to study medicine to you, but as something irrelevant.
Nevertheless, some students look forward to putting on their white coats during
practicing in class. White coat, other than being a clothing item and a part of
doctor's uniform, is also a representative of the order of the medical system,
cleanliness of the job, and high hygiene standards. A tidy and clean coat is
emitting a clear doctor's attitude towards patient. Precisely these reasons
make the white coat one of the reasons to start studying medicine.
10. Science
universal to the whole world
And the last, but not the least reason is a great
uniformity of medical science. Upon graduating from a medical college in Europe
you can find a job and work in any hospital in South America or anywhere else
in the world (unlike some humanistic sciences). Furthermore, the major part of
medical literature is in English, the most of the medical terms are in Latin.
You will get acquainted with English and Latin in the course of your studies so
that words like vertebra or clavicle will be nothing new neither to you nor to
a doctor on the other side of the world.
By naming these top ten reasons, we have tried to
encompass the most of the points that students of medicine name as their
motivation for studying medicine and which are the main cause for choosing
precisely this vocation. One should also not forget giving up free time which
is essential for successful ending of this college. Just as there are these ten
reasons for, there are also reasons against, but the final decision is for you
to make. Sometimes all it takes is just one reason to make the right choice.
There are several advantages in studying medicine
in Europe. The first is tuition – the price of medical schools in Europe is about twice to four times cheaper than in the US. The second to study
medicine in Europe is the duration of the medical degree. Most European medical
universities offer a 6 year program degree and some offer a 4 year medical
program for those who already hold a bachelor's degree. The third reason
is the medical school requirements – while US medical schools require pre-med course
load and a bachelor degree (essentially making the length of medical studies at
least 8 years in total), European medical schools do not require pre-med or
previous degrees and an applicant could apply to medical school right out of
high school. Students are only required to possess good credits in all subjects
required for a medical degree. The fourth reason to study medicine in Europe is
travel – as a doctor you won't have so much time to travel so why not combine
your studies with the exciting opportunity to live and travel in Europe in such
incredible places as Rome and Prague? Although this may not be a primary
concern when going to study medicine, but we found that many of our students
mentioned this as an amazing experience and reason to study medicine in Europe.
Our guarantee
We officially represent 18 medical universities
across Europe. Our partnering Universities are located in the following
countries: Poland, Netherlands, Romania, Hungary, Georgia and Ukraine. (You can browse
through our web and click on the page “Universities”
to see the various universities). Our recommendations are recognised by these
universities. All you need is to make up your mind to study in Europe and the
rest we shall handle for you.
Higherway Educational Consultant is
always there to serve you!
Here are some of the reasons why studying in Asia may be good for
you.
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Unique destinations for everyone interested in
studying in Asia.
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Obtaining visa into Asian country or gaining
admission into Asian university is easy. No university-specific placement
quotas.
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Simplified application and approval procedures (for
example no TOEFL language proficiency test). Years of experience in securing
transfer credits.
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Close and personal working relationships with all
host universities. We know exactly what our students get for their money.
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Affordability – you pay less than what other
students in Europe pay.
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Quality universities and interesting course choices.
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Excellent international relation.
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Abundance of activities outside the classes (both
academic and extra-curricular).
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Asia is a place for adventure.
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Learning a new language is also fun.
Asia is
the Earth’s largest and most
populous continent, located primarily
in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total
surface area and comprises 30% of its land area [44,579,000 km2(17,212,000 sq mi)].
With approximately 4.3 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current
human population. Asia alone has 49 countries and 5 disputed countries. Like
most of the world, Asia has a high growth rate in the modern era. For instance,
during the 20th century, Asia's population nearly quadrupled, as did the world
population.
The
boundaries of Asia are culturally determined, as there is no clear geographical
separation between it and Europe, which
together form one continuous landmass called Eurasia.
The most commonly accepted boundaries place Asia to the east of the Suez Canal,
the Ural River, and the Ural Mountains,
and south of the Caucasus Mountains (or
the Kuma-Manych Depression) and the Caspian and Black. It is bounded on the east by the Pacific Ocean, on the south by the
Indian Ocean, and on the north by the
Arctic Ocean.
Given
its size and diversity, the concept of Asia – a name dating back to classical antiquity - may actually have more to do with human
geography than physical geography. Asia
varies greatly across and within its regions with
regard to ethnic groups, cultures, environments, economics, historical ties and
government systems.
CLIMATE CHANGE
A survey carried out in 2010 by global risk
analysis firm Maplecroft identified 16 countries that are extremely
vulnerable to climate change. Each nation's vulnerability was calculated using
42 socio, economic and environmental indicators, which identified the likely
climate change impacts during the next 30 years. The Asian countries of Bangladesh,
India, Vietnam, Thailand, Pakistan and Sri Lanka were among the 16
countries facing extreme risk from climate change. Some shifts are already
occurring. For example, in tropical parts of India with a semi-arid climate, the
temperature increased by 0.4 °C between 1901 and 2003. A 2013 study by the International
Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid tropics (ICRISAT) aimed to find
science-based, pro-poor approaches and techniques that would enable Asia's
agricultural systems to cope with climate change, while benefitting poor and
vulnerable farmers. The study's recommendations ranged from improving the use
of climate information in local planning and strengthening weather-based
agro-advisory services, to stimulating diversification of rural household
incomes and providing incentives to farmers to adopt natural resource
conservation measures to enhance forest cover, replenish groundwater and use renewable
energy.
ECONOMY
Asia has the second largest nominal GDP of all
continents, after Europe, but the largest when measured in purchasing power
parity. As of 2011, the largest economies in Asia are China, Japan, India, South
Korea and Indonesia. Based on Global Office Locations 2011, Asia dominated the
office locations with 4 of top 5 were in Asia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo,
Seoul and Shanghai. Around 68 percent of international firms have office in
Hong Kong.
LANGUAGES
Asia is home to several language families and
many language isolates. Most Asian
countries have more than one language that is natively spoken. For instance,
according to Ethnologue, more than 600 languages are spoken in Indonesia, more
than 800 languages spoken in India, and more than 100 are spoken in the Philippines.
China has many languages and dialects in different provinces. However,
English is spoken in these countries and it’s used as the language of the
classroom to teach the English medium of international students. A lot of Asians
especially the younger generation speak English Language.
Asian Universities are ranked among the best universities in
the world, with ‘The University of Tokyo’ placed in
the 23rd position and leading the way among other Asian
Universities. Other Asian universities ranked among the top world universities
include: National University of
Singapore (26th position), The
University of Hong Kong (43rd position), Seoul National University, Korea
(44th position), Peking
University, China (45th position), Tsinghua University, China
(50th position) and a host of other top Asian universities.
For now, Higherway Educational Consultant partners with only three
universities, all located in China. These universities have a wide variety of
faculties including Medicine, Engineering and Social Sciences. They include:
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Central South University
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Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Shenyang Medical University
We already have our students in these universities and they are doing
well.
In the nearest future we hope to expand our scope to other Asian
countries as well.
Higherway Educational Consultants is always there to serve you!
We have put together the tuition fee ranges to guide you consider studying in Georgia. See blow.
UNDERGRADUATE/BACHELOR DEGREE PROGRAMS
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S/N
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COURSES
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DURATION
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FEE PER YEAR
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1
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Medicine
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6 years
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$6000 – First year
$5000 – 2nd year to 6th year
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2
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Dentistry
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5 years
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$4800
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3
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Pharmacy
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4 years
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$4000
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4
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Nursing
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4 years
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$3500
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5
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Business Administration
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4 years
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$4000
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6
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Business Management
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4 years
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$3000
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7
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Marketing
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4 years
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$3000
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8
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Finance
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4 years
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$3000
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9
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Accounting & Audit
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4 years
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$3000
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10
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Tourism
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4 years
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$3000
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11
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International Relations
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4 years
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$3000
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12
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Economics
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4 years
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$3000
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13
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Public Administration
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4 years
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$3000
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14
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Computer Science
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4years
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$3000/$4000
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15
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Industrial Technology
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4 years
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$3000
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16
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Engineering Physics
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4 years
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$3500
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17
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Mechanical Engineering
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4 years
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$3500
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18
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Civil Engineering
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4 years
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$3500
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19
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Electrical Engineering
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4 years
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$3500
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20
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Computer Engineering
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4 years
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$3500
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21
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Biomedical Engineering
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4 years
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$3500
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22
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Metallurgy
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4 years
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$3500
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23
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Architecture & Design
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4 years
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$3500
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24
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Computational Mathematics
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4 years
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$3500
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25
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Chemistry and Biochemistry
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4 years
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$3500
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MASTERS DEGREES (Msc)
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S/N
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COURSES
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DURATION
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FEE PER YR
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1
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Business Administration
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2 years
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$4000
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2
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Business Management
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2 years
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$3000
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3
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Marketing
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2 years
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$3000
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4
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Finance
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2 years
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$3000
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5
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IT Management
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2 years
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$3000
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6
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International relations
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2 years
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$3000
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7
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Comparative Commercial Law
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2 years
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$3000
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8
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Computer Science
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2 years
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$3000
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9
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Architecture & Design
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2 years
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$3500
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10
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Biomedical engineering
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2 years
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$3500
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11
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Water Engineering
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2 years
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$3500
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DOCTORATE DEGREES (PhD)
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S/N
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COURSES
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DURATION
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FEE PER YR
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1
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Business Administration
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3 years
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$3000
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2
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International Relations
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3 years
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$3000
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3
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Computer Sciences
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3 years
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$3000
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4
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Water Engineering
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3 years
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$3500
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5
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Urban development
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3 years
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$3500
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