In the past, when students did a university degree, they tended to study in their own country. Nowadays, they have more opportunity to study abroad. What are the advantages and disadvantages of this development? You should use your own ideas, knowledge and experience and support your arguments with examples and relevant evidence.

These days, students are lucky to have an opportunity to study overseas
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before that was hard to realise.
This
improvement has both pros and cons and in
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I will set out to explain why. On one hand, having a degree in another country is helpful to learn a new language or
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knowledge of a familiar one. Those who are able to speak two or more languages are likely to have better job offers and revenue.
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, if there is a choice between some of the candidates, employees will prefer a person who can speak other languages.
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, those who chose to study abroad are believed to become more mature and independent. That happened due to the necessity of leaving their parents’ house and building up their own lives.
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, children have to learn how to do basic things
such
as washing clothes, cooking dishes or spending money properly.
On the other hand
, having a foreign study experience is not cheap. ,
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graduates or their parents are forced to have credit to make that affordable.
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, in some
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pre-graduate education
also
costs an enormous amount of money so students may already have debts.
Besides
, there is
also
a necessity to have extra money for accommodation, food and other living expenses. By the way, it is always hard to leave your parents and live without them.
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, there is a chance that a student will have low scores and grades due to the stress of missing home. To conclude,
although
having a foreign degree is respectable and ambitious there are always drawbacks
such
as huge expenses and missing family.
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