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World Study Destinations

STUDYING abroad has become more of a practical choice instead of a dream fulfilment. This emergence of foreign education is due to many reasons such as wider course range, advanced research or study support facilities, better environment etc. Since many students in Bangladesh nowadays are opting for a foreign degree, information on popular study destinations and universities would be of benefit to aspiring students. Therefore, a regular study overview based on different countries and their best universities will be featured, which will be helpful in your decision making process.

Australia is a widely preferred study destination. The weather is sunny and warm, and it hosts world class universities ranked among the world's top hundred. Affordability, course range, teaching quality, research facilities, extra -curricular activities etc. are just few of the reasons why Australia is a good choice. Australian National University is one such university, which is ranked 54th or 55th by a few college guides based on their reputation, admission criteria, and competitiveness. Australian National Universities, shortly known as ANU, is renowned for both its undergraduate and postgraduate courses. It is one of the world's foremost research oriented university. The university's policy of searching out local and international talents by means of strict admission criteria ensures that brilliant graduates emerge and contribute to the society they live in. ANU is ranked as the top 17th university for students wishing to study Arts & Humanities, Engineering & IT, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences.

Originally located adjacent to the city centre of Canberra, the university also has smaller campuses in New South Wales, Darwin, and New South Wales' South Coast. A bachelors degree tuition fees ranges from AUS$ 10-13,000 for business and arts subjects and AUS$ 11-16,500 for science and engineering courses per year. ANU teachers are highly qualified with a majority of them being members of the Royal Society, the world's oldest scientific academy. It currently has 13,487 students, representing 94 countries. The library is enormous with more than two million volumes of books consisting of any subjects conceivable.

ANU has upheld its principle of distinction and sophistication by providing quality education and building its graduates with intrinsic acumen. Many consider it to be the top most choice among all Australian universities. The course fees can be pricey, to put it correctly it is quiet expensive. Even though they say that money can't buy everything, in this case money is bringing in a degree worth a million bucks (quiet literally). However, ANU has built and sustained its impeccable reputation, and the choice to attend it lies with the individual.

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