Masters abroad, who has done it?

craptakular

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Hi,

My job searching has been extremely difficult the last 6 months, applied to countless jobs, heard back from 25% ish, 3 interviews, 0 offers of employment :/

Instead of sitting in my pants on OcUK I am looking into masters courses. I am not the brain of Britian and will find a masters extremely challanging, but given my current situation. I must succeed!!

I like on the coast, on the Suffolk/Norfolk boarder. I went to Uni of East Anglia, staying at my parents. I had a job in environmental planning for 4 years, still lived at home.

I am not keen on most British cities and ones that do appeal I can simply not afford the living expenses.

I looked at a Masters in New Zealand but it looks like its $30,000 NZ per annum :eek:, which if thats right it rules it out :/

It then suddenly dawned me that I can do it in europe! As a european citizen it should be the same costs as Britian, maybe cheaper?

I have read up on a few universities from the Netherlands and it appears all classes and projects are done in english, so that is cool.

Why the Netherlands? Well, as part of the masters you do an internship, which hopefully will give me contacts in europe for future employment.

My ultimate aim in life is to live in New zealand, find a wife, kids etc etc... atm I'm 27 living in my parents spare room, jobless, all my friends have moved away pretty much. I have no one to go out with on the weekend anymore, life really sucks for atm :p

I need to break off and start my life.

Feel free to get the jesus.jpg and "cool story bro" posts out of the way early doors :D
 
It looks like you have nothing to lose. What courses are you looking at? What are the potential job prospects once you have completed it?
Im not the brain of britain either and i started a masters last year and im doing fairly well at the moment.
 
I have an Earth Science degree with 4 years work experience with environmental planning.

I'm looking at masters involving Geogrpahical Information Systems, remote sensing and modelling.

My theory is there shouldn't be a lot of maths or geophysics in it, I struggled with these as an undergrade which landed me a 2:2 instead of a 2:1.

As for job prospects during my work experience I used GIS a lot and consultants where paid millions to develop models for surface and grounwater, I understand that these skills should be useful in local government, consultancies, research etc etc.

I do need to research the job prospects more, but as I understand it, they are there. Just hope that the financial world improves in 3 years time, when I have got my masters, should straigtforward to find a job somewhere in the world, with 2 degrees and 4 years work experience.
 
I think D.P. is doing a masters or possibly a phD abroad (Switzerland if memory serves) so he might have some useful advice for you.

I've got a mate who did a masters in Finland (he's Canadian) and thoroughly enjoyed most of his time there, not too sure on how the funding situation worked out for him without checking though.
 
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