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Today I'm going to tell you about American Universities and colleges

where you can study for free

So if you're interested in this topic, continue watching this video.

The first thing I want to tell you

there is no free education in the United States.

Every single university will require you to pay something

They would have tuition and fee section

on their website

and they'd tell you that

tution fee is for example 23000$ a year

or if we're talking about a top university

it goes up to 200 000$

American education system is good that they provide a lot of scholarships

assistanships

to talented students

and it's possible to study for free

This happened to me when I got my

full assitanship for MBA

I got it from the University of Florida

They provided me with assitanship that helped me cover

tuition fees

and housing and everything

But I didn't take that offer

and I decided to run my startup

This is a different story

If you subscribed, you probably know this story

Today I want to share the names of those universities

that provided financial aid

Also I wanted to mention

that there are certain profiles of students

and it's really hard for these profiles to get financial aid

because financial aid is provided for special students

especially if we're talking about mid-level universities

they're really interested to get really talented

really bright students

in order to increase their ranking

because every single nationality will effect their profile

for example, the university wouldn't want to have

hundred thousand Chinese students

and 2 Russians

or 2 Indians.

This is why they try to diversify their portfolio

and make the nationality mix

as outstanding as possible

because as I said

this affects their ranking

and the higher their rank,

the more aid they get from the state

the more aid they get from their donors

like students who already graduated from the college

and got a great job

and they're donating to the university

and for example

last year United States welcomed

1 million international students

and those were mostly Indians and Chinese

if you're not from those countries

you have a benefit

For example, if you're girl from Kazakhstan

or you're a girl from Uruguay

you would be underepresented

and every university would want to have a female

because you know in America there's this things about

equality and they'll want to have 50% of males

50% females

They want to have people from every single country in the world

not from just China and India

So you have a slightly better chance of getting in

and getting financial aid

On the other hand

if you're an Indian male with background in IT

they'll be a bit tougher

so your test results like TOEFL, GMAT, GRE

have to be really high

And talking about financial aid

first group of universities are universities

first league

They're Stanford,

Harvard, you know

all of the names that ring a bell

in every single person's head

and they're really high ranked

and you'd get great job offers

and these universities don't consider your finacial abilities

when accepting you

That happens is

you apply to Stanford

you get accepted to Stanford

and then Stanford asks you

How much does your family make

per year

if this nymber is below 65000$

then Stanford is going to say "hey,

we're going to provide financial aid".

If that's above 65000 a year

they' d probably tell you

you're able to sponsor education yourself

this is how it works with high universities

they don't do merit based scholarship

assistanship. I don't

say "they normally wouldn't do them

They normally do financial based scholarships and assistanships

So they would only consider your financial needs

not your mental abilities

because if you were able to get into Stanford

MIT, Harvard

There's no doubt that you're really talented

really hard working

There' s also another level of universities

that don't really ring a bell

but which are also very good

and really good in rankings

but they would consider your application

for different kinds of financial aid

after assessing your mental abilities

your achievements

your work experience

if we're talking about universities like University of Chicago

University of Florida,

University of Illinois

They'd give financial aid to best of the best

So they have a lot of opportunities

and those are scholarships

if you get a scholarship

you don't really owe

you just get the money

and start studying

but if you're getting an assistanship

that means you have to work 10 hours per week

you'd be either helping

a teacher

during the lectures

or doing some administrative work

like filling in applications

or checking applications from other international students

but assistanship means you're doing something for a university

they're pretty generous

they would also cover your tuition fees

and give you money for living

and for accommodation

So these colleges

would asses if you're the best of the best

and only the best of the best would get financial aid

So when applying

I would recommend you to

pay attention to

what kind of financial aid the university provides

if we're talking about not Stanford, Harvard

like Yvy league universities

We're talking about

like University of Florida

michigan state university

University of Chicago

make sure that your application is brilliant

Also it's important to notice that

PhD students

get funded in 90% of the cases

If you're applying for PhD program

No matter what university you're applying to

you'd get all your costs covered

by the University

because when you're doing your PhD

it means you can give something back

to the University

and you can do some work

and University can pay you back

When we're talking about Master's students

Yes, it's possible to get financial aid

but I can't say that 90% of the students are funded

but it's possible

and there are a lot of opportunities for graduate studies

When we're talking about undergraduate studies

Bachelor's programs

This is a bit tough

My company helps people to get into

American Universities

and we have a couple of cases

when student got assistanship

during her Bachelor's studies

which is really rare

because when you're a bachelor

studentm you just got out of school

you don't know how academics work

and it's unfair to make you work

10 hours per week

in addition to studying

assistanship is not really common for bachelors

but scholarships are the most common type of financial aid

for Bachelor programs

we have a student who got

full scholarship to study in Yale

She was really brilliant

I'd say 5-10% of students get funded

you have to be really outstanding

to get funded for your Bachelor

There are also colleges

who provide financial aid for bachelors

everybody

One of the colleges is Berea College

They're actually state

tuition fee is 23000$ a year

They provide assistanship to every single student

and you end up paying 1000$ in tuition fees

Almost free

There are plenty of those colleges

make sure if you've been to the US

on Work and Travel program

if you had any difficulties entering US

If you had visa refusals

or if you been deported

I hope you haven't been deported

if you had any problems crossing borders with the States

it might be possible to get your visa refused

if you're going to almost free colleges

If you're accepted to Stanford and Harvard

I hope there won't be any problems

I'm not visa immigration specialist

I'm just talking about cases that we had

Make sure you haven't had any problems with visas

if you're getting into that college which provides

financial aid to everyone

I also wanted to give you some numbers

how much universities actually provide

Berea college around 22000$

for everybody

University of Chicago 48 000$

and tuition fee is around 45 000

they partly cover you accommodation

cost and there are plenty of students who

get all the costs covered

it's worth trying to get to the University of Chicago

Yale provides 55 000$

per year

Our student got 60 000 per year

she got her accommodation covered

Duke University would provide

53 000 $ per year

The best thing is to ask a university

how much they provide

They'd also have this information of the website

So guys

let me know if you have any questions

about that please

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every single question

if you need help with getting

into American Universities

I'd be more than ready to help you

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some advice

on how to choose a university

or maybe access your chances of getting financial aid

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