first and foremost tuition as well asother living expenses are farlesser than other us universitiesprobably the most expensive school to goto in france is hec paris and that costs40000 euros over two years other schoolscost even lesser they can range from 15000 to 35 000 for the entire program aswell there are even public universitiesthat are completely free andalso teach in english and moreover athec for example we’re not even obligatedto spendthousands of euros every year on booksjust like they doin u.s universities because ourprofessors provide us most of thematerial that we require and the libraryhas the restthis is much much lesser than the 50 to60 000you spend every year at a us universityliving expenses in paris also averagearound 1 000 euros a month and they canbe much lower too of course it alldepends on your living standardbut i’ve heard and seen people live withlike 600 to 800 euros a month as well ifyou want to go really really cheap andthis includes your rent your food yourgroceries your transport every singlethingthe costs are also definitely helped bythe government support that you get overhere healthcare for example is 70covered by the government and for therest 30you can take out an insurance whichcosts around 200 euros for a yearthe government also provides this thingcalled caf which is a rental subsidythat they offer to all studentsthe second pro of studying in france isthat you can stay back here for one oreven two years if you’re indianafter your graduation to look for a jobonce you graduate you can convert yourstudent visa into a visa called the apsand this is valid for one yearand on this visa you can work full timefor six months or part time for 12monthsto support yourself while you look for ajob which is related to your field ifyou’re indian you can even renew thisaps for an additional one you’re givingyou a total of two years aftergraduationto look for a job the third pro is thatthere’s no lottery for a work visaunlike the h-1b program in the u.sgetting a work visa in france does notinvolve a lottery if you’ve got a jobwith a full-time permanent contractwhile you’re on your apsyou can convert that to a work visawithout any problem or without anyfurthercomplications and this work visa isvalid for four years and it’s evenrenewablethe fourth point is that you can applyfor citizenship or permanent residencyafter only two years after graduationif you studied a master’s program infrance you hold a full-time job contractyou can speak frenchat a b1 level and you can prove thatyou’ve sufficiently integrated into thesocietyof course getting citizenship is a lotmore complicated than this but you’reeligible to apply for it after two yearsyou can even choose to apply for eithercitizenship or permanent residency andonce you’ve got either of those you canstay here for as long as you wantin general whether you’re a studentwhether you’re on a work visa or you’vegot permanent residency or citizenshiplife in france from a visa perspectiveis a lot more stable and secure ascompared to other countries like theunited statesin the us on the other hand after yougraduate you have about three months tolook for a joband then after that if you’re in a stemcourse you can stay back for three yearsworking on that job and during that timeif you don’t get an h1bwhich is a lottery by the way so nomatter how good you are you can stillnot get itif you don’t get an h-1b you’ll have togo back home or to a different countrythe fifth point is that there are a tonof beautiful places close byand you don’t need another visa totravel to most of themfrance is in europe and you know whatelse is in europe germanyspain the netherlands italy denmarkother scandinavian countries iceland andtons of other places that are sobeautifuland are part of the schengen region soyou don’t need any other visaexcept for your french student visa totravel to any of those placesand usually there are low cost buses oreven flights that don’t cost a lot ofmoney to go to these places you can stayat backpack or hostels and it doesn’thave to cost a lot of money to explorean entire continent so when you’restarting in france you can use yourweekends you can use your study breaksto go to all these places and explorethe regionthe sixth point is that you get to learna new language and a new cultureover the last two years even though iwas in the us for half a yeari think i’ve definitely reached a pointwhere i can read and i can write and ican have a basic conversation aboutmedium complexity topics in frenchand according to my french friends myfrench is improving on a weekly basisby being in france and learning frenchi’ve become knowledgeable about a lotmore thingsi’ve become aware and knowledgeableabout a whole new culture a whole newway of living life different lifephilosophiesall kinds of new art and culture ingeneral my worldview has improvedtremendously since i got hereit also really helps that when you’re inan international city like paris you canmake friends who are not just french butalso from all over the world and thisincreases your worldview even beyondfrench culturealright next let’s speak about some ofthe not so good things the cons ofstudying in francethe first one is that you have to learna new language all that i just saidabout learning a new language andculture is alsoa con it’s really not easy to manageacademics job hunting socializing andnetworkingand then also navigating in a new placewhere you don’t speak the language atall along with learning the language inthe first placenot to mention a lot of theopportunities that i came across when iwas at hcc and generally in paristhey require you to speak french and itjust feels a bit bad to have to miss outon a lot of themhowever i can say that now i’m slowlygetting there where i can take advantageof those opportunitieswhen i moved to los angeles last year iwas living and working in a fullyenglish-speaking environmentand i realized that everything was somuch easier socializing and makingfriendsfinding and taking advantage of all theopportunities navigating the bureaucracyand just generally living lifeand it also just felt a lot more naturaland comfortable for me since english ismy first languageback in france especially at thebeginning it can be quite challengingand it can be really stressful to be ina place where you don’t speak thelanguage very well however now after twoyears of learning and improving mylanguage abilitiesi don’t find it as hard as i used tothat being said i think living in anenglish-speaking environmentis just generally a lot more ideal thesecond con of staying in france is thatfinding a job or an internship can be alot more challenging than you wouldexpect because of the languageconstraint and evengenerally it becomes quite hard to finda job or an internship in france sowhile it might be really easy to get awork visa once you’ve found a jobgetting that job in the first place canbe quite challenging that being saidit’s definitely not impossible if youattend a top school your alumni networkwill be amazing and that woulddefinitely help you get a job in franceand moreover in france even right nowthere are a lot of companies big andsmall who are looking for talent that isfluent in english because a lot ofpeople here don’t speak english thatwell and as companies are becoming moreand more internationalthe requirement for english speakingprofessionals is just increasingand if you spend your time wisely you’llbe able to improve your french to alevel that you can even find a job infrenchduring the time that you’re studyinghere it’s definitely very hard but it’snot impossibleand the payoff is that once you do finda job you can get a work visa withoutany extra hassle and you can just stayhere for as long as you want to anotherdisadvantage that i want to mentionabout studying in france is that theopportunities that you get here aftergraduatingare probably not as lucrative andextremely well-payingas they would be in the u.s for examplebut you do also have to consider thatthe cost of living in france is alsomuch lower than it is in california orin new yorkand there are plenty of other advantageslike having a stable life and no visalottery to make up for thatthe third main con of living andstudying in france is that life overhere can sometimes just generally be abitinconvenient supermarkets for examplethey close very early they close atabout 8 30 to 9 pm on weekdaysand on sundays most supermarkets alsojust close at 1pmyou sometimes need to take anappointment weeks in advance to get ahaircut that’s actually why i startedcutting my own hairor even to get your cycle repaired yourequire an appointment and that can takea lot of timefinding an apartment in paris can be acomplete paina process that takes sometimes up to twoor three months even for french peoplelet alone internationals the bureaucracycan be extremely slow and bank accountscan be a complete pain to deal withthe list goes on and on basically lifeis sometimesquite inconvenient to you and that’sespecially if you’re used to havingeverything done for you back in indiaor if you’re from the us whereeverything is open 24 7.in france you have a really really goodwork-life balancebut everybody else around you also has areally good work-life balance so sothat’s what leads to you know thingsclosing early and things not opening onsundays and things moving a bit slowerand so onall right in this section i’m going toanswer some of the questions that youguys asked me in the comments on myprevious videosthe first one is lsb or hec if i had togo back and choose betweenlondon school of business and sgc pariswhat would i choosehonestly for me i would still pick hecparis the lsb program is just one yearlong and the hec program is three yearsand i really wanted to do a program thatismuch longer than one year moreover ithink the stay back prospects in franceare just a lot better than in the ukthe second question is how would oneoffset a bad gpa or a backlog in theirundergrad actually a lot of peoplemessage measking me about this they’ve got abacklog in that undergrad how would thislook on that application they’ve got abad gpa how would that look so basicallylike i mentioned in one of my previousvideos about the three things that youneed to get into htc parisyou can offset a bad undergrad academicrecord to a great extent by getting anamazing gmat score and when i sayamazing i mean something likeif you get like 740 750 760 70 somethinglike thatthat can really really greatly offsetyour bad undergrad record i mean it’snot a guarantee that you’d get in i meanhonestly this is something that you knowno one can really tell youbut my advice here would basically justbe to just honestly you can’t really doanything about your undergrad record ifyou’ve already got a backlog or a badgpayou can’t really do anything about thatright now what you can do is improveyour profile as much as you can whetherthat through your gmator whether that’s through otherextracurriculars and other things andwhatnotthe third question is from catherine andsheasks am i too old if i’m 27 years oldand i’m joining the specialized master’sprogramabsolutely not i actually know a lot ofpeople who are 2627 even 28 who are at hcc in the mim andthe msc program and what really mattersis how much work experience you have sofor the mim as well as the mscs you needto have fewer than two years of workexperience and and yeah you’lldefinitely fit just right in at hccalright everything being said there aredefinitely pros and cons of livinganywhere in the world and france is noexception i for onereally really love living here i reallyvalue the security and the stabilitythat i getby not having to worry about getting awork visa by not having to worry about avisa lottery and all of that myhealthcare costs are taken care of andin general i can fully focus ondeveloping myself and working to find agood job that i likeparis is also a very beautiful place tolive in and i’ll never say no to frenchwine french breadcakes and desserts and also the amazingart culture and the museums over here
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