Problems Faced by International Students

Through these pictures, I will track each new experience and skill that I gain. Later, these pictures will go up on my university’s study abroad blog. Along with the blog post, I will create an informational flyer explaining the steps I took in order to be able to study abroad. On the flyer, I will include a list of available scholarships, resources for searching for a study abroad program, tips on choosing a study abroad program, and additional resources to find funding. To ensure that my information is as thorough and accurate as possible, I will coordinate with my university’s study abroad office. My experience in dealing with the study abroad office was overwhelmingly positive. The staff was very well-informed and supportive of my goals and this will be reflected in the

Living and studying in another country has never been easy for everyone, and it happens to me too. There are many things for me to adapt to, such as language, culture, food, lifestyle…

The need for higher education has prompted many students to seek further studies in international colleges outside their countries and Australia has become an academic hub for international students who mostly come from developing nations in Asia and Africa. The students, once they secure a place in this schools, they are subjected to a new environment which comes with different challenges. International students in Australia have become an integral part of the society both social and economical. However the students face a myriad of challenges before fully adopting to the new learning culture. In

With an increase in student mobility around the world, there are many positive outcomes related to learning a different set of education from their home country and obtaining intercultural experiences with a global mindset. On the other hand, students may struggle with different challenges, which they may have unexpected to encounter.

International students experience various social, cultural, psychological and behavioral challenges throughout their tertiary study. Student sojourners primarily struggle with social integration and educational expectations, ‘resulting from the loss of well-known cultural signs and symbols, causing individuals to experience anxiety, frustration and helplessness’ (Oberg 1960). These symptoms are recognised collectively as results of ‘culture shock’.

Studying abroad is important to me for a multitude of reasons. The most pressing of which is,

Why does international students tend to group themselves away from American students? What are some possible aspects that cause difficulties for international students to make American friends? In Karin Fischer’s article, she used the online questionnaire that professor Elisabeth Gareis conducted on international students in America to answer those questions proposed above. This survey’s result claims that cultural and regional differences affect international students to have difficulties when trying to make American friends. This research was conducted on various non-American students with different genders, cultural backgrounds and circumstances. Not even half of the participants responded that they have a good friendship with American students. Karin argues that students’ home region, university’s location and language differences took critical roles which made a barrier between international

Most international students happen to have some major and minor struggles when they come to the USA. People from different countries usually have different background, different thoughts, different culture. Therefore, international students who come to the USA, tend to struggle with some problems. The three most important challenges international students face can be categorized into three groups: emotional challenges such as culture shock and homesick, social challenges, and academic challenges.

When international students study for the first time at a university in the United States, the first challenge almost is study. For instance, students’ communication and writing skills, the grades in each class and so on. When the student decided to study abroad, parents place great hopes on the students. Almost international students were having a bit afraid to talk with native speaker, when they first time at the university in the United States. Also, international students could not write really like the native students writing. At the same time, students must want to get a good grade in each class, but different countries have different education system.

Maureen Andrade article, “International students face academic and social transition issues in their first year of university” (P.135), so, students will face hard times at the beginning because they came from different countries which have different traditions and believes so, they will need time to adjust with the new environment depends on the student’s personality if he or she is extroverted or introverted. Accordingly, social adjustment issues present an obstacle for the international student; they face new life style, and sometimes the social support they get is less than what the domestic students get. Language proficiency can be the biggest obstacle for the international students, sometimes they feel shy speaking to native speakers because

However, the change from home to college can be difficult for international students (Mesidor & Sly, 2016). While some international students find it easy to adjust to the transition, others international students find it challenging to adjust to the transition (Mesidor & Sly, 2016). Studies show that international students experience many challenges as a result of language and cultural barriers, academic difficulties, financial difficulties, medical issues, housing concerns, food differences, alienation, homesickness, lack of social support system, racial discrimination, and cross-cultural loss) (Akanwa, 2015; Guzman et al., 2015; Mesidor & Sly, 2016; Sherry et al., 2010; Smith & Khawaja, 2011; Tung, 2011; Zhang & Goodson, 2010). According to Prieto-Welch (2016), international students as a group are regarded as a main minority population in campuses

To study in the UK is an excitement to every student. Being a student in the UK has enough challenges especially when you may want to complicate things like falling ill and not having a national insurance or not even registering with the national health insurance scheme. It is indeed an interesting thing to study in the UK, but everything has

Wilkins, Stephen. Huisman, Jeroen. (2011). International student destination choice: the influence of home campus experience on the decision to consider branch campuses. Journal of Marketing for Higher Education, 21(1), 61-83. doi:

International students face many different challenges when studying abroad. This is due to many factors. First, they are living in a country very far away from their own. The country they are studying at has a very different way of life than theirs. Further more, the laws in that country are much different than the laws in their own country. Due to that they face a lot of problems trying to adapt to this new culture. Me personally as an international student in the US studying at ASU, have faced three particularly difficult challenges that I was able to overcome through time. In this essay I will explain how international students can overcome tough challenges and situations.

With the newly elected Conservative government planning on tightening restrictions on foreign students studying in the UK, the populace must be informed as to the extent of the damage inflict on the economy by foreign students and foreign graduates who stay in the economy and they must also be well informed as to the short and long-term implications of policy change affecting educational temporary migration as a party of the overall moving structure that is the United Kingdom.