On 9/11/06, Marius Schebella marius.schebella@chello.at wrote:
I think for Austria it is EUR 726,72 per semester for students from non EU contries (with exceptions - for nationalities from poor countries it is free). things are changing slightly every year.
Maybe I should wait a few years, when the US will be a poor country.
for art universities there is a restriction to a certain number of study places, which means you have to make an entrance examination. most students contact their major professor before. and your undergrad will probably not be accepted, because Austria has no real undergrad studies like B.A., you mostly finish with a magister (M.A. equiv.). this may also change in the future and is already now changing. all this is very different to GB and US, because there you can
There must be some way. I've been unbearably frustrated by my teachers' unwillingness to pursue really challenging subjects, and I've been told a bunch of times I'm pursuing graduate-level things. Can it be that the best course of action for a very intelligent and driven computer music student is to drop out of school and educate himself online? If not, I must find a program that will accept me. It would be irrational to continue an expensive education in "the basics" when I've been dying for more advanced studies for years. A thousand unchallenging things with short deadlines are not the same as a few challenging things...
-Chuckk