What benefits can one gain when one studies abroad?

• your personality will receive extra fuel and inspiration for full development

• you will get a much better understanding of the world and your place in it

• you will gain additional viewpoints from outside your culture which may help you master life better

• you may become fluent in your chosen field in an important, foreign language

• you may receive a better education than at home

• you will always be the person with the valuable outside perspective in working life

• you will learn how to live and manage life by yourself

• you will create a foreign network

I have studied in the US, Canada, Britain, New Zealand, Germany, France, China, India, and Sweden. I see very clearly how that benefitted me.

You are just not the same little person you used to be afterwards.

I am not saying it turns you into Superman. But you will have a lower pulse, and see things in a different light.

Chris Ebbert, Innovation Advisor and Industrial Design Lecturer

Source: Quora Digest