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May 16, 2025
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now today we're going to see the cost of
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living in Switzerland for international
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students so basically we have um we have
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guides based on this all right um like
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cost of studying we have other for
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others as well I I made a couple of
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videos about this and I'm trying to find
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how interested you are because I think
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it's a very important topic if you want
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to study um abroad but for like a couple
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of videos I made I didn't think you that
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interested so this is for Switzerland
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Switzerland of course is one of the most
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expensive places one of the most like it
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is literally the most expensive country
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in the world so like these will be the
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most expensive Places You'll Find in
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anywhere but of course um the
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correspondingly the um quality of
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education is very high so you can see
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first first of all as a like non student
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normal person uh how much you would need
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to uh stay in Switzerland you can find
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it here uh nambo has a really good cost
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of living index which is actually kind
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of a map so basically when you look at
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this right uh you'll see that uh we have
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greens and reds and green means it's uh
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affordable and red means more uh
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expensive so as you can see the
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Switzerland is pretty much comp like it
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is the highest levels you will find so
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here in the numbers
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uh basically New York is 100 like it's
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the basis for um their estimations and
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as you can see Switzerland like every
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city they have is pretty much over a 100
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so like these are all more expensive
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than um New York for example zurri I
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believe is the most expensive city uh or
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what I think like maybe second so you
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will see you like you will have you will
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need about like $1,600
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$1,700 um a month that is without rent
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and rent is even more expensive it's
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like about $2,000 but now um this is
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like this is the estimation of living
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costs for a normal person non- student
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person uh now we'll see I've went out
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and seen a couple of like tried to find
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a couple of universities and their
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estimations for how much a student would
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need to study in Switzerland uh so we're
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going to see those in a second but first
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um Aman what would you want to say about
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like uh in general studying in
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Switzerland and uh living costs uh or
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studying cost in
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Switzerland um yeah so studying costs
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are never the issue uh they are quite
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affordable they're probably as
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affordable as any country in Europe um
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you would have to pay around € 1,500 EUR
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per year
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which is not much at all in the grand
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scheme of things if you compare it to
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any other country it's pretty much free
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I know that there are a lot of people
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who can't afford that but it's it's
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still uh quite
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cheap uh the the the the whole thing is
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about the cost of living because
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everything is so expensive starting from
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Brand to the most basic things I have
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seen a lot of American people are quite
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affluent they have the money but they
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complain about how expensive it is to
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visit or live in
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Switzerland um I think the estimation on
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nambo is quite correct uh without rent
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and I think if you factor in health
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insurance for students uh the cost of uh
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tuition per semester
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and the cost of living in general you
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would it would amount to about two to
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3,000 Euros or uh switch Swiss Franks
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per month um so if you want to study in
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Switzerland I think a few years ago uh
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the requirement was an account that has
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at least 20,000 Swiss Franks before you
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can apply so you would need to approve a
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funds amount to
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20,000 Swiss Franks uh per year in order
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to attend a university uh in Switzerland
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another point
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to uh clarify is that finding a
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part-time job is not going to be easy uh
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especially for international students
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you would really need uh a European
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passport in order to get a job and if
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you
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do um you would actually be or need to
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be the kind of person who can balance
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between School uh social life and work
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and you would have no time at all um the
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work or the hourly rate is really good
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so you'd be paid around 20 Swiss Franks
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per hour um and you can if you can work
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during the weekends you can probably
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cover your rent uh through part-time
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work if you can find any um other than
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that you you still need the funds you
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with part-time work I would say you'd
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still need about
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15,000 a year to survive in
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Switzerland yeah um thank you very much
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I can see that for some reason like my
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page like this page isn't visible on Tik
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Tok I'm not sure why like there isn't
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any um um but there isn't a problem that
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I can see it just decided to
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not not show it
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basically let me try it once
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more then I I'm going to have to move
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on
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um yeah no maybe we'll come back
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basically yeah I don't know what what
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else to say so yes thank you very much
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aan as you said it's a very very
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expensive place now normally I wouldn't
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really be interested in making like
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talking about like cost of living here
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anyway uh but like it turns out that
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that's like one of the most popular uh
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topics like countries uh in our um
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YouTube um content like a lot of people
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are interested are watching videos are
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asking questions etc etc um so yeah now
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as you said like it it will take a lot
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of money but uh now we're going to see a
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couple of estimations now first of all
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as Aman said uh studying costs are
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pretty much negligible uh when compared
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to uh like how much you're going to have
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to pay for just living there usually uh
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the like the biggest issue will be like
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accommodation because rents are
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extremely high in Switzerland even like
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even people living there okay are we
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even live on Tik Tok at this point I
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don't think we are
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um okay we'll see anyway so uh even
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people who are living there working
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there and Etc like their entire life is
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there even they have a lot of like a lot
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of issues being able to afford uh um
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accommodation um but like studying cost
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tuition fees as you can see are very
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very affordable now let's see
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actually for example zui studying in
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Zuri right now let me show you uh so
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this is the cost of living uh estimation
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for uh ETA jury um one of the best
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universities you will find like one of
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the main universities you'll find in
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Switzerland so as you can see tuition
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fee this is per
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semester um keep in mind so this is
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individual study costs which um per
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month is about like
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400 uh Swiss Franks and by the way a
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Swiss frank is is basically
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1.1 um dollar so like this like 400 uh
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Swiss ranks will be about
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$440 keep keep that in mind and then you
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have your individual costs uh like rent
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uh which will be about like
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900 uh or something like a th000 which
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also like this room including heat etc
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etc now some universities estimate this
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a little lower we're going to see um but
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like I think this this is probably maybe
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a share Department uh like I think about
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a th000 Swiss Franks Franks is just like
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a share department or maybe
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accommodation in the University um meals
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like basically grocery groceries is
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about like 600 um I've seen this like
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something between 400 to up to 1,000
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Swiss Franks you have public transport
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health insurance health insurance can be
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quite um a burden here to and then your
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for your individual
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expenses uh it's just 140 and it comes
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up to uh 1,800 Swiss Franks and when you
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add the um studying costs like this is
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this and this of course this is divided
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by six because it's per semester so it's
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about like as U Aman said it's about
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2,000 Swiss Franks or it would be about
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I think
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$2300 um every month
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and for every single year you'll be
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paying about like
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207 28,000 or maybe
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$229,000 um which is extremely high that
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is true um without any without any um
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scholarships that's right but it ALS it
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is also less than pretty much the lowest
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um tuition fee you will find in United
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States basically uh yeah okay there
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there are some like there are very very
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very few um tuition fees that you will
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find in the United States lower than
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$30,000 uh but again this is like one of
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the best universities you'll find in
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Switzerland so I think in that sense
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this is like without any scholarships
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without anything without any financial
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aid so yeah it is very
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expensive um but again like when
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compared to how much tuition fee you
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would have to pay in United States um it
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is like it doesn't look that insanely
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expensive Aman correct me if I'm
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wrong no no you're right you're right I
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mean obviously like tuition fee is seen
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in the United States as a like a like a
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cost of having high education higher
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education and there are way more there
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are way more scholarships that you will
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find in the United States than you will
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find in Switzerland of course uh but
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like if you can not have any scholarship
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um like it's not as still not not as
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expensive as the United States tuition
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fees and also there you'll have to pay
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for your living costs too which will not
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be this high but still so this is this
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was eth Zurich and as you can see it's
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about like $2,000 2,000 Swiss Franks per
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month which is like what our guide has
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um
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estimated and then we have Geneva so
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hang on let me actually see
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we have also one
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for an estimation for
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Geneva right so this is um Geneva
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Graduate
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Institute this is like one of the in its
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own um area which I I believe is
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international relations it is one of the
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best universities High institutions that
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you will find like this institute um
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kind of like its alumni includes people
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like um General Secretary of United
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Nations like there are there are very
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there is a very close tie between uh
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Geneva and like International
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organizations NGS etc etc so it's like
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one of the top universities you could go
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uh for uh this type of education so as
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you can see we have the tuition fees uh
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which is very very affordable like 1,
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3,000 s Franks a couple of thousand
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again as Aman said can be affordable for
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still a lot of people but when compared
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to most universities they are very very
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very um reasonable numbers so these are
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the costs these are like the tuitions
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ETC um and then we have like a guide on
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who is a Swiss resident and then we have
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uh we have living costs like their
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estimation you can click on here monthly
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budget estimate to see as you can see so
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like their um estimation for rent is a
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little bit more affordable compared to
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Zuri uh monthly rental charges very
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widely in Geneva both in private
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accommodation and student residencies uh
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so Graduate Institute student house so
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by the way let me actually can I do
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that um hang
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on never mind uh I wanted to show you
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like the university and where it is like
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it's just by the lake uh so like that
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would be where you would
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uh stay so it's about like
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750 Franks uh like if you want to St if
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you want to stay in a studio apartment
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it's about like 1,200 Franks and yeah so
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we have food pretty much the same as you
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can see it's a little cheaper here
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public transport health insurance um
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again as you can see public sorry health
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insurance can be from 60 to 400 Swiss
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Franks so it kind of ranges and mobile
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phone Etc so um as you can see this
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is um about like 1,400 1500 Swiss Franks
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uh and like two up to
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3,000 and again their yearly estimation
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is about
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18,000 Swiss Franks which would which
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would be less than $20,000 again it is
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very expensive but like if you are going
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to this University this institute uh
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like it will be pretty much the best
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education you will be able to get pretty
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much anywhere uh but also like the
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connections you will have here uh will
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be just like top profile I could say so
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yeah Geneva is a little less um
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expensive than uh Zurich and then I
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think we had one more okay uh so this
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was uh
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Geneva so for loan um it's about like
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the
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our guide kind of estimates about
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2,500 so we have call po technique
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Federal Dean um I don't think let's see
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as you can see tuitions are still very
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affordable we have some um
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scholarships some
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fundings um for example let me see let's
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see this one right if we go to the
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universities page for the scholarship
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can we
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get
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um like a budget
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estimation directly from the
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University no I don't think so anyway so
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yeah for um for loanne it's about like
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20 uh 2500 and then we also have for one
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for Basil basle uh let me see that too
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hi there uh Kuku Welcome to our live
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stream so this is another one University
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of Basel uh one of like the uh main
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universities here in
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Switzerland as you can see tuition fees
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are less than um
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$2,000 right so they have some they have
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some full funding scholarships as well
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for PhD
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positions and again if you have any
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questions by the way you can just leave
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them here as you can see H answers every
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single question question and then we
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have another living cost estimation for
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this University I think the only one I
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couldn't find was uh
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loan so this is for Basel basically as
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you can see University of Basel uh we
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have semester fees education cost
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accommodation again so accommodation
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here seems to be more affordable even
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more affordable like 600 uh we have
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food again more affordable uh Healthcare
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transport a little bit more than other
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places and then we have like both
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Leisure and additional costs so it's
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about like
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2,000 um but like I think some of these
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are a little bit more uh than like what
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they need to be like for example we have
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Leisure and additional costs um so yeah
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I think like yearly this would still be
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about 20 something between 20 to 25,000
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Swiss Franks which would would still be
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um below $30,000 of course like if you
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have anyone if you have someone there
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that you can stay with um yeah it will
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considerably uh reduce your living costs
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Social Services team is available to
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explain and and offer advice on any
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issues regarding financing grants and
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scholarships I would um really like I
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would absolutely uh take them up on that
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so we have also this link here so yeah
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mainly you'll be looking at something
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like um I'd say 20,000 to maybe a little
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more than
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$30,000 per year which is a very very
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um considerable sum of money um but
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again studying in Switzerland like these
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universities will give you some of the
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best education you will find and it is
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still not as expensive as you will get
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in some American universities
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uh that are not that high ranking either
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so I I think that's um one of the uh
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like uplifting sides of this so we have
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also in our guide ways to minimize
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academic and living cost in Switzerland
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scholarships for international students
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parttime for for international students
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uh which aan talked about um we also we
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have
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actually let me see we also have have um
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a video on this how to study in
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Switzerland for free which is like uh
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your were which is a video that you were
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really interested in so you might want
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to check that out do we have a country
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guide for
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this um let me
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see yeah we do so we have we do have a
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country guide um where you can see like
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pretty much everything you would need uh
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from higher education information to
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pros and cons universities programs
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applying to universities uh language
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proficiencies and yeah this is the one
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how to study in Switzerland for free
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where you will find even more
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information to about how to finance your
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education here and then you can also
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watch our video too anyway that's pretty
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much it on uh what we want to say about
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studying and like the cost of studying
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in Switzerland Aman do you want to say
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anything else about this topic
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um so for the University of loan I think
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I sent you a link uh they don't have an
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English dedicated page it's only in
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French and speaking of that um it's
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really really hard to find English
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taught courses at the bachelor's level
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in Switzerland so Switzerland is a
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country that has four official
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languages uh so it it's not an
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englishspeaking country per se I I think
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the predominant language is
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French uh they speak Italian and I think
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Roman yeah um on top of English but at
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the undergraduate level it's really hard
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to find English taught courses you would
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only find or not only but you would find
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more of those at The Graduate level so
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as a master's or a BD student um you
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would find courses that are taught in
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English so anyone
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who wants to study in Switzerland and
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can speak French or
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Italian I would say French to
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uh to to a bigger
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extent uh you need to reconsider where
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you want to study maybe you should look
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into other
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countries uh if the cost of living is
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not an issue for you um yeah so other
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than that I think that's a big point to
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make that I forgot to make
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just remembered when I only found a page
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in
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French um yeah other than that I think
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well we have pretty much covered
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everything concerning the cost of
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studying and living uh in
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Switzerland yeah so by the way this is
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not so this um this page at least has an
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English um
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version I think like probably you cannot
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directly go to this one uh but I've seen
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so many pages where you can choose
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either Italian German or French and
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there is no English oh basically they
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don't have any uh but one thing that
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might be a little bit uh like a silver
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lining from that is so basically there
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are different places like different
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regions in the country um and like so
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perhaps maybe you want to study in
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Switzerland uh but you don't know any
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German um so if you don't if you know
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French uh you can just like go to a
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French speaking part or maybe you know
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Italian you can just go to Italian
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speaking part and a lot of people will
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be uh speaking that language so like if
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you if you do not know it's not like
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that uh you will you will go there by
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just knowing one language and people
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will always expect you to speak another
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language like another one of those
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languages to so like your social life
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will be crippled um at least you will
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know before going what language will be
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spoken there and it's kind of like an
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kind of nice because like I like from
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what I see like they're all like their
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own different countries like the French
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part is like a little more French than
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German part Italian part is a little bit
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Italian but they're still all
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Switzerland uh so by the way um
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completely like living costs and um how
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expensive things are kind of uh depends
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on that too like Italian part Italian
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side of the country will be a little bit
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more
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more affordable than the German uh part
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because like also the average income is
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a little lower too so like at least this
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is one thing that I really like about
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German universities and I think that
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like Switzerland kind of also has this
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like they have a lot of bureaucracy and
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it can be really tiresome for people who
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are going there from other countries but
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also they like everything is very very
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um exact I would say say like you will
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know what you're getting into before you
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go there like they give you a lot of
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information uh from the get- go so I
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think that that's kind of better in
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terms that like there are less
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unpleasant surprises I guess so I think
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that's one of the Silver Linings
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here so yeah by the way this is also
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like 2,000 uh Franks per month again
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pretty much the same
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