[CertifiedDimePiece]

I know of a girl who grew up in USA all her life. She's a kenyan citizen but at a young age, her parents moved here. After high school,(not too far from now) she wants to attend Kenyan Universities.
She doesn't know what kenya is like but really is interested but has lots of opinions telling her to stay some telling her to go.
Her parents will be in USA and can help her with school fees.
If she were to go there.
Fees would be 80,000 a semester, that is 1047 us dollars. If she stays on campus, its 34 dollars a month that is more like 2000 kenyan shillings.
She wants to go for her first year in college then come back for her masters degree.

Do you think she should go or stay? your opinion is urgently needed.

[Shetani_nyekundu]

hahaha. someone feels like me. maze if i was you i would go a kenyan uni. USIU to be specific. the fees is 180k a year. which aint **** if you gettin dollars exported down there. I was in kenya last year and ma moms aint want me to come back to da states at da time and i would have gone to USIU. but ma thing at the time was goin to kibich in search of da best godez. maze dat skool is on fire. and the system is da same anyways. they'll transfer yo credos if you ever feel like you dont wanna stay there any mo. personally, i'd advice you to go. I'm workin on goin there myself but ma financial aid people dont wanna send me there coz i'm kenyan in da first place. they say i might not come back after grad. maze if i was you i'd go. but then again i'm a chali and you a manzi. our interests might be diff. lol. all the pretty people go there. if you kno wat me a mean

[msema ukweli Kabisa]

Originally Posted by CertifiedDimePiece

I know of a girl who grew up in USA all her life. She's a kenyan citizen but at a young age, her parents moved here. After high school,(not too far from now) she wants to attend Kenyan Universities.
She doesn't know what kenya is like but really is interested but has lots of opinions telling her to stay some telling her to go.
Her parents will be in USA and can help her with school fees.
If she were to go there.
Fees would be 80,000 a semester, that is 1047 us dollars. If she stays on campus, its 34 dollars a month that is more like 2000 kenyan shillings.
She wants to go for her first year in college then come back for her masters degree.

Do you think she should go or stay? your opinion is urgently needed.

Ok lets see

She is an american citizen, and a female. Whats her amptitude, as in SAT's.

Because getting scholarships is super easy if she is bright. And also there are alot of cheap federal loans.

In my opinion (having done undergrad at home) if you can afford to come to school here in the states, I would advise one too. there are lot of opportunity and quite alot of grey areas. You can do a liberal arts degree for undergrad and an MBA and end up making thousands of dollars more than a doctor back home.

anyway you get my point

[jungunijinga]

Originally Posted by msema ukweli Kabisa

Ok lets see

She is an american citizen, and a female. Whats her amptitude, as in SAT's.

Because getting scholarships is super easy if she is bright. And also there are alot of cheap federal loans.

In my opinion (having done undergrad at home) if you can afford to come to school here in the states, I would advise one too. there are lot of opportunity and quite alot of grey areas. You can do a liberal arts degree for undergrad and an MBA and end up making thousands of dollars more than a doctor back home.

anyway you get my point

Umechanganyikiwa kabisa!! Hata kushinda poster's buddy

[Benzema]

Originally Posted by CertifiedDimePiece

I know of a girl who grew up in USA all her life. She's a kenyan citizen but at a young age, her parents moved here. After high school,(not too far from now) she wants to attend Kenyan Universities.
She doesn't know what kenya is like but really is interested but has lots of opinions telling her to stay some telling her to go.
Her parents will be in USA and can help her with school fees.
If she were to go there.
Fees would be 80,000 a semester, that is 1047 us dollars. If she stays on campus, its 34 dollars a month that is more like 2000 kenyan shillings.
She wants to go for her first year in college then come back for her masters degree.

Do you think she should go or stay? your opinion is urgently needed.

Hmmm. My five cents advise. There are different options.
Doing half-half. If you want to save money and get a feel of Kenyan experience/environment, go study in Kenya for the first two years- instead of going to a Junior College.
Depending on the course she wants to do, this might be tricky especially if she want to study sciences.
Most people don't realize how narrow the courses offered in private Universities in Kenya are... in terms of choices available. For instance, there is almost no science, law etc. These are some of the decisions she has to make.

As someone suggested, there are so many opportunities for minority students in the US that can help in easing the money burden. There are also tonnes of universities where you can spend one year abroad with the exchange programs.


If she need advise, I can hook her with a friend from Tanzania who grew up in the US and studied for a few years at a Kenyan private university and then came back to the US to finish her undergraduate.

[KILL PROPAGANDA]

Depends on what she wants to study, If she wants to do an arts degree (sociology, education, anthropology, cultural studies, economics etc) then there is no harm going to a Kenyan University, even a public one (at least at Nairobi and Kenyatta, she can be sure to graduate in 3-4 years.) and the collegiate experience in my opinion is better in Kenya than in America.

But If she wants to do any Science and Technology degree especially an engineering degree, she better not even dare set her foot in Kenya.

all the same, a Kenyan degree is considered good quality by most multinational companies.

My advise though is this: being an American citizen, with all those offers of scholarships, awards she can qualify for at some of the top universities in the world, I would be crazy even considering going to struggle in a Kenyan university with all that red tape.