Travel to study is over rated, we have brilliant scholars who studied locally. Is travel really required for higher studies?

The debate on whether tertiary students should travel for study is an old one, with attitudes of people shifting throughout the debate over the years. Proponents and opponents make their cases to support their views on this unresolved issue. In my opinion, travel is not necessary for tertiary studies especially when online courses are readily available.

There are numerous arguments surrounding my viewpoint, but the most important factor that should be considered relates to the cost savings of local studies. In other words, students do not need to pay exorbitant international student fees to study overseas when there are online courses for literally every subject topic from top ranking universities all over the world. Statistics from credible sources also reveal that all top 10 universities in the world offer distance learning options for hundreds of industry relevant subjects at a fraction of the cost of international course fees. To elaborate further, few pertinent examples are Industrial Design and Fashion delivered online by Professors from Cornell and Harvard University. Hence, it will not be wrong to say that there is high probability in local brilliant scholars.

On the contrary, it is also possible to make the opposing case. It can be argued that international travel to study fosters intercultural understanding and acceptance. Critics also believe that studying overseas help make students independent and mature at a faster rate as they often have to take care of many matters on their own. However, those who advocate the viewpoint, fail to see the bigger picture.

In light of the above discussions, it seems fair and justifiable to say that travelling to study is over-rated and it is not necessary for students to travel for tertiary studies.

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Average: 8 (1 vote)
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, so, in my opinion, in other words, on the contrary

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.5418719212 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 5.0 6.10837438424 82% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 8.36945812808 96% => OK
Relative clauses : 9.0 5.94088669951 151% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 20.9802955665 91% => OK
Preposition: 41.0 31.9359605911 128% => OK
Nominalization: 3.0 5.75862068966 52% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1504.0 1207.87684729 125% => OK
No of words: 283.0 242.827586207 117% => OK
Chars per words: 5.31448763251 5.00649968141 106% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.10153676581 3.92707691288 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.86445837847 2.71678728327 105% => OK
Unique words: 170.0 139.433497537 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.600706713781 0.580463131201 103% => OK
syllable_count: 474.3 379.143842365 125% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.57093596059 108% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 4.6157635468 108% => OK
Article: 1.0 1.56157635468 64% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.71428571429 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 1.0 0.931034482759 107% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 3.65517241379 164% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 13.0 12.6551724138 103% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.5024630542 102% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.4269717991 50.4703680194 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 115.692307692 104.977214359 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7692307692 20.9669160288 104% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.23076923077 7.25397266985 86% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.12807881773 97% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.33497536946 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 6.9802955665 115% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 2.75862068966 36% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 2.91625615764 137% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.270356971006 0.242375264174 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0913924533739 0.0925447433944 99% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0965620672038 0.071462118173 135% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.190367570993 0.151781067708 125% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0802740650202 0.0609392437508 132% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.5 12.6369458128 115% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 53.1260098522 78% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.54236453202 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 10.9458128079 116% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.52 11.5310837438 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.42 8.32886699507 113% => OK
difficult_words: 85.0 55.0591133005 154% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.94827586207 116% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.3980295567 100% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.5123152709 86% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 80.0 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 72.0 Out of 90
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