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Hi patienceshmaitience! Well yes, i have been doing some research on IOE and here in Europe it really looks pretty well - if you take the number of interns they have in EC or UNESCO it's the leading Master you can get. I have heard good comments about their faculty and that you can get an assistantships in their projects pretty easily. They have been convincing me to apply for their Mundus Master in Life Long Learning - it's really interesting (IOE, Copenhaguen, Deusto in Spain and Melbourne - you get 3 diplomas at once) but i am not sure if i want to stay longer in Europe. My opinion would be that US education in Europe is super highly regarded and people in education/EC would be more impressed with an american degree from a good university. what is good about ioe is that it can land you in european organizations for summer. i don't know if you want to go back to the us right after your degree or wish to stay in europe to get some experience. if the latter is your opinion i would go for ioe and than get a more advance degree back in the us. i have been working in international education for a while now and honestly my bet is that ec has more interesting programmes (maybe smaller scale) but more grass-root and better to get experience

Congrats to all! It's really nice to see people applying to same programmes. Well, i come from a little different background so it was a tough thing with no GRE and Ma diploma from Poland that was recognized as BA by WES. I guess that might have been one of the main reasons i did not get in to M.Ed at TC (should have applied for MA but how could i have known this). Anyways, i was accepted to NYU, IOE-London (it's pretty big here in Europe, really a leading institution) and Lund. I have also got into Global Higher Education at Madison. I would really appreciate your honest opinion - i have been working in managing international projects with developing countries in higher education for the last 3 years and have 2 professional postgrad diplomas in this and global development. i have been thinking of venturing for international organisations in higher education development. it's a no-go without a well-recognized degree. do you think it's better to go for international education or stick to higher education and do madison? here in europe nyu is a big thing (of course not like tc but i just do not want to wait another year) but it's very expensive. is it really worth it? what is your opinion on this? us degree is still the most valued and whatever you say i don't think you can compare ioe-london to this. Any comments?