Are masters programs outside the US and UK competitive?

[Watashi]

Are Masters programs in Europe, excluding Britain competitive? I hear they are much, much cheaper, but I dont know if that would be worth it at all if your end goal would be to get into a Phd program with the MA aiding that process.

One I was looking at was the masters program for the University of Amsterdam

[maxhgns]

Depends on the university. Amsterdam, yes. Louvain, yes. Munich and Berlin, yes. ENS, yes. That's hardly an exhaustive list, but there are several with a good halo that don't incur any kind of penalty in perception for being "foreign".

(There is, of course, also Canada, which lies outside the US and Britain and has excellent MA programs, many of them much more competitive than the UK's. In fact, quite a few are as good as/better than the top US MAs.)

[Marcus_Aurelius]

I think Central European University has a funded MA program that's quite well respected in US/UK.

[ararslan]

I would recommend APHIL program at the University of Barcelona. (Very competitive)

[trolleyproblem]

On 2/27/2019 at 4:41 PM, ararslan said:

I would recommend APHIL program at the University of Barcelona. (Very competitive)

Any info on placement? I might be starting this MA in September.

[ararslan]

11 hours ago, trolleyproblem said:

Any info on placement? I might be starting this MA in September.

here you can find all the information: http://www.ub.edu/aphil/en