French universities angle for extra English-speaking African college students


The colleges working below the banner of Campus France are looking for to diversify the vary of scholars finding out there from Africa, away from conventional French-speaking nations on the continent.

Establishments are buoyed by the actual fact they’re providing as many as 1,600 diploma programmes in English – giving college students from throughout the continent a spread of enterprise and engineering diploma programs to select from.

“We wish to attain college students from English talking nations in Africa – we would like them to know extra about us.

“We’d like them to know that it’s potential to review in France – even with out being proficient in French,” Matthieu Bragato, advertising and marketing supervisor within the African unit at Campus France, informed The PIE Information.

The company has in its portal a “taught-in English” platform from the place non-French talking college students can discover info on packages within the language, and concerning the establishments providing them, he added.

Campus France was reaching out to non-French talking college students as one among its recruitment priorities, even because it sought “high quality” college students from throughout the board, he stated.

“French universities cost “truthful” charges when in comparison with conventional locations most well-liked by Anglophone Africa college students such because the [US], Canada and United Kingdom.

“It is because the French authorities has subsidised schooling,” he famous.

Consequently, universities had been charging ‘engaging’ charges as little as 2770 euro a 12 months for bachelors levels, 3770 euro for masters levels a 12 months, and €380 a 12 months for PhDs.

Alternatively, tuition charges in personal establishments ranged from 5000 euro for a 12 months of examine, Bragato informed a “Select France” occasion in Nairobi, Kenya on Tuesday attended by 12 French universities.

“French universities cost “truthful” charges when in comparison with conventional locations”

This was not inclusive of scholars gaining access to good healthcare, entry to museums and libraries and potential monetary assist.

However, he famous, admission to French universities remained very aggressive – and universities merely went for the easiest college students.

Francophone African nations have a number of the highest proportions of worldwide college students in European nations, with Morocco main globally with 46,371 college students in 2021.

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