🇺🇸 United States
English
All universities (24)
- Harvard University —
United States, Cambridge, MA · $62 226 / year - Stanford University — United States, Stanford · $67 731 / year
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — United States, Cambridge, MA · $66 720 / year
- University of Pennsylvania — United States, Philadelphia · $65 670 / year
- Yale University — United States, New Haven · $72 500 / year
- Princeton University — United States, Princeton · $68 140 / year
- Columbia University — United States, New York · $72 800 / year
- California Institute of Technology — United States, Pasadena · $65 622 / year
- University of Chicago — United States, Chicago · $79 395 / year
- University of California, Berkeley — United States, Berkeley · $57 484 / year
- Cornell University — United States, Ithaca · $73 946 / year
- Northwestern University — United States, Evanston · $71 802 / year
- University of Michigan — United States, Ann Arbor · $67 096 / year
- Johns Hopkins University — United States, Baltimore · $66 000 / year
- University of California, Los Angeles — United States, Los Angeles · $55 700 / year
- New York University — United States, New York · $68 576 – $75 326 / year
- University of Texas at Austin — United States, Austin · $42 554 – $51 106 / year
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign — United States, Urbana-Champaign · $36 328 – $44 340 / year
- University of Washington — United States, Seattle · $44 580 / year
- Carnegie Mellon University — United States, Pittsburgh · $69 702 / year
- Brown University — United States, Providence · $74 568 / year
- Purdue University — United States, West Lafayette · $32 104 – $36 154 / year
- Georgia Institute of Technology — United States, Atlanta · $35 610 – $37 326 / year
- Boston University — United States, Boston · $73 024 / year
Applying with a Ukrainian school certificate
The Ukrainian certificate is accepted. Required: grades for years 9–11, an essay, recommendations, TOEFL/IELTS/Duolingo; many top universities again require SAT/ACT (MIT, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, etc.). Apply via Common App.
Climate
A huge country with very varied climates: snowy winters and hot summers in the northeast (Boston, New York), a mild Mediterranean climate in California, subtropics in the south.
Cost of living
Depends heavily on the city: ≈ $1 500–3 000 per month; universities publish their own “cost of attendance”.
Visa
Student visa F-1, I-20 form from the university, SEVIS. fee
Work while studying
F-1 visa: up to 20 h/week on campus during the semester; off-campus work — only under CPT/OPT.
After graduation
OPT — 12 months of work in your field; for STEM-fields another +24 months (STEM OPT).