Can anyone guide me as to what course to study please?

Hi

How about the option to study Journalism??? Possibly you can put it to use with English Lit. I should admit that I am not well informed about the job-opportunities in US for this field.

Hope this helps.

Cheers
Jenz

 

Hi Deepshika,

I'm not sure what advice to give you considering you don't have work permit yet but I would definitely suggest getting a work permit asap.

Even from arts background, you can do whatever you want in America. However here's some sites that you can see to help you decide which course you want to do.

O*NET OnLine -- based on skills u can find jobs and see what they do in job, education needed, skills needed and salary info and more

Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-09 Edition -- another excellent site that tells u all the needed info too w/projected job openings and salary ranges

For more sites, you can just google "career info" and you can get more sites.

But from what I understood Nursing is better than computers even tho computers has diverse job options since there's a shortage of nurses in USA while there's no shortage of jobs in computers from what I gathered. Also With an associate degree in Nursing, you can later get a license and become registered Nurse which will give you lot more money too. But you should check your interests too so don't decide on a career just based on money alone.

Hope this helps and Good luck

Sere

 

Hi Deepshika,
You are very mistaken are about teaching in Schools here. A lot of them hire Indians. With your English Qualification, i would suggest that you look into getting a Degree in Education or 12 ECE units from your community college. This will qualify you for getting a teaching position here in any school.

A lot of private schools and public ones do employ Indians. Though i have heard that its easier to get a teaching position in a private school than a public one.

Nursing a nice profession but it is a demanding job.

Vandhana

 

Hi Deepshika,

Vandana is very right about Indians teaching English courses. There are Indians who teach English in schools.

For English though, you don't have to be only a teacher unless you want it. With a little bit of preparation in professional/technical writing, you can go into many fields like even computers, or medical field, etc to use English to prepare documents, etc.

For more info, you can see here what you can do with a degree in English.

http://www.utexas.edu/student/cec/careers/english.pdf
A Note to An English Major: In Pursuit of a Degree
College Majors and Careers - English
http://careers.cua.edu/explore/englishresources.htm

Hope this helps

Sere

 

Hi Deepshika,

Can you please tell us what prereqs they are asking for?

In some cases, you can just take an exam to opt out of the prereq course.

However, you can also talk to admissions counselor, etc so that if you do have any similar course credits from india, then they might take it instead, or they might just advice you to take the course in college in summer or something before becoming full time student.

Assessment at San Diego City College -- i'm thinking that these are the prereqs you are talking about?--they also said about how they would take similar credits if you can prove that it's similar, etc.

Either case, it's better to talk to the admissions people to get the best possible solution.

Good luck in Nursing!!

Sere

 

Hi Deepshika,

Did you find out what kind of pre- req courses you will taking. I have applied in one of the colleges in Georgia. This is what i did. First we have get our mark sheets from Indian university evaluated. There are lot of companies who does that for a nominal fee. Once you get that you have to submit it to the college and then they will guide you based on that. The only thing is if you are in h4 you may have to pay "International fee" which is four times higher than the in state fee. That's is the only problem that i am not able to continue. I am not sure if anybody have any other better ways or ideas. Talk to the financial department of the college you are planning to go. May be it will be different in your state. Please do lett me know what happened. If anyone any other suggestions of getting a student aid please help me.Drowning

Raji

 

Read and learn Chinese or Japanese language. This will get a good job in personnal coahing with Indians in U.S.