Author: Sanjay Laul

Discussions of access to international education tend to settle quickly on two familiar levers: scholarships and financing. Both matter enormously. However, for families in Bangladesh considering studying abroad today, a third factor has emerged that plays a significant role, which is not as widely recognized. In this context, it is whether families are able to distinguish enough between the available possibilities in order to avoid the expenses of enrolling in a program that does not suit them, or after having put together an application that costs them money and also going through the trouble of applying to another university without…