Best of 2023 – Our Most Popular Blogs of the Year
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Posted on 18 Dec '23

Best of 2023 – Our Most Popular Blogs of the Year

It has been a volatile year with the ongoing cost-of-living crisis and student visa overhauls by a number of countries. We’ve been busier than ever keeping you up to date with everything postgraduate-related and have hopefully helped a few of you to find your ideal Masters.

With the year drawing to a close, we’ve put together a round-up of some of our top-performing blogs on FindAMasters. It’s great to see that study abroad is still high on people’s agendas, and that some of our country specific content has been peaking your interest!

#5 What you need to know about the Duolingo English Test

MA vs MSc vs MRes – what’s the real difference?

Do you have to take an English Language proficiency test to study abroad? While you’d probably have heard of the more popular ones like IELTS and TOEFL, you may not have considered the Duolingo Test yet. It is a fully online test and over 3,500 universities across the world accept it as proof of English proficiency. Give this blog a read to find out if it would suit you, what the test is like and how it is scored.



#4 What are the cheapest Canadian cities to live in as a student?

The worst reasons to apply for a Masters

Tuition fees might be the biggest component of your student budget, but it is the living costs that tend to add up! In this blog, we’ve used crowdsourced data to narrow down five of the cheapest cities to live in Canada as a student. Even though we encourage you to focus on choosing a university and city that has your desired course, it is also important to know where you can afford to live.



#3 5 most popular subjects to study in Germany

Study abroad for free? 11 European countries where Masters tuition is free (or almost free) in 2022-23

The only thing that’s better than finding your dream course is finding it at a university in your dream study abroad destination. If Germany is where you want to be, we’ve used data from our own website to look at the five most popular subjects in the country. Did your choice of subject make the cut?



#2 How I won a Chevening Scholarship – 10 tips for success

Why you should consider studying a Masters in the UK on a Chevening Scholarship

The Chevening Scholarship is a prestigious (and competitive!) funding programme for international students, enabling them to study a fully funded, one-year Masters in the UK. Our guest blogger, Loshana, a Chevening Scholarship recipient herself, talks about her experience and gives her top tips to ace the application.



#1 Study abroad, for free? 11 European countries where Masters tuition is free (or almost free) in 2023-24

 7 unusual Masters courses you (probably) haven

The ongoing cost-of-living crisis has affected everyone, especially students wanting to study abroad. We’ve taken a look at some European countries where you can study a Masters without spending a fortune. In some of these cases, even for free!



Our team is always looking for ways to simplify all the information out there about postgraduate study, so we hope our content has been helpful over the past year, We wish you all the very best for your postgraduate endeavours in 2024. We’ll be back in the New Year with more postgrad advice and updates.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from everyone at FindAMasters.



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Last updated: 18 December 2023