Top 7 Career Benefits and Reasons to Study Russian:

The challenge of learning Russian is attracting more and more eager students every year, especially as the country has emerged into a free market economy, where knowledge of Russian opens a world of business opportunities.
 
1. Career Growth : Great Opportunities for career in Russian Language !
 
Russian language is regarded to be one of the next best things for those who want to make big in any industry. Moreover, you would be excited to know that most of the American corporations are giving whopping remuneration to their bilingual employees. As most of the firms are getting globalized, more and more employers are interested in hiring employees who have an understanding of one or more culture and language other than their own.


2.Studying Russian helps you enter undergraduate and post-graduate programs with scholarship : Students who study Russian have a high rate of acceptance for graduate study in law school, business school,medical school, and other professional programs as well as getting full time scholarship.

2.The US Government needs more Russian-language specialists: US Federal agencies have identified Russian as a priority language of national need. There are huge job opportunities for Russian language specialist by the Federal agencies and regard it as the one most significant languages for the country.

Also, With Russian language skills, you can work with American businesses participating in this successful market.Russia ranks among the top ten countries in the world for entrepreneurship. Some former Russian students have worked for the American Council of Teachers of Russian and the International Research and Exchange Board (IREX) both in the US and in Russia.
 
3.Speak Russian to engage in the Russian economy: Russia is one of the largest producers,if not the largest producer, of numerous natural resources and raw materials including petroleum, diamonds, gold, copper, manganese, uranium, silver,graphite, and platinum. Russia has an estimated 40% of the world total reserves of natural gas. Russia’s proven oil reserves are second only to Saudi Arabia’s, and it is the top oil producer in the world. Russia is an enormous market for US goods and services.
Florida and Russia are doing business too: two-way trade between Florida and Russia was more than $986 million in 2007.

4.It gives an opportunity to Participate in business
For those who are seeking business plan in Russia, it would be impossible to venture without having knowledge and understanding of its language and culture. The beautiful country has marked huge growth in the last few years as there were largest number of billionaires in the Russian capital

 5.Russian combines well with many other disciplines:
business and Russian, science and Russian, political science or history and Russian, English and Russian,another foreign language and Russian, engineering and Russian, mathematics and Russian, music and Russian. Russian provides you with opportunities your non-Russian studying classmates don’t have. For instance, a student majoring in biology and Russian can work with Russian biologists in a laboratory in Russia, get a scholarship to study fresh water ecology in Lake Baikal and Lake Tahoe, and then go on to medical school.

 6.Russian is spoken by hundreds of millions of people:  The Russian Federation spans nine time zones and covers about 1/8th of the world’s land surface. It is the largest country in the world, almost twice the size of the United States. There are around 270 million Russian speakers in the world. 

7. Russian Program is a proven success. Students in our program have received internships with the US State Department in Moscow, Fulbright Awards, the Pickering Undergraduate Fellowship in Foreign Affairs, and jobs with the Department of Defense, Defense Language Institute, and US State Department. They have conducted research in Moscow libraries and archives for honors theses, served with the Peace Corps, become finalists for the Rhodes Scholarship, and entered graduate programs at prestigious universities(Georgetown, Harvard, Indiana University, Rutgers, University of Toronto, among others).

Admission requirements
1. O'Level result
2. Data page of international passport
3. Application form

Tuition fee
$700 to $1400 per year

Accommodation
$350 per academic session

Duration
6 months to 1 year

Resumption dates
Fall, spring, and summer

Courtesy
Jakes embassy limited (RC 1513565)