Estonia is a small beautiful North Eastern European country. It has a population of less than 1.4m people. Its capital is in Tallinn, that borders between Russia and Finland. Though many people regard Estonia as another poor Eastern Europe country but the reverse is the case. Estonians regards themselves more as Scandinavian countries with Denmark, Sweden and Finland. They have a high living standard with low unemployment rate.


Estonia is a member of European Union, Schengen zone, and also a member of NATO(Cyber security headquarter of Nato is located in tallinn, Estonia). A very advanced country in Information Technology. One of their most popular start up is SKYPE though later sold to Facebook.

IT in Estonia
A popular IT system here is the use of ID Card. with this card, u can virtually access all Government services like Health care, transport, Business registration etc and banking and all other business. Infact, government services in Estonia runs 24 hours. As simple as it may sound, E Governance in Estonia is quite complex system. All database of information of all public and private organization are connected with a technology called X- Road. Serious countries all over the world send their citizens here for training to learn how Estonia e governance work. (Google e Estonia).

A brief scenario of how the system work as regards to police
An offender committed a crime in lets say UK and decides to come over to Estonia to settle whereas UK govt is on the look for him. If come here and enter a public bus, the system will notify the Estonia police of his current location. If he decides to use his own car, a camera that scans Plate nos detects his location because the car registration is linked to him. So crime here is extremely low because everything is connected.

Life in Estonia
Estonia being among the coldest countries in the world, social life is not much. But there plenty of clubs(strippers) as well in Tallinn and night parties. A lot of tourist attraction especially in Old Town part of Tallinn. Transport is generally free in Tallinn Estonia with free wifi connected in public places like bus stops, malls, parks etc. Internet is also connected to the houses in Tallinn(free). In fact, internet is like a human right here. Everything u do here is on the internet.
The cost of living here is extremely low compared with other EU countries.
Languages spoken in Estonia - Eesti, English and Russia in that order.

Education in Estonia
There are two main public university in Estonia, Tartu University and Tallinn University of Technology. Tartu university is a conventional university and among top 350 schools in the world. Its located in a city called Tartu. Tallinn University of Technology as the name implies is a Technology based university. Because the country is an IT based country, they tend to support courses in Engineering and IT based with scholarship and tuition free programs. This simply mean that if u apply and lucky to get a course in fields related to IT and Engineering in general, then u are automatically on scholarship. No school fees payment till u graduate. Infact the govt will pay u some amount of money monthly for ur upkeep. For any PHD course, u re sure of getting at least 400 euro for monthly upkeep.(i know ur eye balls must be rolling now).
Courses for International students are offered in English
Admission process starts first week of December and new session resumes August.

Job Opportunities in Estonia
For students, they are allowed to work up to 40 hours a week on part time jobs. Also after completing your studies, u re allowed up to 6 months to stay and find a job to renew your residence permit.There are plenty of IT jobs here.................if you are good in Software developer (JAVA) and a web programmer(PHP), u are lucky. Else, if u dont have deep and practical IT knowledge, then be ready to serve coffee and watch plates in hotels. Though when u do these menial jobs on full time, u can get up 1000 euro monthly.

Thanks for this wonderful information.

what abt dere students visa procedures

bsafolabi:
what abt dere students visa procedures

when given admission, u can apply for visa from any nearby country that has Estonian Embassy. Or u can get a visa to visit any Schengen country and then continue to Estonia. Or you can apply for visa from Belgium embassy Nigeria.

Thank you so much for your vital information, well am an undergraduate looking for an admission how do i apply for admission and what are the procedures

henry700:
Thank you so much for your vital information, well am an undergraduate looking for an admission how do i apply for admission and what are the procedures

Estonian has a central portal where all applicants from various nationalities can apply for admission into various universities in Estonia.
The portal is called dream apply. U can google Estonia Dream Apply.

What's the duration of their school?

disaac73:
What's the duration of their school?

msc 2yrs, degree3, phd 4

This is nice am interested but I don't know how to go about the toefl....

morjid:
This is nice am interested but I don't know how to go about the toefl....

there are hundred of centres where u can write toefl exam in naija. even in nairaland, u ll see many agents for toefl examination. so thats not a problem.

europestudy2015:


there are hundred of centres where u can write toefl exam in naija. even in nairaland, u ll see many agents for toefl examination. so thats not a problem.

are you in estonia nw?

Thank you very much for this wonderful info,,,,

Would love to do my masters there but do they accept HND (upper credit)? pls reply

europestudy2015:
Life in Estonia
Estonia being among the coldest countries in the world, social life is not much. But there plenty of clubs(strippers) as well in Tallinn and night parties. A lot of tourist attraction especially in Old Town part of Tallinn. Transport is generally free in Tallinn Estonia with free wifi connected in public places like bus stops, malls, parks etc. Internet is also connected to the houses in Tallinn(free). In fact, internet is like a human right here. Everything u do here is on the internet.
The cost of living here is extremely low compared with other EU countries.
Languages spoken in Estonia - Eesti, English and Russia in that order.

Education in Estonia
There are two main public university in Estonia, Tartu University and Tallinn University of Technology. Tartu university is a conventional university and among top 350 schools in the world. Its located in a city called Tartu. Tallinn University of Technology as the name implies is a Technology based university. Because the country is an IT based country, they tend to support courses in Engineering and IT based with scholarship and tuition free programs. This simply mean that if u apply and lucky to get a course in fields related to IT and Engineering in general, then u are automatically on scholarship. No school fees payment till u graduate. Infact the govt will pay u some amount of money monthly for ur upkeep. For any PHD course, u re sure of getting at least 400 euro for monthly upkeep.(i know ur eye balls must be rolling now).
Courses for International students are offered in English
Admission process starts first week of December and new session resumes August.

hello bro, how much is the school fees am goin for undergarduate any course in technology, is ther entrance exam?

Do they still need toefl for masters?

Mickyboiz:
hello bro, how much is the school fees am goin for undergarduate any course in technology, is ther entrance exam?

check the dreamapply website the OP stated .fees are always quoted against each course

Many of the courses also require Skype interview

odave:
Do they still need toefl for masters?

submit certifications that will make your application stand out inclduing toefl and others

luckygirl02:
Would love to do my masters there but do they accept HND (upper credit)? pls reply

HND is not accepted.

coldsummer:


Please can ur dm your contact number to me. Would love for my brother to explore nursing there.

I will suggest you check the dream apply website to confirm if there is nursing on the list of courses...as far as I know I don't think so..it might have been updated

Love this..

I believe one day naija would be great just like these developed con3s.

I just stumbled on this post and I want to believe that 'europestudy2015' is in Estonia at the moment. I applied early this year to University of Tartu through dreamapply though my application was rejected due to requirement and I'm planning to re-apply again this year ending when the portal will be opened again, reason being that I see the need to improve on my motivation letter. I don't mind any assistance you can render as regards this. Thanks.

Dhavoh:
I just stumbled on this post and I want to believe that 'europestudy2015' is in Estonia at the moment. I applied early this year to University of Tartu through dreamapply though my application was rejected due to requirement and I'm planning to re-apply again this year ending when the portal will be opened again, reason being that I see the need to improve on my motivation letter. I don't mind any assistance you can render as regards this. Thanks.

T

Maybe you should clearly state the reasons why your application was rejected if you have been told...if not,politely ask the admission office....the house can then advise you on how to go about it.
What course did you apply for?

No tuition fee
if the student is studying
with full study load. If
student fails to study with
full study load then the
price of 1 ECTS is 43 EUR.* plss house i found ds on talinn university of technology pardon me i dnt really understand ds plss does it means dat if i av low cgpa/ fail a course sum1 wil start payin for tuition fees i dnt really understand ?

Mickyboiz:
No tuition fee
if the student is studying
with full study load. If
student fails to study with
full study load then the
price of 1 ECTS is 43 EUR.* plss house i found ds on talinn university of technology pardon me i dnt really understand ds plss does it means dat if i av low cgpa/ fail a course sum1 wil start payin for tuition fees i dnt really understand ?

Full load mean you have to do a minimum of 30ects per semester(the total number of the credits of all courses).....if you are on free tuition program...anything less than that you will have to pay for your studies