<prompt> Human: Background information: I live in Singapore. Im currently conscripted by the army here, but thats about to end soon. I did fine on my studies and was accepted into a local university which is ranked within top 50 globally, whatever thats worth for their accounting program. My Asian parents have been pushing me to apply to a USoverseas university. They say that they could afford to pay for it - were medium income, but theyve saved up a bit, and due to the government programs here, theres no real need to worry about retirement.The marginal cost for doing so is at least 150k local universities here are highly subsided, plus I dont need to worry about living expenses. With an SAT score of 2.2k, I probably can get into a decent university. But looking at the tuition costs Im very apprehensive, even though its not my money. Is it worth spending so much for an experience studying overseas? Couldnt the money just be invested and net better returns than whatever benefits I might get?I confess that this is only tangentially related to finance, but I cant think of anyone better to ask. Any advice at all would be appreciated.  <response>: If you want to end up living in the US. Then I would consider it. If you have no desire to live in the US long term, then I dont think a US degree would help you significantly unless you were talking about an Ivy League school. 