High if you are thinking of going overseas, be prepared to spend around $25,000 (depending on your lifestyle) a year. School fees alone is around $14,000 plus. Your monthly expenses include transport, food, rental, purchasing films, developing, telephone bills and etc will cost you at least $1,000 a month. The course is a 3 year course. 1st year you go back to the basic. Second year you work your way to specialized in an area which interest you. Final year, you finalized your folio which you will need when you start out this career. Courses have changes since I last met my lecturer. So if you really want to know, I will email you his contact for further correspondent.
So if you or your parents can afford by all means. My parents only gave me $800 a month. Any extras, I had to work for it. You will be surprise, washing dishes earns quite a lot. I use to do that with a friend of mine. We manage to earn about $700-$800 a month ( you are allow to work for 80 hours a month) but during holidays, you can work longer. Around 3-4 hours a day. Tired but worth it as we manage to travel round Australia with the extra $$$$!
If you are really looking at it, I can introduced the International Correspondent to you. He's my lecturer. The course is really good. If you have a good folio, you can get a year's exemption. Australia is really a great place to do all kinds of photography as it has great landscapes, beautiful natural resources, Asian people, Italians, Greeks and Aussies as well. They have mix Asian guys and gals who are quite good looking to take photos of.
Food is good as the varieties are great. Exchange rates are close to 1 on 1. No worries about conversions but I must say things over there are more ex than local.
Thanks and good luck! Hope our pointers are good enough to let you make a decision.
