 Tonga, a beautiful island in the central Pacific. Wait a second. That's Fiji No, that's Vanuatu There it is. That's Tonga. What's so special about Tonga? Well, I mean just look at it. It's freaking beautiful But there's more to Tonga than just beautiful island scenery What if I told you that you could start studying in Tonga this year even if you haven't finished high school What if I told you that you could study in a country where COVID-19 never happened? Is it Tonga time? It's totally Tonga time and I'm excited to tell you how to study in Tonga If you find this content helpful I would love it if you would just take a moment to hit that little subscribe button down below the video Because when you subscribe it means that more people get to see content like this and that makes me happy because I don't feel like I wasted hours and hours on my videos every day classes typically start in March And there's another semester that begins in July or August It takes four years to get a degree in Tonga But instead of just giving you a bunch of information about things in Tonga in general I figured Tonga's not that big So let's look for a list of universities and see if we can get information straight from them And I did find websites for three universities in Tonga. First the king's international university I mean, it's the king's university. So it must be good, right? Well, look at this beautiful homepage Click on enroll And then this what about the University of the South Pacific? It's actually a really cool project It's a partnership between a bunch of other small island nations in the Pacific to have a single common public university Everything seemed to be going well plenty of information on the website and then this not looking too good Never fear my people because it takes more than a couple of dead ends to keep me from finding what I want to know I went to the next university on my list at an ec Institute and lo and behold Their website works And not only does it work, but it has up-to-date information on what you need to enroll as an international student success Finally, I was really beginning to doubt whether this project would happen or not now I couldn't just take one website and apply that to an entire country I had to get some more information I sent an email to the dean and I asked if I could get an interview with the people from atonisi and they said yes So throughout this interview, you're going to be seeing these two wonderful gentlemen Michael and peter who took the time to talk to me a little bit more about atonisi And the experience of studying in tonga So it's going to be kind of like the uh, canada video except with less hockey jokes pretty much Perhaps the part of the interview that blew my mind the most was this We accept we would accept four and five students, which would actually be 10th grade Yes people you could literally start studying in university in tonga While you're in 10th grade in high school If they wanted to begin full-time in july by remote, that's also possible If you feel like high school doesn't challenge you enough, here's your opportunity But what will you need to get in? Well, let's head over to the pre-rex I'm just gonna stop it right there because we don't care I mean if a student decides a week before we start that they want to come in on zoom Uh, that's fine with us. We don't have any objections to that Basically no pre-rex. I mean there is one little thing that you're gonna have to do which is Prove that you can speak english So with that we'll just head straight on into the language barrier So Tonga was an english protectorate And that does mean that there's a lot of cultural ties to england and therefore the english language In fact, english is the official language of instruction in tonga An iod score of at least six will be good enough to impress at the nisi and probably any other university in tonga Even though everybody knows english to some degree You shouldn't expect to use it in your day-to-day life in tonga The tongan language is a vital part of their community and whenever you're talking about small island nations It's kind of like one big small town where everybody knows each other And so naturally people are going to prefer to communicate in their native language Even though at nisi strives to be a very forward-thinking institution They told me how important local tongan culture is and how much they make an effort To preserve it and encourage their students to partake in it directly The institute has some other divisions. It has a performing arts troupe, which has gone all over the world Bringing up so pong and fiver traditional tongan music and dance all over the world First of the performing arts troupe. We keep the pre-christian dances alive The fiver and the songs and the dances alive And our students will sing they must know 500 traditional songs They live in both worlds and at nisi students are Known for mastering both overall. I would rate the language barrier of studying in tonga as two hakas out of five So tuition in tonga is like extremely affordable Your degree at at nisi institute will cost you significantly less than a degree abroad in most other countries A single course at at nisi cost 1000 panga, which is about 450 dollars Now you need to take 40 courses to get your total of 18 thousand dollars. That's only four thousand five hundred dollars a year But much like we said in the australia video You can only consider the tuition as half of the equation You do have to think about the cost of living. First of all, you have to overcome the problem of finding a place to stay First of all, we do have a student cottage That could house three students then otherwise there are you know, there are places for rent I mean a three a three bedroom house With two bathrooms in a reasonable setting is about one and a half thousand panga a month At any rate, michael and peter reassured me that if you do decide to come to tonga to study They will happily help you find a place to stay Ultimately your living expenses in tonga are probably going to be cheaper than they would be in almost any other country That you go to just because of the fact that prices are not as high as they are in more developed nations So your living expenses aren't too bad and your tuition expenses are really cheap and this is where you live I mean, i'm starting to wonder why more people aren't doing this. We did have something to do with the visas We we are one of eight nations that is covered 19 free But basically life would be completely normal here except there are no foreigners and there's no trouble That's everything else right and that means no hand washing No social distancing. Yeah, we we are effectively closed for physical movement Doesn't that sound wonderful? But like take me there now, please tonga hasn't had a single COVID-19 case yet making it one of only eight countries without any reported cases of COVID-19 Even though you can't get a visa today You could very soon if you're enrolled in at the nisi you could take classes virtually Now when it does come to actually applying for your visa, the government does have a very convenient list of requirements You're going to need a letter of admission from a university You'll have to prove that you've already paid your tuition for the year You also have to show that you have some money for living expenses You'll also have to pay the 57 and 50 cent fee to the government for the privilege of processing your visa If you're 16 and 17 and you don't know what you want to study yet Why don't you call them up and see what they have to offer? Everybody's always asking me about saving time in university. Nobody wants to study one more year than they have to Well, what if you started now so michael peter anything else we should know Tonga has always been I I call it the texas of the south pacific I am a bit shocked at some of the dress codes the women go around at the moment is it's quite it's quite shocking I mean you know strap strap this things. I mean it's absolutely shocking Things do close on sundays. We're still very traditional on that on that account I don't know if you know what cover is do you it's uh from the pepper plant winds up tasting like uh laundry detergent But it does give you a sort of numbing effect. So it kind of passes for like cocaine here If you I mean the ones that I would suggest to come here would would not be the ones who want to study maths and science Uh in a sort of uh Rather academic sort of focused modern sense They need to be someone in the social science areas who are interested Amenities who are interested in culture Interested in a wider experience that wider experience is precisely why I wanted to make this video I realized that if you run up to mom and dad right now and say mom dad. I want to study in tanga They're probably gonna think you're nuts When I told people I wanted to come study in peru. That was the exact same reaction. I got here's the thing That wider experience That different place gave me a completely new perspective on life And it's one of the best decisions I've ever made At the very least you're gonna get good quality education at a good price in a beautiful country At worst I can't even think of the worst-case scenario here Maybe the time difference That's not even an excuse two weeks ago We had a video with satyoga felix who did an interview with us about studying in australia and for a while He's back in lima taking his courses in australia He's able to do it if you're in lima watching this video at 5 p.m Then it's 11 a.m. Tomorrow in tanga You could finish your studies at school take a little break and then log in and take classes at attenece in the evenings Crazy as it sounds sometimes the crazy ideas are the best So if we've been over the past year highly privileged, yes The great universities of the world oxford Cambridge harbored stanford have all had interruptions in their classes little attenece has not Nothing should stop you from at least considering the possibility of taking classes in tanga You could get an idea of what you want to do in your future You could figure out a little bit more of who you are and who you want to be not too many places on earth Are going to offer you that chance and that's why we made this because Sometimes to find cool things you have to look at new places If you would be interested in studying at attenece or you would like to ask us more about studying in tanga You can go to prepwithscore.com You could write us on the instagram page at prepwithscore And thanks again to michael and peter for taking the time to talk to me about their beautiful institute And not only their institute but tanga in general It was seriously a treat and a great opportunity for me to just speak with people who've lived in tanga That's something i never thought i would do in my life So thank you so much for taking the time out of your day to do that for me And i hope that maybe somebody watching this will give attenece a call Make sure you guys subscribe to the channel because every thursday new content comes out I guess it's friday if you're in tanga But if you're still here on our side of the world, you'll see my stuff come out every thursday So make sure you're subscribed to the score channel so you don't miss a video If you got something you want us to do leave it in the comments below and i will see you next time