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Whether you are applying for a job, school admission, internship or scholarship both home abroad, there is almost a 100% chance that you would be asked to submit a CV or resume.

A CV or resume is the first professional image you paint of yourself to your prospective employer or admissions´ officer. I do get a lot of emails about how to create one so I made a list of websites with beginner-friendly templates for creating a CV or resume. These sites have both free and paid template plans but I promise you, the free plans are enough for your projects. Here they are:

EuropassCV: this is great for applications within the European union and Europe in general. Apart from a CV template, they also have a Cover letter template, Europass Cover Letter.

CakeResume: This is a good CV template for creatives who want to add images, videos, slides etc.. It works well for other professionals too.

ResumeNerd: This is a great resume builder for early career applicants, internship and school applications. They also have cover letter builder, cover letter template and formats.

StandardResume: If you have a LinkedIn account and you want to create a CV effortlessly using your profile information on LinkedIn, then this is for you. This resume template allows you to import your professional profile and it saves time.

KickResume: This is an AI-assisted resume builder, it also comes with free cover letter templates.

Wepik: This is a free resume or CV builder which allows you to create a e fully customizable professional resume by downloading their free templates. They also have free cover letter templates.

ResumeCoach: This is an AI-enabled, fast CV builder with beautiful functional templates.

Resume.io: This CV builder pride themselves in delivering professional field-tested resume templates that gets noticed by the employers.

Canva: canva is a free graphical design and editing website but the offer free resume and cover letter templates.

Nursing is fast becoming a sought-after occupation and in recent times the demand for nurses have soared to astronomical heights. One of the problems students, especially English-speaking students seeking to study abroad have in finding the right nursing programmes to apply for is finding affordable universities with English-taught programmes.

In many popular native English-speaking countries, tuition fee for nursing programmes can be as high as 15,000 euros to 40,000 euros or even more per academic year. This amount might be out of reach and discouraging for many students who cannot afford it.

European universities are well recognized and respected all over the world for their high standard of education and getting a degree from a good European university is a right step in your career destination and getting it for a fraction of what it would usually cost in other countries is even better.

These countries listed below are part of the European Union, this means that after graduation, students can freely work in any of the 28 EU countries without writing rigorous licensing exams. Furthermore, the location of these countries as Schengen member states means that students can freely travel to and enjoy holidays in the 26 Schengen member states and other countries in Europe without the need to apply for a visa and this makes student life even more interesting.

Here are 7 European countries with low-cost tuition fee:

Finland

Lapland University of Applied Sciences

Tuition fee: 8000 euros (opportunity for a 50% tuition fee scholarship exists)

Programme duration: 3.5 years

2. Novia University of Applied Sciences

Tuition fee: 8000 euros

Programme duration: 3.5 years

3. Arcada University of Applied Sciences

Tuition fee: 5000 euros

Programme duration: 3.5 years

4. Centria University of Applied Sciences

Tuition fee: 8500 euros (opportunity for a 50% tuition fee scholarship exists)

Programme duration: 3.5 years

International students have right to work 25 hours a week during the semester and full-time during holidays while studying in Finland.

Hungary

University of Pécs

Tuition fee: 5800 euros

Programme duration: 4 years

2. University of Szeged

Tuition fee: 6600 euros

Programme duration: 4 years

3. Semmelweis University

Tuition fee: 7000 euros

Programme duration: 4 years

International students have right to work 20 hours a week during the semester and full-time during holidays while studying in Hungary.

Lithuania

Šiauliai State University of Applied Sciences

Tuition fee: 4000 euros

Programme duration: 3.5 years

2. Lithuanian University of Health Sciences

Tuition fee: 4300 euros

Programme duration: 4 years

3. Klaipeda State University of Applied Sciences

Tuition fee: 2800 euros

Programme duration: 3.5 years

International students have right to work 20 hours a week during the semester and full-time during holidays while studying in Lithuania.

Spain

Universitat Internacional de Catalunya

Tuition fee: 7500 euros

Programme duration: 4 years

International students have right to work 20 hours a week during the semester in Spain.

Portugal

University of Minho

Tuition fee: 6500 euros

Programme duration: 4 years

International students have right to work 20 hours a week during the semester and full-time during holidays while studying in Portugal.

Italy

University Of Palermo

Tuition fee: 156-2400 euros (Tuition fee exemption exists for select low-income international students)

Programme duration: 3 years

International students have right to work 20 hours a week during the semester and full-time during holidays while studying in Italy.