I am about to enter my final year at University (PPE at Oxford), and I am considering trying to do post-graduate study in Latin America. The aim would be principally to improve my Spanish and to experience a different culture, although the academic stimulation would also be very positive.
I have looked everywhere for information on universities/scholarships etc.; there is not much available at all and I would be tremendously grateful for any advice on good unis to go to/sources of funding for foreign students. Are Argentina and Mexico the best options? or would somewhere like Chile or Colombia be worth a try?
The Universidad Torcuato di Tela in Buenos Aires has a very good reputation both in Argentina and internationally for social sciences, particularly Economics. It has exchange partnerships with Sciences Po and other well know universities around the world. It is a private university so you wont have to put up with constant strike action and underfunding that plagues the public universities in Latin America - it still wont be too expensive though once you convert the pesos into GBP. You can review the available programmes of study at http://www.utdt.edu/
Mmm, Mexico and Brasil are the best options, but since you don't want to learn portuguese, I'd said Mexico, Argentina or Chile. It really depends on what you want to study.
I studied at Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile... Also has a very good reputation, particularly the School of Architecture and School of Economics (the latter I think because it has had some very strong ties to the economist Milton Friedman in the past).