Well where are you living now? Are you saying that out-of-state tuition is too much, so you're looking to go overseas? Doesn't sound smart with the exchange rate right now, but if you got some scheme on that whatever works. I'd worry most about the language-barrier. You probably dealt with a professor from a foreign country, being in engineering; was it really easier to get knowledge from him/her? In my experience, even when they're super-smart it isn't (hell just the fact that people are super-smart sometimes makes them lousy teachers, but that's another topic). Only thing I can add is did you check out North Carolina State University? I remember them advertising Mechatronics masters when I was in. And they got a engineering masters online course, so as long as you can pay the tuition you don't even have to move.