Graduate / Essay on different programmes (English, Finance, Global Studies) [4]

With this Statement of Purpose, I wish to support my application to higher education in Sweden.

My name is ___, I'm ___ years old. I graduated from The _____ with Bachelor's degree in Finance Management.
My goal is to obtain the chance to engage in these programmes in English. And here is what I think about importance of fluent English in the contemporary world. If we consider all the people from the countries that use English as their official language we can find out that number of people that speak English as their mothertongue is about few hundred million people. And if we add the rest of people that speak English as their second language to that amount, we get over one billion. Tremendous number, isn't it? If you speak it fluently, you may count on a well paid job in many countries. Also, if you're fan of international tourism there's no doubt you have to learn English - it will keep you safe and confident whenever you go. Currently I reside in Sweden where English level among it's inhabitants is quite impressive. The big number of Swedish people would never use dictionary or phrasebook in conversation and speak so clearly, as if they have lived in U.K. or U.S.A. for many years. The amazing thing about education in whole Scandinavia is that it allows people study using English besides native languages of Scandinavian countries. I have studied English in Russia, for 10 years in school and 5 years at the university where my primary course of study was economy, have travelled all over Europe and got plenty of friends with whom we only share English as common language. On the third year of study I moved to Moscow and got my first experience in working in international companies, eventually being promoted and getting the position of branch manager in one of them. Then I successfully graduated university and got a new job at the Svenska Handelsbanken in Moscow which has majority of employees from Sweden, so English has become the only way to communicate with the rest of the staff. That helped me a lot to improve my basic skills and move to another level in language on my degree's field, so since then I felt enough confident to try living and working in Sweden. Now it feels comfortable to use English in a lot of situations instead of my mothertongue Russian, but my professional part still lacks skills and experience. Also, the great interests of world's economy motivate and support me come along the way. Thus, I am willing to study in English really deeply and hoping to reach higher levels step by step, so one day I could impress these people around as well as they impress me. The best is yet to come.