I strongly recommend studying abroad. For one, the US is too involved with its own film culture to offer you any depth in understanding other film cultures (yes, they exist). Even the most prestigious film depts. are ossified at worst, anemic and nerdy at best. Get out there and see what other people are doing in cinema: it will improve your understanding of American Cinema, of your own cultural brand of filmmaking, and buttress the nascent aspirations you have. At the very least you may develop a respect for the unobserved potential in cinema that dwells in the cultural beyond. Make sure you have time to work while you're studying. One can learn more in a day from a good director (yes, they exist) than in years at some institution that has suckered you into paying tuition on the false pretense that anybody can aid you in becoming a filmmaker but yourself.

I am eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see.
Dziga Vertov
(not pretentious! Just a simple fact that needs endless deciphering and interpretation)