Yeah sure it is. Get your undergraduate or even your Master's in EE (it will be amazingly cheap), then go get your PhD in North America (PhDs are paid, so no money worries). But staying long term? Unless you become an entrepreneur and do something like BitDefender - a product developped with local costs but sold to a global audience, I don't think it's worth developping a career in Eastern Europe yet. BTW, the BitDefender guys were in Bucharest, Romania. Stopped following, so I don't know what ther're up to now. Their story sure was an inspiration.