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nothing's "free", not even college in european utopia.

• throwaway049 10y ago
  Undergrad tuition is free to the student in some European countries. As you wrote "free", I concede that the cost is picked up by the taxpayer. http://www.topuniversities.com/student-info/student-finance/how-much-does-it-cost-study-europe http://www.topuniversities.com/student-info/student-finance/...
• kdamken 10y ago
  It's way more "free" in Europe than the US though.
  • lintiness 10y ago
    is it? how does one measure that? do they have some super secret method to running a university more cheaply than the us? is anything sacrificed in so doing? how do reputations stack up? these are complicated issues, and pretending one's free and the other's an outrageous ripoff is a ridiculous simplification.
    • umanwizard 10y ago
      OECD expenditures on tertiary education per student in 2011: http://imgur.com/5brGGWw http://imgur.com/5brGGWw [1] The U.S. is an outlier. [1] Source: http://www.oecd.org/edu/EAG2014-Indicator%20B1%20(eng).pdf http://www.oecd.org/edu/EAG2014-Indicator%20B1%20(eng).pdf
    • kdamken 10y ago
      Well some quick googling shows that for a lot of EU countries EU students don't have to pay tuition fees: http://www.studyineurope.eu/tuition-fees http://www.studyineurope.eu/tuition-fees