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They say in Austria you don't even apply. You just turn up at any university and everyone is accepted. If you can't pass the exams you get washed out quite qui
by gandalfian 5y ago
They say in Austria you don't even apply. You just turn up at any university and everyone is accepted. If you can't pass the exams you get washed out quite quickly though.
- ianbooker 5y agoNot sure if that is the case for every institute / subject in Austria, there are entrance exams for medicine in Vienna, as far as I know. But for some universities and some subjects that is also true for Germany.
- vmception 5y agoYeah the downside being that the universities are so crowded that they are very competitive. An educated populace without debt serfs is more important though.
- manmal 5y agoThat's true for some less-attended studies, but wrong for STEM, medicine, economics, psychology, etc. For most of those you have entrance exams (with a literature list to study up front) where only a certain top percentile passes. The first one or two semesters are also quite brutal, to weed out even more underachievers. Once you've mastered that, it's very cheap (or free, if you are an EU citizen) to study here: https://studieren.univie.ac.at/en/tuition-fee/amount-eueeach-citizens/ https://studieren.univie.ac.at/en/tuition-fee/amount-eueeach... Living in Vienna is also quite affordable, at least compared to Berlin or London.