That'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 literatu

That'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.