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Western Europeans seem to have figured out how to get a good, affordable college education without this sort of thing. Some Europeans I talked to said the gove

by Mc91 4y ago

Western Europeans seem to have figured out how to get a good, affordable college education without this sort of thing. Some Europeans I talked to said the government even gives them a per diem for spending money or what have you while they go to college. They don't seem to have onerous debt. Just like high medical costs, or school shootings (nineteen children were just killed by a gunman at a school in the US, for the Europeans unaware) and so forth, this seems to be a mostly US specific problem.

onlyrealcuzzo 4y ago
Look at the cost of private colleges in the EU compared to the US. It's roughly what you would expect. The difference between the EU and the US is mostly who pays for college - not how much it costs.
- pif 4y ago
  If I understand correctly, the main difference is that in the EU you don't need to go to a private college.
  - endisneigh 4y ago
    You don’t need to in the United States either.
- dividedbyzero 4y ago
  Private Universities are in totally different niches over here (at least in Germany); they either cater to the elites (and sell high-level networking) and can charge pretty much whatever, or serve as a plan B for those kids who can't make it in the public system but have parents willing to buy a degree (also expensive) or in very narrow niches (there are some catholic ones I think), those tend to be cheaper. Since the public system is very good, there's little incentive to go to a private University otherwise. I don't think any of them charge as much as a good US college would, by a fair margin. Might be different in other EU countries, but I don't think it's that different. Edit: And I would be extremely surprised if cost per student was that much higher in the public system than what I know people in one of the "plan B" private universities got charged, economies of scale and all that.
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by Mc91 4y ago

onlyrealcuzzo 4y ago

Look at the cost of private colleges in the EU compared to the US. It's roughly what you would expect. The difference between the EU and the US is mostly who pays for college - not how much it costs.

pif 4y ago
If I understand correctly, the main difference is that in the EU you don't need to go to a private college.
- endisneigh 4y ago
  You don’t need to in the United States either.
dividedbyzero 4y ago
Private Universities are in totally different niches over here (at least in Germany); they either cater to the elites (and sell high-level networking) and can charge pretty much whatever, or serve as a plan B for those kids who can't make it in the public system but have parents willing to buy a degree (also expensive) or in very narrow niches (there are some catholic ones I think), those tend to be cheaper. Since the public system is very good, there's little incentive to go to a private University otherwise. I don't think any of them charge as much as a good US college would, by a fair margin. Might be different in other EU countries, but I don't think it's that different. Edit: And I would be extremely surprised if cost per student was that much higher in the public system than what I know people in one of the "plan B" private universities got charged, economies of scale and all that.

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