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Confused. Is cash the limit for college attendance or is qualification? I thought Germany had free uni but you had to do reasonably well and proceed towards a

• eesmith 4y ago
  It seems the author doesn't think as many people should be going to university, and the reason people go to university is because credential inflation makes it harder for non-college-graduates to get a job, and more people will go to university if they think it will be cheaper because debt cancellation implies the possibility of future debt cancellation, hence lowering the effective code of going to college.
• hansword 4y ago
  In Germany university is mostly free. There are administrative fees in the range of ~200eu per year, and most universities have a subsidized but mandatory transit pass, which might be another ~400eu per year. There were explicit tuition fees in some states, a decade ago, but since they have been abolished it's usually below 1000eu/year (exception are private universities of course). You need to have finished high school to qualify for university, but if you then get into an unpopular field, that is the only real restriction. More popular fields of study at more popular universities require a good high school diploma, but even there it's possible to sit on a waiting list for a couple of years.