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Yet another reason to make higher education universal and free. Just like where I live, Sweden.
by parbo 17y ago
Yet another reason to make higher education universal and free. Just like where I live, Sweden.
- gaius 17y agoYou pay no taxes in Sweden?
- jjs 17y agoI pay no taxes in Sweden.
- dublinclontarf 17y agoSo you don't spend any money whatsoever, therefore avoiding VAT on the purchase of everyday items....like food?
- tokenadult 17y agoJust how universal is higher education in Sweden? Can all people who desire to attend the best university in Sweden enroll if they wish, or are there entrance requirements for that university?
- Emore 17y agoAnyone can attend any university (with the exception of a couple of private ones, mainly within marketing and design). This includes medicine, law and business. The only requirements are high school grades and/or a public "university entrance"-exam.
- tokenadult 17y agoWhat is the base acceptance rate for persons who take the university entrance examination?
- Emore 17y agoI'm not quite sure what you mean by "base acceptance rate". But the universities usually accept around 50% based on high school grades, 25% based on the entrance exam and a further 25% on mixed backgrounds (professional experience, prior university credits etc). The numbers themselves differ between universities. If you meant something else, I'm happy to explain that too :)
- tokenadult 17y agoDoes the entire relevant age group in Sweden apply to university, or do only some students who complete secondary schooling apply for further schooling? The base acceptance rate for any one university is the number of students who are admitted divided by the number who applied. (In the United States, that number is just above 7 percent at some of the most highly desired universities, which receive almost 30,000 applications but admit only just more than 2,000 students.) Some universities in the United States have a base acceptance rate above 90 percent, so on that basis I suppose one could claim that university schooling is "universal" (that is, universally available) here too. More than 500 schools of higher education in the United States have explicit policies of open admission, meaning that they will admit ALL applicants without any requirements beforehand (except possibly completion of high school or residence in the state where the college is located). What exactly does it mean for higher schooling to be both universal and free?