Poland has both paid and free universities, state-run universities are free (but just for the daily courses, there are also evening courses and weekend courses

Poland has both paid and free universities, state-run universities are free (but just for the daily courses, there are also evening courses and weekend courses that are paid). Free courses are paid by taxes, and universities have a limit on how much students they can admit on paid courses depending on how much they admit on free courses. There are also private universities with just paid courses, but they are much worse quality (they admit almost anoyone for money, so better students go to the state universities to study for free, and worse students only get admited to the paid ones). The end result is - almost everybody go to the university and do M.A. in something. The education is usually OK, but not great (especially on the worse universities). Everybody have M.A. so it isn't advantage in the job market, just a requirement (there were postman job offerings requiring M.A. for example :) ). The problem is - Polish universities don't do much science, they are mostly for education, people call them M.A. factories.