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Anonymous #1

you shouldn’t have to pay for university

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I'd like to believe this is an uncontroversial opinion.

But anyway yeah, they manage it in Germany, where even international students don't pay tuition fees, and the only cost you get charged is the semester fee which is just for basically the SU stuff and your student ID and, crucially, a student travel card which gives you free transport at least to the uni in the city. Some places have even enhanced versions that give you free transport across the region! And this is not just buses, it includes the trains and stuff too.

Alas...

Reply 3

emilyfurnival

Original post by artful_lounger

I'd like to believe this is an uncontroversial opinion.
But anyway yeah, they manage it in Germany, where even international students don't pay tuition fees, and the only cost you get charged is the semester fee which is just for basically the SU stuff and your student ID and, crucially, a student travel card which gives you free transport at least to the uni in the city. Some places have even enhanced versions that give you free transport across the region! And this is not just buses, it includes the trains and stuff too.
Alas...

how much is the semester fee tho!!

Reply 4

artful_lounger

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Original post by emilyfurnival

how much is the semester fee tho!!

It's like 150-200 euro a semester. It's even like that for masters degrees! Crazy...

The exception is the region of North Rhine-Westphalia I think which does charge tuition fees for non-EU (or maybe even non-local?) students. A little cheaper than they are here but enough that it's still a consideration if paying out of pocket with no loans to support (whereas 150-200 euro a semester elsewhere in Germany is very reasonable...).