Mmmmm, Germany!
My kid is has been going to school in Austria for the past three years. The cost is €8,150 per year ($9,188 at current exchange rate) and that includes tuition, room, and books. Extra is €55 per month for mandatory health insurance, money for food (she mostly cooks in her apartment) and a little money for playing tourist, etc.
I've looked at a number of other schools over there and the tuition is very, very similar...
I went to what is now Darmstadt U.(Technische Hochshule then) in the 70’s under a foreign student quota. My husband at that time was a DOD employee working for Stars & Stripes. It was a terrific experience.
At that time foreign students had to pass a German language proficiency test and to have finished the equivalent of junior college or two years at a four year institution to begin the German Master’s degree program. At that time Germany had nothing similar to a Bachelor’s degree.
Indeed, my wife is from Paris and we selling our home and are moving her and the kids to France next year so they can have 3 years of high school prior to university, 100% due to costs.
Very interesting. Very surprising.
Thanks for posting.
“”My kid is has been going to school in Austria for the past three years””
She must have learned to speak AUSTRIAN before she moved, right - LOL? What do Austrians think of foreigners getting free educations in their country? I know what people think of it here so it just seems odd.
My daughter leaves this fall. The one requirement: you have to pass the German language test at fluent level (C1) in order to get into many of the universities.
He graduated one semester early from UA.
Net savings was about $16,000
Free to the student. Costly to the German taxpayer.
Nothing is free. Someone has paid ... no matter what it is.
Well the kid sure as heck better learn German before going to study in a German or Austrian university. Not many high schools offer German.
Mmmmm, Germany!