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Re:ROI on a college degree depends what you study, not where by lintiness on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:39AM (#11628211)
nothing's "free", not even college in european utopia.
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Re:ROI on a college degree depends what you study, not where by kdamken on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:51AM (#11628308)
It's way more "free" in Europe than the US though.
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Re:ROI on a college degree depends what you study, not where by lintiness on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @10:03AM (#11628408)
is it? how does one measure that? do they have some super secret method to running a university more cheaply than the us? is anything sacrificed in so doing? how do reputations stack up?

these are complicated issues, and pretending one's free and the other's an outrageous ripoff is a ridiculous simplification.

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Re:ROI on a college degree depends what you study, not where by umanwizard on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @10:33AM (#11628613)
OECD expenditures on tertiary education per student in 2011: http://imgur.com/5brGGWw [1]

The U.S. is an outlier.

[1] Source: http://www.oecd.org/edu/EAG2014-Indicator%20B1%20(eng).pdf

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Re:ROI on a college degree depends what you study, not where by kdamken on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @12:14PM (#11629376)
Well some quick googling shows that for a lot of EU countries EU students don't have to pay tuition fees:

http://www.studyineurope.eu/tuition-fees

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Re:ROI on a college degree depends what you study, not where by throwaway049 on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @10:30AM (#11628593)
Undergrad tuition is free to the student in some European countries. As you wrote "free", I concede that the cost is picked up by the taxpayer.

http://www.topuniversities.com/student-info/student-finance/...

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