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Re:Germany has one of the lowest tuition fees by cpitman on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @12:46PM (#28606917)
The average student loan debt for a US undergraduate degree is ~$37k, which lines up with that $9k/year.

When people talk about tons of student loan debt, they are invariably including graduate students getting professional degrees, like law and medicine. The average student loan debt after medical school is ~266k. But compared to the earning potential of a doctor (starting salaries between $200k and $500k), that isn't some unrecoverable debt load. The only people really screwed are the ones who decide they don't want to be a doctor a couple years in.

https://educationdata.org/average-student-loan-debt#by-educa...

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Re:Germany has one of the lowest tuition fees by chrisseaton on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @12:54PM (#28607005)
Right - so in the UK the $12k a year also covers medicine etc.
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Re:Germany has one of the lowest tuition fees by NovemberWhiskey on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @01:53PM (#28607680)
Right but the structure of professional education for things like medicine and law is completely different in the UK from the US so an apples-to-apples comparison isn't easily possible.
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