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Re:American students head to Germany for free college by bpires on Thursday April 02, 2015 @08:39AM (#9310262)
It is not about it being completely free. The whole point is how 235€ or even 1000€ per semester is nothing compared to tens of thousands americans pay in tuiton. Top universities in the US like MIT and Stanford charge over $40000 per year. With half of that you could comfortably live as a student in Germany for a year with all expenses paid. I live as a student in Germany on 650€/mo. That's less than $10000 a year.
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Re:American students head to Germany for free college by k__ on Thursday April 02, 2015 @09:03AM (#9310405)
The professors always told us, that the US is much more expensive with their education, but the people know this and have many options to save this money till the children are old enough to study, so it shouldn't be so bad...
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Re:American students head to Germany for free college by wyclif on Thursday April 02, 2015 @06:43PM (#9313621)
Is that supposed to make Americans feel better about going into crushing educational debt? Articles like this make me think I should be packing up and heading to Germany ;-)
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Re:American students head to Germany for free college by MaximillianII on Thursday April 02, 2015 @11:54AM (#9311468)
German comma detected above.
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Re:American students head to Germany for free college by k__ on Thursday April 02, 2015 @12:07PM (#9311569)
lol

I don't even know how to set commas right in German, let alone in English...

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Re:American students head to Germany for free college by mhurron on Thursday April 02, 2015 @09:18AM (#9310486)
Funny guy.
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Re:American students head to Germany for free college by legulere on Thursday April 02, 2015 @10:10AM (#9310776)
Until recently we paid 500€ in Bavaria per semester additionally to the around 50€ we still have to pay and abolishing it made quite the difference, especially to people whose parents don't earn that much.
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Re:American students head to Germany for free college by fnordfnordfnord on Thursday April 02, 2015 @12:50PM (#9311851)
May I ask how much a student should expect to pay for housing and food per semester?
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Re:American students head to Germany for free college by lorenzhs on Friday April 03, 2015 @08:14AM (#9315420)
Depends a lot on where and how you live, but 400-600€ should suffice easily if you're on a budget.
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Re:American students head to Germany for free college by eru on Friday April 03, 2015 @11:50AM (#9316515)
To clarify: the 400-600 Euro is per month, not per semester. Bavaria is one of the more expensive ('cause rich) states. If you are willing to live in the East (hey, Berlin!), you can get by on less.
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