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Re:The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much by adventured on Sunday April 05, 2015 @03:07AM (#9323375)
Sweden also doesn't have universities that match up to the US when it comes to a ~$50k tuition tier. $50,000 per year is a lot, and buys you access to the best universities on earth, most of which are in the US. Harvard's tuition is around $44,000 for example.
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Re:The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much by xorcist on Sunday April 05, 2015 @05:50AM (#9323610)
Sweden is a country with the population of New York, but have one (sometimes two) universitites in a global top ten ranking of their respective subjects. So if you must compare to something US, do it with a large city.
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Re:The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much by rayiner on Sunday April 05, 2015 @10:28AM (#9324102)
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-ranki....

Sweden has two universities in the top ~100. Boston has three. New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco, and Pittsburgh have two, mostly in the top 50.

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Re:The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much by xorcist on Sunday April 05, 2015 @01:47PM (#9324766)
That's because your source is coarse grained. Look at a list of specific subjects, in my example medicine (and an old list of maritime biology institutions, hence "sometimes"), and you'll find the counter examples.

But hey, I'm cherrypicking data here, so it's not relevant to anything else than as a counter data point to a very broad and wrong statement.

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Re:The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much by benihana on Sunday April 05, 2015 @08:47AM (#9323883)
How about don't compare a European nation to a large city, do it to the US equivalent: A state.
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Re:The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much by fwn on Monday April 06, 2015 @06:13AM (#9327346)
While this might be true for maybe population size or territory, the govermental structure is completely different. ..also there are huge cultural differences (language; diff. social path dependencies etc.)

I don't think the similarities justify comparing US states to European countries.

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Re:The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much by xorcist on Sunday April 05, 2015 @02:08PM (#9324834)
No, you shouldn't. European nation states bear little resemblance to federal states, neither historically, culturally or economically.

The point was not that comparisons between states and cities are somehow more valid, but to illustrate that the differences in higher education are most likely due to the vast population difference.

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Re:The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much by endzone on Sunday April 05, 2015 @09:51PM (#9326055)
but obviously university rankings are only weakly related to the quality of undergrad education. US universities are the "best" at research... not hard to understand
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