Why are thousands of American students getting free college degrees in Germany?
If the cost of a bachelor’s degree is a little too steep, could Germany be the answer?
Boing Boing reports:
Thousands of American kids are getting free university educations in Germany
German higher education is essentially free, even for foreign students, and many courses are conducted entirely in English.
US student debt now stands at $1.3 trillion. A full semester at a top German university costs $120 — and your student card gets you unlimited free public transit. Full health insurance is $87/month. Germans welcome foreign students in the hopes that they’ll settle in the country and start businesses and provided a skilled workforce. Admission generally requires a 3.0 GPA or better.
At Hunter’s university, the Technical University in Munich, 20% of students are non-German. The University president is keen to have every single graduate programme offered in English, and only in English, by the year 2020.
“You can feel sad and think it’s a pity that we are losing our own mothers’ tongue in the technical disciplines, but that’s the development in the world,” says Wolfgang Herrmann.
He acknowledges that people wanting to study philosophy and other cultural sciences would still have to be taught in German.
Thousands of American kids are getting free university educations in Germany (Boing Boing)
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I’ve been sending my kid to school in Austria for the past three years. Excellent education. Very affordable (not free, but nothing like stateside schools, even state schools). Parents should look at this as a real option.
So it’s like illegal aliens attending the UC system for near free. All they have to do is change the language from English to California’s mother tongue, Spanish and we’re set. American students can go to Mexico, surrender their passport, sneak back into the US and claim illegal status.