Germany has just recently cancelled all forms of tuition fees within the
country’s higher education system, basically providing all German
students free college education. Today, good news comes from the
European nation as Germany announces that it is extending its tuition-
free college education to all students from the U.S. and around the
world.
While the cost of American college education is on the rise — with
undergraduate tuition ranging from $14,300 for state universities like
UCLA to $37,800 for private non-profit schools like Harvard —
Germany’s former college fees aren’t too expensive to begin with.
Averaging at $630 per semester, universities in Germany offered one of
the cheapest college educations in Europe. Not only was tuition
inexpensive, discounts on food, dormitories, and other necessities are
commonplace among university systems in Germany, with some
institutions even providing free transportation to all its students.
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While the country’s former management of its higher education was
already the envy of many a nation, German legislators still believed
they could do better. CBS News’ Moneywatch quoted Dorothee
Stapelfeldt, a senator from Hamburg, who described tuition fees as
“unjust”, adding that imposing fees on higher education discouraged
people from particular sectors from undertaking the journey of
knowledge.
“[Tuition fees] discourage young people who do not have a
traditional academic family background from taking up study.
And because the campaign for free education was strong, the ruling for
its commencement was swift. Just recently, after a brief ruling by the
senate, it was decided that from this year on, college education in the
country will be free for all students. This week, as the last German
state to abolish tuition fees makes its transition to free education,
Germany announces that it is extending its gift of knowledge to
students from the U.S. and around the world.
German universities do have a request for foreign students who plan to
embrace the country’s offer. Aside from the usual credentials and
records needed for applying to any other universities, a c onversational
fluency of German is a prerequisite for applicants coming from outside
the country. It appears to be an easy ticket towards free education,
until hopefuls realize how difficult it actually is to learn the language.
Fortunately, there are plenty of programs both in Germany and in the
U.S . that offer courses on basic and advanced German.
Germany hosts some of the world’s best universities, including the
University of Heidelberg, which has produced 56 Nobel laureates, and
Leipzig University, which has nine Nobel winners and one current
chancellor, Angela Merkel.
source; http://www.inquisitr.com/1531316/germany-extends-free-college-education-to-all-students-in-the-u-s/