Higher education in Germany has become free. For foreign students too

A great opportunity to study in Germany came from anyone from all over the world. Since the new academic year 2014/2015, higher education in Germany has become free throughout the country. The last of the seven federal states to abolish tuition fees was ordered by Lower Saxony in December 2013. Dorothea Stapelfeldt, senator of the Committee on Science in Hamburg, called a paid education "social injustice," writes the Times . The senator for science believes that the key policy objective is to provide young people in Germany with the opportunity to study and receive high-quality higher education for free.


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However, for us, this news makes important another. These rules apply to foreign students. Actually, this news got into my field of view because the Americans were actively discussing it , the cost of higher education for which has long been one of the national problems.

An acquaintance, a former German student, shared a couple of important reservations: firstly, in most cases knowledge of the language is required. Secondly - proof of income (what is and live). However, there are also options for studying in English - and in this case, the choice of universities is quite wide. Moreover, the age student for Germany is not new: the average age of a German graduate is 28 years .
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The prices for studying in Germany were low before - 600 euros per semester. German universities make a significant contribution to world science, and news with links to German researchers constantly slips over to Habré: events such as the development of a cheap way of making touchscreen displays , the discovery of complex molecules in interstellar space is hard to miss.

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