Germany offers free college tuition to U.S. and international students. This is incredible: All German universities are now free to Americans and all other international students.
The last German state to charge tuition at its universities struck down the fees this week. Why are they offering such a generous plan? In explaining why Germany made this move, Dorothee Stapelfeldt, a Hamburg senator, called tuition fees "unjust" and added that "they discourage young people who do not have a traditional academic family background from taking up study. It is a core task of politics to ensure that young women and men can study with a high quality standard free of charge in Germany. " The perks don't end at free tuition: Even before Germany abolished college tuition for all students, the price was a steal. Considering the average student loan debt in the U.S. is $29,400, a lot of U.S. high school students would do well to start learning German.
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If you plan to attend these 13 college and universities, the answer is probably not. Is getting a bachelor's degree still worth the cost? Payscale, a salary data provider, answered this question by comparing the average cost of education to predicted income over 30 years for graduates at 1,060 schools in the United States. It turns out that most schools are good investments -- though Payscale economist Katie Bardaro warns that students should consider individually whether college is worth it for their intended career. At around 3 percent of the schools, however, the return on investment over 30 years is negative, due to some combination of high tuition and low graduate pay. We've highlighted the worst of those schools here: Gallery: 13 Colleges That Aren't Worth The Money. 29 Shocking Facts That Prove That College Education In America Is A Giant Money Making Scam.
By Michael Snyder |Activist Post College education in the United States has become a cruel joke.
We endlessly push our high school kids to invest tens of thousands of dollars and at least four years of their lives to get a college education because they won’t have any sort of a “future” without it. So they sign up for decades of debt slavery and spend years listening to pompous windbags fill their heads with utter nonsense. The sad truth is that most college courses are a total joke and they do very little to actually prepare those students for the real world. I know – I attended public universities in the United States for eight years. Our young people are seduced by the idea of college being a five year party that will provide an automatic ticket into the middle class, but the reality is that the only guarantee is that it is a ticket to serfdom unless you have wealthy parents that are willing to foot the bill for you.
So who is really better off? What about you?