Or move to Belgium/Germany where university education costs less than a thousand per year.. And you may enjoy a proper beer as a student.. Afterwards universal health insurance and unionized labour.. All debt free.. Cheers!
Working as a TA pays $15 per hour, distributed twice monthly based on submitted timesheets (alumni are salaried, however).
The US$15/hr TA pay rate is absolute garbage - when I TAed as a 3rd year undergrad in Australia, I was paid double that.
This is why in Bulgaria, Cz and other countries you see locals paying low rates while other Europeans paying private college fees.
That's incorrect. In EU you can't price-discriminate, based on nationality, regardless of the product or service you're offering. Of course, that applies to EU citizens only. Non-EU citizens do indeed pay higher university fees than locals.
Quick Google search: https://www.medicalstudyguide.com/bulgarian-university-tuiti...
Come to think of it, they probably discriminate on the basis of the program language: If you take the English course you have to pay high tuition fees, while if you take the local language program, you don't.
If you're foreigner, haggling at a local flea market, of course it can happen. But in "official" places, this is simply not possible. And yes, that program discriminates based on language. If you take the version in Bulgarian, you'll pay same fees as locals, though you're usually forced to undergo a paid language course before enrolling.
Also “move to Germany” isn’t really something you can just...do.
The quality of education you'll get there is questionable, though
I mean I studied Physics at a good UK Uni but it isn't like one of the best in the world or anything.
Then I did Neuroinformatics at Edinburgh which is really competitive due to their reputation in AI etc.
It was fine, ultimately linear algebra etc. are the same wherever you learn it. I think in less objective and more qualitative fields the reputation of the University etc. counts a lot more.
Why would you think this? From my experience technical universities in Europe do a lot less hand holding and a lot more practical courses than American ones do.
France too, and I suppose most(?) European countries. Many universities have international masters where classes are taught in English. Students come from everywhere, including the US. It's easy to get a student visa.
Technically, there is supposed to be some fairly brutal bandwidth sharing and the speed is not guaranteed in any way but I never had my speedtest drop under 90Mb/s