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or Germany, where the only cost you might have is for the public transport ticket or something like that, and even this is often optional…I am actually curious why there are not so many students from the USA in German universities? Or is this due to language?

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Foreign students usually don't fall under the same funding and have to pay full price, while EU citizens are entitled to the same level of support as localssl.

Which leads to fun times where English had to pay max UK rate at Scottish universities but EU citizens paid the same as Scots.

Except for Baden-Württemberg, which has tuitions for non-EU-students (1.5k€ per semester afaik), it is irrelevant whether you are German, EU-citizen or from somewhere else. The only tuitions you might have is for studying too long.

IIRC Americans study free in Germany, you are right that it is unusual in Europe where the free tuition only applies to EU nationals and residents.

I assume this is because the US is not an EU member, so studying in Germany is not under the same conditions for them as for other EU members.

Also, Germany is somewhat difficult to navigate if you don't speak German, since you reach many roadblocks where people don't speak English (this is different in Denmark, but Denmark's nationalist party has abolished bachelor studies in English, so much for that).

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