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Do not underestimate the price of taxes to pay for said education. It probably all comes out about the same. This assumes you also work and pay taxes to the entity that provided your education.

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It's not close to the same. If you divide (public:private expenditures on tertiary education as % of GDP) by (tax rate as % of GDP), it's .029 : .005 for France, but in the US, it's .042 : .067.

http://statlinks.oecdcode.org/962012031P1G060.XLS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tax_revenu...

Not for an individual as not everyone has the necessary qualifications to study at a university but nevertheless everyone has to pay taxes that finance the education of those that do.

Well, not everyone pays the same amount of tax. People that studied at university probably pays more tax on average that those that didn't. You can also argue that everybody benefits from living in an educated society, even if they didn't study themselves.

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