18december

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

That’s good. I’m glad there are ways for people to stay debt free or as debt free as possible. Since I always see student debt being a very big issue in the US in the news.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago

I’m actually from Romania, and for medicine at the most popular school in the country for it here, you’d be paying 15000 lei, or $3143 per year for the 2024-2025 school year as a local. https://umfcd.ro/wp-content/uploads/2024/TAXE_SI_TARIFE_UNIVERSITARE/Taxe%20UMFCD%202024-2025.pdf As an international student studying in English you’d be paying 8500€ per year.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

Cause the quality is not the best, he wanted to go to the US, and we can afford it. Plus the US offers many more opportunities.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 hours ago (8 children)

Yeah, in our country university is free if you get high enough grades in the end of high school exams and then if you maintain high enough grades throughout university. Even if you don’t the tuition is affordable for virtually everybody. Like the equivalent of ~$1k per year for most degrees with some exceptions like medicine. A kid could make that in a month working a summer job.

 

For the record, I’m not American nor live in the US, but I have a 19-year-old son who started attending the University of Chicago this year, studying economics. Just the tuition itself is $70k. My husband and I are lucky enough to be able to afford it - I still believe it’s an outrageous amount of money to attend college.