More and more European countries are raising the financial barriers for international students. From the coming academic year onwards, Sweden - with expected yearly tuition fees between 8,000 and 14,000 EUR for non-EU students - will join the league of high-price destinations on the continent. Other European nations that have recently become rather costly for international students are the UK, Denmark and the Netherlands.
The German-speaking countries continue to make only moderate demands on your wallet. Tuition fees in Germany, Austria and Switzerland are still largely nominal, amounting to app. 1,000 EUR a year – both for domestic and international students, no matter which part of the world they come from. Moreover, this low-fee policy applies not only to undergraduate programmes taught in German but also to the vast majority of English-medium graduate courses that are now available in large numbers in Germany and Switzerland.
And things are getting even better: Germany continues to roll out the red carpet to international students by gradually abolishing even nominal tuition fees. The federal state of Hesse (with Frankfurt as its bustling centre) reverted to a 0 EUR policy in the academic year 2008/09, and North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state with one of the densest university landscapes in the world and home to cities like Cologne and Düsseldorf, will do so from 2011/12 onwards.
And, not to forget: Some of Germany’s most dynamic universities are now located in the eastern part of the country, where tuition fees have never been introduced.
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