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gordon wrote:

programmerinprogress wrote: Oh! and if you live in Scotland, university is free! (actually loads of stuff is free in Scotland, funded by the UK government) But I don't live in Scotland.

I do

I'm fairly sure of that fact, but just to make sure, is it? (from what people have told me and where i've read it seems plausible)

programmerinprogress wrote:

gordon wrote:

programmerinprogress wrote: Oh! and if you live in Scotland, university is free! (actually loads of stuff is free in Scotland, funded by the UK government) But I don't live in Scotland.

I do

I'm fairly sure of that fact, but just to make sure, is it? (from what people have told me and where i've read it seems plausible)

Yes the government pay university tuition fees for universities in Scotland. Which means that you only really have living costs to worry about.

programmerinprogress wrote: Oh! and if you live in Scotland, university is free! (actually loads of stuff is free in Scotland, funded by the UK government) But I don't live in Scotland.

Yeah, I went to Hogwarts in northern Scotland, it was totally free :P


srsly though, mooch if at all possible. I thought I was so cool getting my own place at 18, but it just made me spend all my time working, so school fell behind and now I'm 26 and still not done with college.

Ew. Texas.

$50k-65k sounds spot on, maybe a bit less depending on what you're doing.

Maevik wrote:
srsly though, mooch if at all possible. I thought I was so cool getting my own place at 18, but it just made me spend all my time working, so school fell behind and now I'm 26 and still not done with college.

That's why we get a lot more support in the UK, I think the idea is that we get part time jobs (they even have vacancies for uni staff in most places) but nearly everyone gets some grant, and everyone can get some loans that are a lot easier to pay back than some of the stuff you hear about in the US, i'm living on campus the first year, and that seems ok because we do get financial support in the uk.

programmerinprogress wrote: That's why we get a lot more support in the UK, I think the idea is that we get part time jobs (they even have vacancies for uni staff in most places) but nearly everyone gets some grant, and everyone can get some loans that are a lot easier to pay back than some of the stuff you hear about in the US, i'm living on campus the first year, and that seems ok because we do get financial support in the uk.

Yeah, it even used to be that if you lived near a university you could take out a student loan(with a low interest rate) live at home and then shove the loan in a high interest bank account and make a profit. Interest rates are much lower now though so that won't work at the moment.

gordon wrote: Yeah, it even used to be that if you lived near a university you could take out a student loan(with a low interest rate) live at home and then shove the loan in a high interest bank account and make a profit. Interest rates are much lower now though so that won't work at the moment.

Um, that doesn't sound like something you post on the internet... More like a shh

I had a friend (actually a friend of my wife) who put a down payment on a house right out of college from doing that very thing. He took out the loans, then worked his way through college on his own. He made something like 30k O_o

I pay about 1400€ per year at the RWTH Aachen, Germany.

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