N/A = keine Studiengebühr in diesem Land (Durchschnitt nicht anwendbar)
Die Daten stammen aus dem Jahr 2019. Es ist wahrscheinlich, dass die durchschnittlichen Gebühren seitdem leicht gestiegen sind.
Länder ohne Studiengebühren können dennoch andere Gebühren erheben.
Zur besseren Lesbarkeit heranzoomen.
Von AgonizingFatigue
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Source seems to be shit. In Romania it should be listed as mostly free
I can’t see the original source (the source of the linked source) but some numbers are surprising. I wonder how the „average“ tuition is calculated.
Hungarians are also going broke it seems
Hungarian and UK governments do not want normal citizens having a high education
In Austria it used to be 20€/ semester, i think it may be like 25 now? Don’t really know why it’s „N/A“.
Bad map.
According to the source, the grey countries are not N/A but zero.
For Ireland, >45% of new college entrants receive a grant/ fee support from the government.
For many/ most students, this means that they don’t pay anything.
Source:
* https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/fp/fp-eossr/educationandotheroutcomesforsusisupportrecipients2012-2022/
this is stupid for Bosnia. Yeah uni might cost you 1000€ per year but only if you are below threeeshold. Then it isl something like 50€
Spain is complicated because education is not a state wide thing, but specific to each autonomous region. In mine, Andalusia, it was entirely free as long as you passed. In other places like Madrid or Catalonia I heard it is quite expensive.
I studied in Croatia and Sweden and both were free. In Croatia I only had to pay a small processing fee when I was enrolling in the first year, full time students on public universities don’t pay any tuition fees. I don’t know where they’re getting this figure of 68€.
The number for Romania is dead wrong.
Tuition fees in Romania vary between 800 and 1200 euros for all domains except for medicine. Medicine tuition fee is indeed 4000 euros.
I don’t understand why someone would plot a legend that increases downwards.
Spain actually varies from region to region.
In Galicia, for example, it’s free as long as you pass subjects.
Also, in Spain as a whole, around 30% of students are exempt from paying tuition (below certain level of family income, you are spared if you pass subjects and you also get and additional grant)
Wild that England is so so high and Scotland is free.
Je tiens à souligner qu’en france l’ecole publique est 100% gratuite. Ce sont les ecoles privées qui sont payantes
Wouldn’t be a map anymore but I’d be intrigued to see this plotted against participation rates.
I know you say these are old data that have increased slightly, but for the Netherlands tuition fee in 2025/26 is €2601. That’s an increase of 26%. I wouldn’t say that’s slightly more.
So much bullshit. In Hungary it can go up to that amount (though not per semester and only for maybe medical school)? There’s a huge quota for tuition fee studying – granted you meet certain criteria, high points on high school leaving exams (equivalent of A levels or GCSE). I got both my BA and MA for free – even had scholarship cause of my high grades at uni.
In italy if you have a low mid income you don’t really pay.
Wrong for Serbia, only few select cousres have such high fees and only in Belgrade, where majority of univeristy cousres are free and based of the rankings of university enterance exams. Like when I was in Uni for school of electrical engineering 500 spots were free, no tuition. with 100 paid spots for those who didn’t rank well in the exams
Either someone did bad math or are counting private instuitutions which are diploma printing farms and everyone jokes about them here. Or „on paper cost“ that no one actually pays multiplied by number of spots without accounting for tuition free spots
“In Hungary the annual tuition at a public university may exceed 15,000 euros. Only 32 percent of the students pay tuition that averages 1,428 euros for a year at a 1st-degree level and 1,552 for a year at the 2nd-degree level.”
How is 15000 the average, the source is shit.
Something I never quite understood is that it seems that all anglophone countries have insanely high tuition costs compared to almost any other country/region. Whether it’s the UK, Australia or the US. Why is that?
In Romania there are 2 kinds of University “spots”: free (fără taxă) and paid (cu taxă). If you have decent grades, you will make the free spots.
Public university here in Andalucia is very affordable as long as you pass your subjects, they introduced a program here during my time at college that makes it so that for each subject you pass, you get a free one next course, and it is transferable to your masters too. You would need to pay your 1st year and some administration costs on the following ones. If you were top of your class on the last year of high school or if your family is in a lower income bracket you can also get the first year for free.
65-80€ semester fee in Norway.
However if you are from outside EU/EEA you must show proof of funding for living expenses per annum (13,000€) + a 2500-15000€ (depending on institution and study) in study fees.
Definitely wrong data for Italy and Switzerland. Don’t buy this map.
In Serbian state universities students can study for free if they have good enough results. In the first year it’s roughly 50/50% free vs paying students, but in total it’s around 40/60%
In Romania there is nowhere that much. It’s one of those made-up graphs again.
that’s maximum in italy, not average – or average of maximums in unis
it’s income adjusted
In England we are told to think of student loans as a tax as there is no way we can ever pay them off in full realistically.
In Romania, my mother went to a private university around 2019 and only paid around 1000 euro per year.
If you go to a state university (which is considered better quality), you pay nothing unless it’s your second time going to college.
I studied my degree in Spain, and they gave me a grant the second year that was basically „don’t fail a course, and we will pay for everything except paperwork“. I didn’t get it the first year because I didn’t do the paperwork on time.
So. While this might be the average entry tuition fee, it will probably be lower on average.
The Spain number is misleading most people in Spain don’t pay at all, only wealthy people and students who have failed a substantial amount of their courses have to pay that amount
What a fake map. I balkans it is free for regular students
American ancestor cry