Everyone here at the university is paying their dues for this semester. Most students here have grants, the Millenium Scholarship, or WUE. For many students throughout the entire United States, they are going to be suffering from student debt when they are finally able to graduate with their degree.
In Europe and other countries, the cost of going to school is a lot easier for all students to afford. According to an article written in 2014 by Rick Noack of the Washington Post, the “US college costs have surged by about 500 percent, and tuition fees keep rising. In Germany, they've done the opposite.”
Germany is the top place on Noack’s “7 Countries Where Americans can study at universities, in English, for Free (or almost free).” Most German universities receive funding from the government because they see them as being “excellent institutions.” Americans can apparently go to Germany to get an undergraduate or graduate degree for free. The best part is you don’t even have to speak any German.
While using a website called bachelorportal.eu, I decided to put in the different requirements for my major specifically and tried to find place to where I would be paying either the same amount or less than what I'm paying here at the University of Nevada, Reno.
I searched "Journalism," then put Journalism & Media as my discipline. And then put the language of instruction to English and put “on campus.” For the tuition fee you have to revert everything into Euros. Here in Reno, as a millennium student, I believe my total payment for 15 credits is $12,267 per semester, including school fees.
Bulgaria, $10,800 per year), Anglo-American University (Prague, Czech Republic, $4,949.12 per year), International School of Management (Munich, Germany, $9,898.24 per year), University of Wollongong (Wollongong, Australia, $7,875.25 per year), Dublin Institute of Technology ( Dublin, Ireland, $2,608.41 per year), and Maynooth University (Maynooth, Ireland, $3,374.40 per year).
“I think that finding a way to increase scholarship using tax dollars and grants would help us in our position. Our position is the fact that up and coming generations are being disregarded, education is super valuable for increase success for the nation,” says Shelby Grauberger, UNR grad student.
Many students, after going into the world and trying to pursue their life after college, will be in debt for most of their lives.
A study showed that students who graduated in the spring of 2015 had the most debt ever, according to The Wall Street Journal.
If the government were able to change their ways on education, instead of bringing it completely down and taking funding out of the education, then perhaps we would have more college graduates. Those universities listed above, within those countries they find education the most valuable thing for a person. Those countries have put aside money for their next generation in order to see them achieve success and find a job in something that they can be completely passionate about it. There are many students right now, even at this university, who are scraping by just so that they can have a better life in the future, a higher paying job.
Some students think that a good way to come up with the money is to make marijuana legal and tax it for schools, like what Colorado is doing.
If all of the students that have to take on financial aid went to one of these countries, they most likely wouldn’t need to take out any loans, because their governments have created their own version of “no child gets left behind.”
In some countries, a student pays however much they can afford, based off of their families wealth. Putting just a little something more towards the field of education, instead of drawing back from it, can bring us into a place where we no longer have to say “I can’t afford my education.”
