Do you have to pay fror college/university in your country?

You are lucky that you have free universities to go to. In my country, everything has to be paid for unless you are awarded with a scholarship. We have government linked universities as well as the private ones. The private ones are much more expensive than the government ones.

Oh yes we have to pay , you people over there are very lucky , my father was struggling to send me to college ,. enjoy the lucky life u all have , i still want to study but cant afford so thinking of getting a job now.. Regards Harry

In my country India, No, not necessarily everywhere. There are government colleges where you get free education. But, it is rather too tedious to get into some of the government colleges, especially the ones that run professional courses like Engineering, medical, etc. The competition is severe:( However, for professional courses like medicine, dentistry, Engineering, etc - you still need to pay a small amount of fees despite joining a government institution. As for the general degree courses like B.A, B.com, B.sc( bachelor of Arts, commerce and science respectively) the education is completely free.

I have went to free college about ten years before and only living fee needed at that time. That colledge is a normal university. But at that time, other kinds of universities are cheap too. But those good days had gone away long long ago. Nowdays the college fee has become one of the three most heavy burdens in my country. The other two is house price and medical cost.

of course.... yes.i know not only here i think it is around the world has a tuition fee.

I come from china.In my conntry,we must pay for the college education.But,we can aply scholar to help us complete the college education.

No in hundreds (when I was studying in college 3 decades ago, it was only in hundreds), it is not in thousands (a decade ago), it is in hundred thousands of rupees (1$ = Rs.40). If one wants to study an engineering course (4 years), if he is not selected under merit category (high scores in Pre-University exams), one has to shell down 5 to 6 thousand USD. If one has to study medical, he has to makea down payment of $20000 to $30000. Of late, there is tremendous pressure on PreUniversity Students (students have to study 2 years in preuniversity after completing 10 years in school) to secure high marks, so that they can get merit seat in engineering and medical colleges. Of course it costs very less for ordinary graduate courses in Economics, Civics, History, Geography, Sociology, English Literature etc. There is less demand. Another area where there is heavy demand is Chartered Accountancy course. The course is quite tuff. Even the Business Management seat in a college is prohibitively exhorbitant for an average person who wants his children to take up such courses. Education is really a big business in India.

In Romania the situation is exactly the way you described it to be in Poland.

you have that in your country?? wow. that's nice. here in our country there are public universities where they offer a lot of scholarships which provide the students their tuition fees, book allowances, stipends/allowance, board and lodging. however, those are not readily available to all. a student should have to apply first and he or she is lucky if accepted. ideally, recipients of scholarships should be those less fortunate. but somehow, these scholarships are being taken advantage by the rich and the can-afford. some students would look for a sponsor, a politician perhaps, to provide scholarship. but usually, those students should be smart and have very high grades or very talented in some sports or skills at something. nothing comes for free here. ^.^

Right now I belive the average 4 year university costs around $44,000.00 for 4 years. That is for a public college. Private and Elite colleges can cost up to $129,000.00 for 4 years. I am going to community college and it costs $39 per credit hour. My tuition for one semester is $507 and that is before books, lab fees and supplies. My advisor told me to budget at least $1200 for the sememster and that is just for tuition and books. Thank God for my Pell Grant and my work-study. With those two items I will be able to pay for the community college. My husband's school cost $565 per credit hour. He is an upper level student. His tuition for a semester was almost $7000 before books. He got a Pell Grant, a Texas Education Grant and a student loan. We will owe almost $10K in student loans when he graduates.

In my country India we need to spend huge amount for education..starting from kindergarden we need to pay fees for studying..there are also free educational institutions run by the government but they dont give quality education except very very few schools and colleges..only those people who cannot afford money for educating their children study in these schools.. to pursue university degree the colleges offer merit seat for students scoring top marks in higher secondary level..otherwise parents had to spend lot of money to get a degree from university for their children.. I got a merit seat in one of the most reputed colleges in my city because of my scoring good marks in school.

Hi Pompon. Here in the Philippines, you have to pay for enrolling a child in grade school, high school and college. Yes!We almost have to pay for everything here. That's why there's a high percentage of kids who even didn't reach high school because of poverty. If there are schools who offers free schooling, I guess those are non-profit organizations who really want to offer their services to make sure that some kids will still be educated. But when it comes to college, I still haven't heard of a school who offers free education. But I do know that if a person would like to get free college education, they have to apply for a scholarship. And scholarship grants can be very difficult to handle. They have to maintain a specific grade and once they drop a point below that grade, they will lose that scholarship.

i'm from india and i studied in a university called "university of calicut" where i didnt have to spend a penny for my entire college education. But i think now things have changed from what it was when i was studying. Now that india is open to the world and things are not as laid back as it once used to be!

Hi!Pompon, I think you are lucky in your country. I am from China, you know,with its largest population in the world, our government can not afford free university education. Most of the university fee are paid by the parents of each family. As for me, I have to do some part-time job to support myself, because the scholarship given by university is too little to make up the daily cost.

We have free education in England up until age 16 and then we cango to college up to 19 for free if it is full time. Anything else wehave topay for. I think some universities do scholarships but mostly you have to pay and, unless you are on certain state benefits then you have to pay for education after age 19.

Yes. Here in the Philippines we have to pay for education. And it gets more and more expensive too. Every year there are tuition fee increases. It's very frustrating.

I graduated from college 4 years ago. My family payed all fee for my whole studing from kindergarten to college and for my sister and my brother . It's really not easy for my parents to finish it . My family nearly use all of their money for our tuition. My dad is a teacher . His all salary just use for our tuition . After all we have graduated from college . Then my parents got nothing but old . In China , the tuition is high and is really a huge burden for every family especially for countryside family . The most poor family can't let their children to go to college/ university . I just remember that when I graduated from middle school , just only had 3-4 students in my classmate can have money to go to college . It's really a bad situation like this . So few children can get better education . In recent years , China had changed its education system somewhere . For example:1 charging free for compulsory education slowly from countryside to city ( from primary to high school ) 2. Can lend the money from bank easily at lower interest . 3. get some scholarship from school . I wonder whether it's helpful and beneficial too much to countryside people . You know where people still got little chance to get high education because their earning is so small and little . Now, In China , The average fee for college/university is US$1290.32(or RMB10000)/year and even more above . But the family earning in countryside is US$600(RMB4500)/year . And how could them got this money ? That is this family must have one person go to mordern city to search a job . But get a job is not easy for them because their poor knowlegde and their age . I know it's not easy for our goverment to charge free in education because our large population but I hope they can consider more policies for countryside people . They're now changing to poor and poor .

Here in Italy we pay for the college and that costs about 1300$ per year and that would be some 1900$ year but if we do well on our exams they give us back more than half of that money. I think that's great.And if you are really good our university even gives you a scholarship that can get as high as 4500euros, 6600$ so that covers more or less all the expenses for the rent food electricity water heating everything. But you have to be really good to get the scholarship.

I'm from china. As far as i know,students have to pay if they want to go to universities or colleges.A few students can not afford the fee,and the governmet has the loan-policy,by which students can apply loans form banks,and only one half of the interests are needed to pay,because the government pay the other half. And students are expected to pay money back after they graduated.So,i think this is a good method to solve the problem.but if it is free,it will be much better,because many more young man can go to have higher education.