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Originally Posted by gunnels
I have a question for tore, the monkey, and anybody living in Nordic European countries.
Is it true that tertiary education is free to both citizens and foreigners in many Scandinavian countries? If so, is how difficult are the entrance exams? Are there courses offered in English?
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I assume tertiary education is the same as higher education(?). It is almost free here in Norway. There's an entrance fee of about 100 dollars each semester which gets you your semester card, but that's all you really have to pay. In addition, you can get a students loan from the government and, if you pass your exams, you only have to pay back 60%. So, if you get 50 000 dollars student loan over the years, that means the government will have given you 20 000 dollars unless you've been a lazy ass with your studies.
What you have to do to qualify for a specific education depends on what education you're getting. Some previous education in natural sciences may be required f.ex if you want to study biology, for example some high school equivalent courses in biology, physics or chemistry.
Getting into higher education is usually not hard unless you're talking med school which has many more applicants than they can take in.
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As far as I know, there's a policy that all university courses shall be available in english. I've had a lot of foreign lecturers over the years. Just how good the english education is varies with lecturer, course and location .. Up in the arctic, they were very good at it!