Hi CHARLES! :-)

 CA> I think you missed the point. Germans have had FREE college
 CA> tuitions until only recently. In the USA we can't even help the
 CA> poor and elderly with our 'budget' much less give away college
 CA> degrees here. 
Yes, technically it's free, at least listening to a lecture and taking
exams doesn't cost money. People working at universities are paid out of
taxpayer money. You still need to buy books (which you mostly don't need to
do in school), which can be quite expensive, and you have to pay some
amount of money per semester for administrative costs (this is mostly to
allow the student bodies that are involved in running the university to
operate - universities here work a little like city-states of their own
with different commisions in which the students get seats as well, which is
required by law). How much that is depends on the university. At Bremen
University, I pay about 110 Euros per semester.

Ciao
Pascal

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