Questions tagged [tuition]
Fees paid by students to academic institutes they attend to cover educational expenses.
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Does any country have free college & open admissions?
Here's my rough understanding of differences in higher education in different countries:
In the U.S., college is paid for in general by the individual student, not the state. On the other hand, ...
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Is it worth the sacrifices to choose the United States instead of the E.U. for a Master's programme? [closed]
I'm graduating from my Bachelor programme in Computer Science and Engineering at EPFL (Switzerland) next year, in July. Although I can continue at EPFL for my Master's degree (or an even higher ranked ...
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Tuition to transfer to massachusetts during a degree [closed]
My husband is currently in the middle of his degree in chemistry (we are both independent adults without links or support to parents/family). I am the main wage earner for our household and we ...
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When did US undergraduate education become so expensive?
As far as I know, in the majority of countries in the world, especially in Europe, undergraduate education, even at the top universities, is almost always significantly less expensive than at ...
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Does it make sense to pay tuition fees for a PhD degree? [duplicate]
Some Ph.D. programs charge tuition fees. Others are competitive.
Does a Ph.D. done by paying tuition fees have the same gravity as a Ph.D. done on stipend when it comes to an academic career?
When ...
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Is it possible or common to receive a scholarship from home country for international students?
I'm looking to pursue my Ph.D. degree in a different country.
Currently, I'm working on my Master's thesis.
The major challenge for me would be to receive a tuition fee waiver from the University I'm ...
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Academic position in the UK, do universities in the UK pay for dependent tuition?
I'm an assistant professor in the US and I would like to move to the UK. My daughter will be starting college this September and I was wondering if universities in the UK offer any tuition waivers if ...
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Selling of monuments: What does it mean?
I am watching the documentary "Free to Choose, Part 6: What's Wrong With Our Schools" at this link
At 20:08, Friedman says:
Many of the buildings and facilities at Dartmouth have been donated by
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What does it actually mean by the sentence "tuition is paid by the supervisor"?
What does it actually mean by the sentence "tuition is paid for by the supervisor" ?
Why would the supervisor pay the tuition fee for a PhD student?
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Costs of having a US-based PhD supervisor doing a PhD in Germany?
A little background first, as this is maybe not familiar to people outside Germany: In Germany there are universities that can not award PhDs. So called "Hochschulen/Fachhochschulen". This means they ...
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Waiving library costs if the student has own access
Costs of print and electronic resources including access to journals and books are usually part of tuition fees for PhD and MSc programmes.
Are there universities which waive such costs if the ...
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Why has there not been established any coherent measure of educative quality? [closed]
It seems nonsensical and backwards that university institutions can attract students by boasting with their brand value or exorbitant tuition fees rather than focusing on the actual educative quality ...
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Why can't universities work around the proposed reclassification of tuition remission as taxable income, by not charging tuition?
There has been a lot of press about how the new tax proposals currently being considered by Congress could hurt grad students because one of the plans would treat remitted tuition as taxable income.
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What can we do as faculty to make tuition more affordable for students? Do we have an obligation to make tuition more affordable? [closed]
The inflation rate of tuition in the US has been higher than the general economy's inflation rate for some time, sometimes it is twice as high What can the faculty do to stop/slow this down?
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What is a tuition waiver (in the US)?
A tax proposal in the US is reported to make "tuition waivers that many graduate students receive when they work as teaching assistants or researchers" taxable.
I am currently a PhD student at a US ...
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