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...how was tuition and the cost of text books/course materials like for you?

I've heard that the international version of some text books can be significantly less expensive than their American counterparts, so I was curious.

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We don't have tuition in that sense. We do have admin fees that vary from university to university, with the most expensive I've come across being ~350 per semester (so 700 per year). This includes administrative costs as well as contributions towards public transport usage and the student association. I pay 200 a semester and a further 350 per semester for my train ticket, since I live a city away (90 mins commute each way).

Course materials are usually uploaded free of charge. Some professors provide bound print outs of slides for a few euros, but most upload the slides and possibly a written manuscript and allow you to print them out as you want. The most expensive textbook I've bought was 100 for a monster of a book. I bought the (English language) international edition; the US edition was around 600-700$ iirc. That said, a lot of textbooks are available as free PDFs through your college, which is what I usually end up using.
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^ that's pretty cool.

I think I've seen you post that you're currently in a master's program - have any of your fees increased with that when compared to your undergraduate?

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Tuition was 9,000 per year. I did a four year course.

Textbooks cost around 500 in theory, but the second-hand book stores around the town sold them for a fraction of that, because leavers would always sell their books there. Particularly savvy professors would recommend older editions of the text, worth a fraction of the price, then distribute their own material which matched current-edition content.

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g0ldie posted...

^ that's pretty cool.

I think I've seen you post that you're currently in a master's program - have any of your fees increased with that when compared to your undergraduate?

Master's counts as undergrad here so no. If you want to do a PhD or whatever a master's is a prereq
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thanks for the answers.

seems like it's pretty much similar with where @Xavier_On_High went to school and a lot of places in the US.

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It's a unified European system, so probably. Keywords "Bologna process" and "European credit transfer system"
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Even though the topic doesn't apply to me, I just wanted to add that the US version of a popular AI textbook went for like $90 but the international version which had identical text but a different cover was $15 brand new on abebooks

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The tuition is like 7k-15k a year depending on your program, with fine arts, engineering and comp sci usually being the upper end of tuition costs. Book costs are around 1-1.5k a year. But for a philosophy program it's a lot cheaper for books for example. You spend like 30-60k on a degree basically. Pretty much every university is the equivalent of a state school, I guess.

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I payed almost nothing but then I was one of the lucky and skilled enough to have free tuition based on merit.

It's very cheap though comparatively even if you pay all of it out of pocket.

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https://evolve.elsevier.com/cs/product/9780323661348?role=student

this was our most expensive book and the price is more or less the same in local currency. every other book we need per semester has so far been cheaper than this and a lot of people just buy them used.

i usually spend around $300~ in books per semester but tuition is 100% "free" and every student gets a grant which is either $140~(if they live at home) or $860~ per month.

with my current expenses i usually break even per month and therefore don't have to work on the side.

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