Fees for university students
More proof of how the welfare state is slowly crumbling, The Finnish National Fund for Research and Development (SITRA) issued a report calling for the introduction of fees for Finnish university students. And in a move that will certainly hamper even more foreigners from coming to Finland, a state working group is already preparing a proposal to impose fees on students outside the EU…
University of Oulu Rector Lauri Lajunen says that the issue of fees for students “must not be taboo”. He noted that the Nordic Countries are getting to be the only ones where there are no fees.
One year of studies at the University of Oulu costs the university an average EUR 10,000. Lajunen would not ask the foreign students to pay all of the costs, but he feels that tuition fees would bring in thousands of euros a year.
So if all Finnish university students have to pay these fees, and some U.S. university students get full scholarships (often including books as well) – could many U.S. students be eventually paying less for school than their Finnish counterparts?
