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Pattern of subsidies to Higher Education in Europe.
Higher education throughout Europe is heavily subsidized by the state. The direct costs of tuition are subsidies by grants to Colleges and Universities, so as to allow fees to be reduced to nominal level and the indirect cost of tuition (in the sense of earnings forgone) are subsidized by grants or loan to students. While the general pattern of subsidies to higher education is same throughout Europe, there are significance differences between Countries.
In some countries, all colleges and universities are subsidized as well as financed by the government ; in others, there are private as well as public Institutions. Most European Countries provide aid to students by means of a mixture of grants and loans, but the mix varies considerable from country to country. At one extreme is the U.K where students receive grants but no loans, and at the other is Sweden where the bulk of student aid takes loan.
In Europe, especially continental Europe, universities are heavily subsidized by their national governments. In Germany and Scandinavia for instance, most Master's programmes are totally free of charge. In the recent publication of the Times Higher Education Supplement , 36 of the top 100 universities in the world are located in Europe. Masters Portal has researched the tuition fees in those top 100 universities. In continental Europe, the tuition fee was on average about 1/4th of the tuition fee of the universities in the USA (based on 07/02/2009 exchange rates).
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