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[-] johan@feddit.nl 23 points 1 year ago

Yeah but you won't know if it will pay off until many years after studying, so it's a gamble.

For the majority of cases having a university degree will give you a higher salary, not to mention the value of the experience of going to university as well as the connections you make there (both personally and professionally).

University in the US is just stupidly expensive and the loans have a crazy interest rate.

I'm from the Netherlands where you'll receive money from the government while studying. You can take a loan on top of it with minimal interest and so it's basically always worth it if you can afford it and are academically able to.

[-] Kubenqpl@szmer.info 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah I am from Poland and we have free university so usually it is worth going to university as well. It might be easy for me to say these things as I am not from USA, but most likely I would look for some jobs with good sallary to loan cost ratio or not go to university.

[-] Frederic@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago

Same in France, universities are about free, and I had a small scholarship because my parents were not rich, so in a way, I got paid to go to uni

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