I think it is a topic that is not often discussed, and it should be the other way around.
In my opinion they should pay the right price without burdening taxpayers.
I would like to know your opinions.
Here is a reference article:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Switzerland/comments/1clrqek/foreign_students_subsidized_by_swiss_taxpayers/
Posted by LingonberryMore6848
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It could be easily turned into a “buy a student visa” immigration scheme if you could pay to get in
This is something that many European countries have done, or are lately implementing.
In the Netherlands, non-EU citizens pay 12,500 Euros per year in most Universities (the range is 8K to 20K).
In France it is about 4000 Euros per year, although in some Grandes Ecoles it can be up to 15K per year.
Nowadays most of the Nordics charge a differentiated tuition fee for non-EU citizens.
And in Spain, the system basically survives of the tuition fees they charge to Latin Americans.
So, yes, it can (and IMO, as a non-EU citizen should) be done.
Eh, that’s a negligible amount of money compared to the corporate tax subsidies we shove up rich people’s arses already. At least foreign students are likely to contribute to society, whereas rich people are only ever a burden
After all it makes Switzerland more competitive comparing to other places. I personally know few students who decided to turn down MIT to go to ETH.
It would be very interesting to conduct a research on how the amount of taxes paid by foreign students who decided to stay in Switzerland compares to subsidies provided by the government to make the education cheaper.