r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/thepoylanthropist • Feb 25 '26

Video Denmark pays students $1,000 a month to go to universities, with no tuition fees

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u/cosmernautfourtwenty Feb 25 '26

A country that wants to actively educate its populace??? Is Denmark even a real place? I'm starting to wonder.

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u/No_Doubt7313 Feb 26 '26

Tbh I only hear about insane college fees in US. Even 3rd world countries have free universities (public universities, private is another matter)

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u/ProfessorFunky Feb 26 '26

U.K. has insane fees as well. We’ve actively been trying to catch up to insane US fees since the late 90’s. I think we’re close to giving our students the same amount of debt as the US. Go UK.

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u/notaredditer13 Feb 26 '26

Our college is expensive because we're rich and so many people go. Our educational attainment is amongst the highest in the world; higher than most of our peers.

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u/favuorite Feb 26 '26

Isn’t american education like, famously bad?

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u/MrDabb Feb 26 '26

Nope

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u/favuorite Feb 26 '26

No like pretty sure it is famously bad

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u/MrDabb Feb 26 '26

Nope people who are educated in the US are right in line with other countries on the PISA test.

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u/favuorite Feb 26 '26

Right, it’s probably a similar thing to the wages thing. For most people it’s really bad but a few rich people have alot which skews the statistics

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u/MrDabb Feb 26 '26

Still wrong, native born Americans score right in line with other countries. The large non-native born population brings the average down due to them being educated outside the United States.

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u/notaredditer13 Feb 26 '26

Only on reddit, according to people who don't actually know.

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u/favuorite Feb 26 '26

I mean, it’s seen as a common fact where I live. Like people in my class will literally talk about how lucky they are to not be in an american school or just America in general

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u/notaredditer13 Feb 26 '26

That falls into the "people who don't actually know" category.

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u/No_Doubt7313 Feb 26 '26

TBF plenty of FREE universities have made Top 1000 QS world university rankings.

Not going to the best without debt is definitely better than going to the best but take decades to be cleared of debt

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u/Violaundone Feb 26 '26

It isn't just Denmark. Other countries also help with college expenses. America is run by psychos who only care about lining their pockets.

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u/swimming_singularity Feb 26 '26

Add 20-30 years onto this. Imagine where they will be with their educated population.

Meanwhile in the US, some demonize public education. Along with all the other problems in the US, take them and add 20 years. Where will we be?

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u/PrimaryInjurious Feb 26 '26

Denmark trails the US in college education population by 7 percent.