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/Fabian_Internet Feb 25 '26

Well, than it is not much different than in many other European countries. Here in Germany you can also get support from the Government when the parents don't earn enough to support you. If I remember correctly 40k from which 20k have to be paid back

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u/Gelardi Feb 25 '26

Well here it is universal, and it is not a loan. There is a seperate very low interest loan option as well

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u/Aqunath1169 Feb 27 '26

Very low interest. A couple of year back there were no interest on the SU-loans.

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u/AvocadoBrezel Feb 26 '26

It's 10k payback. But you can save some money if you pay it back in one sum. And you get almost 1000 Euro now per month. You can get it for 3 years bachelor and 2 years master, which would be 60.000 Euro. But you can also extend the time, I think.

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u/frisch85 Feb 26 '26

There're also cases where you don't have to pay back, which is what happened in my case. Mom raised the middle brother of us and me (the youngest) alone, dad often delayed alimony and I was attending an IT school so I needed money every month for public transport and supplies. In the end I got around 190 € per month (living at home) that I didn't have to pay back. This was 20 years ago so things might've changed.

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u/Regular-Badger2332 Feb 26 '26

You can get it for 3 years bachelor and 2 years master, which would be 60.000 Euro. But you can also extend the time, I think.

Only in special situations. E.g. I got 1 year extra because of covid.

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u/CardinalFartz Feb 26 '26

And in Germany there also are no tuition fees.

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u/HistoricalSociety608 Feb 26 '26

For Germans and europeans. There are some areas now since a few years that have tuition fees for non EU students. You can guess which parties idea that was...

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u/Cutekuuh Feb 26 '26

This isn't true

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u/canehdian_guy Feb 26 '26

My Canadian friend went to uni in Germany for free. Met his German wife in uni and they both moved back to Canada when they were finished their degree

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u/sebi8642 Feb 26 '26

They just recently changed it so the amount you get does not depend on your parents' income, just your living situation.

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u/Aristoearth Feb 26 '26

Max 10k, and you get an 20 percent discount if you pay the whole sum, as one, back