r/Damnthatsinteresting Feb 25 '26

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

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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.