Originally Posted by cdfox
I just posted this June 3rd BBC article "How US students get a university degree for free in Germany (http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32821678?post_id=10204472521873542_10204472521833541#_=_) - on another thread.

I think the BBC gives a good breakdown on the costs for US students. Interesting that most of the classes are in English. Now, I wonder how much the situation is different in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Argentina, and other places - to Germany.

At the moment, England and Wales have fees for university students; students from Scotland do not pay fees at Scottish universities (I'd move to Scotland in two seconds IF I could or dh could get A job). However, the fees for universities in England and Wales are still considerably cheaper than in the US.
It's not as simple for a U.S. student to take advantage of some of these free universities as it seems. A friend of DD's wanted to apply to a school in Finland. Classes would be in English, tuition free but there would still be travel & living costs. But she figured out that to get in she needed to pass an exam where the closest place it was administered was in Europe. She would have needed to fly to Europe to take this exam to hopefully get into a "free" university. Probably would have been cheaper in the long run but it was logistically difficult and she didn't have the money or the time that spring to follow through.