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KU Leuvin
Polytechnique Paris, ENS Ulm (Paris) and Lyon, Centrale-Supelec
TU München, KIT (Karlsruhe)
Politecnico di Milano
University of Amsterdam
University of Copenhagen
KTH
ETH Zurich, EPFL (Lausanne)...
None of these schools are comparable to a Stanford or Harvard or Princeton or Columbia or MIT.
Not true. There is huge federal funding for U.S. universities, both public and private. Major universities receive billions every year.
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Please. If US universities were well-funded from public coffers, which is what the OP's question was, tuitions wouldn't be sky high. The US has abandoned its universities, including "top" ones like UC Berkeley and UCLA. You can't put private universities and public ones into the same category when asking this question, that was the OP's error.
Some European countries, in comparison, provide a university education to their citizens for free. Now, who is it that funds their universities better?
None of these schools are comparable to a Stanford or Harvard or Princeton or Columbia or MIT.
Those are private universities. The US doesn't fund them at all. They're privately funded. They don't belong in the discussion. You (and the OP) are attempting to compare apples to oranges.
Career-type disciplines are usually full price for those who can pay. PhD (traditionally academic track) programs are usually free. If they weren't then no one would get a PhD, because it can take like 10 years from date of bachelors. You would be paying a half million dollars or something crazy.
aaaaaaaah... you're talking about academia disciplines. I have a friend who received her PhD in something to do with EO/human relations and she had to pay for that out of pocket with loans. I think academia and perhaps STEM type masters/PhDs are the primary ones that end up free.
None of these schools are comparable to a Stanford or Harvard or Princeton or Columbia or MIT.
Are you kidding? Students out of those universities (and the top British ones) are among the best in what the world has to offer, especially in engineering. And companies / organizations crave for them. Again, don't underestimate them simply because you only work in a US centric vision. I work in an international company and what I state above is very true.
Not denying at all the quality of the Ivy league or MIT, Stanford... but on the other side of the ocean, there is real quality education and very bright people as well who improve organizations.
Do Americans believe that all our engineers, chemists etc are imported from the US? lol
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