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Studiengebühren und Hochschulzugang: Vorbild USA?

Tuition fees and admission to higher education: model USA?

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In Germany, the supporters of tuition and fees refer to the USA as a model. There, in spite of high tuition and fees, much more children from families with a low socio-economic status, so it is said, can study than in Germany. The article demonstrates that this is only half of the truth.Most of the US-students with a low socio-economic background attend 2-years-colleges or colleges with a level of education considerably below the German level of university education. At the 150 highly selective universities and colleges which are comparable with the German universities, especially at the private elite universities, the social selectivity is much more severe. Only 10 percent of the students come from the lower half of the population. For the most part, the high tuition and fees are responsible for this. Therefore, the US higher education system is not the right model for university financing in Germany.

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Hartmann, M. Studiengebühren und Hochschulzugang: Vorbild USA?. Leviathan 33, 439–463 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11578-005-0055-7

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