Finland Schools Free?

melancholly

http://www.ukcisa.org.uk/about/statistics_he.php

just to make the point - most relevant is section 3:
3. Percentages of international students by level and mode

In UK HE in 2008/09 international students made up:

• 13% of full-time first degree students and 11% of all first degree students
• 68% of full-time taught postgraduates and 43% of all taught postgraduates
• 50% of full-time research degree students and 43% of all research postgraduates

now i can't find easy stats on what country first degrees come from, so many of the postgraduates who are overseas students may have done an undergraduate degree here too, but i don't think that will be the case (that's also in my experience of teaching postgraduate courses, albeit a little out of date ).

anyway, back to the OP
http://www.bis.gov.uk/assets/biscore/corporate/migratedD/publications/B/BIS-RP-008

looks like just under 200 UK students do degrees in Finland each year - who knew!

for 'cheaper' options, you may not have to go so far - Maastricht got big media coverage for being an alternative to an expensive UK degree in the last 6 months.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/mar/06/university-europe-no-debt
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11012095

The_One_Who

Or go to Scotland? At the moment (after the May 5th election who knows what will happen) it's under £2000/year, although it is a four-year degree. But all loans and grants are available.

Savvy_Sue

The_One_Who wrote: »

Do you speak Finnish? If not that would be the first major hurdle.

and good luck with it! :rotfl:

If the OP's friend is male, btw, it was certainly the case a few years ago that they were seriously under-represented in the student population of Finland. This meant that they were hugely 'eligible'. DH spend several months there and met many couples where the lady was an educated Finn and the chap an educated 'foreigner'.

Whether that's another reason to consider studying there, I'll leave you to judge.

I blame a mediaeval law which required couples to be literate before being able to marry: the lads were less keen to study than the lasses. :rotfl: