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[00:02.12]For VOA Learning English,
[00:05.00]this is the Education Report.
[00:08.52]Hunter Bliss, like more and more American students,
[00:12.96]left the United States to go to college.
[00:17.20]He told the BBC that the cost of education
[00:21.28]was one reason he went to Germany to get a degree in physics.
[00:27.24]As a student at the Technical University of Munich, in Germany,
[00:32.60]he pays around $6,000 dollars per year
[00:36.28]to cover his rent, insurance and other living expenses.
[00:42.24]To study at the University of South Carolina,
[00:46.28]his home university in the U.S.,
[00:49.72]Hunter would have to pay more than $10,000 dollars per year, with scholarships.
[00:56.32]Bliss convinced his mother that studying in Germany was a better option for him.
[01:03.44]"You have to pay for my college, mom - do you want to pay this much or this much?"
[01:10.08]The Institute of International Education, or IIE,
[01:16.32]says that the number of U.S. students pursuing college degrees in Western Europe
[01:22.52]increased by about 5 percent from 2010 to 2012.
[01:29.44]In the 2011-2012 school year,
[01:33.44]there were 46,571 U.S. students enrolled in degree programs in 14 countries.
[01:43.56]Around 68 percent of U.S. students pursue degrees in English-speaking countries.
[01:50.96]The top destination countries were the U.K. and Canada.
[01:55.68]France and Germany were third and fourth, respectively.
[02:00.92]Germany, in particular, has attracted many more American students in recent years, like Hunter Bliss.
[02:09.36]From 2010 to 2012, the number of American students
[02:14.80]enrolling in German universities increased by almost 10 percent, says the IIE.
[02:21.96]In 2012, there were more than 4,000 American students
[02:27.52]pursuing undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees in Germany.
[02:34.16]The IIE says American students choose to study in another country for two main reasons.
[02:41.88]First, international experience is becoming more important in the modern job market.
[02:49.56]Second, the cost of higher education has continued to rise in the United States.
[02:57.00]Rising tuition costs make education abroad
[03:01.24]– particularly in countries that charge no tuition
[03:04.76]– attractive to American students, says the IIE.
[03:09.04]Many American students choose Germany because of the low cost of education there.
[03:16.24]German public universities do not charge tuition fees.
[03:21.04]And many universities in Germany offer courses in English, too.
[03:25.84]Casey Detrow, a New Yorker who is getting a degree in American Studies at Humboldt University, in Berlin,
[03:35.20]told NPR that she chose to go to school in Berlin because it was free.
[03:41.72]She said: "I really cannot even compare that to what I would be getting in the United States.
[03:50.52]When you are talking free versus $50,000,
[03:54.96]I feel like there is no contest. I can't justify going back."
[04:00.24]Other students have made similar statements.
[04:04.48]Michael Ferrante, a college student, told Bloomberg that "it was infinitely cheaper to study in Berlin."
[04:13.68]Ferrante said he paid $500 for two semesters at Humboldt and Freie Universit?t in Berlin.
[04:23.60]For two semesters at Johns Hopkins, a university in the United States,
[04:29.28]he spent roughly $27,000 dollars with financial assistance.
[04:34.24]Jeffrey Peck, the Dean of the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences at Baruch College,
[04:41.56]City University of New York,
[04:43.66]told the BBC about some of the differences between Germany and the United States.
[04:50.72]"College education in the US is seen as a privilege and expected to cost money
[04:58.80]and in Germany it is seen as an extension of a free high school education
[05:04.44]where one expects it to be provided," he said.
[05:08.40]The German government has been eager to encourage students to come to Germany for another reason.
[05:15.88]Like many countries in Western Europe, Germany has a demographic problem.
[05:22.88]In other words, the population is becoming older,
[05:26.72]and fewer young people are entering college and the job market.
[05:32.08]The German government, says the Migration Policy Institute,
[05:36.60]wants to attract young students to help Germany's economic competitiveness.
[05:42.60]The hope is to attract skilled foreign students who will stay in Germany.
[05:47.68]For now, the state government in Berlin says it has no plans to introduce fees for international students.
[05:56.12]Steffen Krach, the Secretary of Science, said: "We will not introduce tuition fees for international students.
[06:05.72]We don't want the entry to college to be dependent on your social status."
[06:11.56]Sebastian Fohrbeck of the German Academic Exchange Counci
[06:16.24]l told the BBC that the system is working.
[06:20.04]He says that 50% of foreign students stay in Germany.
[06:24.44]He also said: "Even if people don't pay tuition fees,
[06:29.24]if only 40 percent stay for five years and pay taxes,
[06:33.76]we recover the cost for the tuition."
[06:37.52]I'm John Russell.
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