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Re: is college/university to expensive? - July 3rd 2015, 09:48 PM

I'm slightly biased here as I'm from Wales and even though the full tuition cost is around £9,000, the Welsh government subsides Welsh student's fees so we only have to pay around £3,600. However, they don't know if they will be able to afford this in the coming years.

My experience is that it's not too bad. However, I can see that paying £9,000 or more seems dreadful. But then most students are in the same boat, and generally, you only start paying the loans back when you start earning a certain amount (can't remember the exact amount but I think it's between £20,000-£25,000). It's probably an annoying thing to pay back but as long as you are good at budgeting, I imagine it's not too bad. I think that if it's something you wanted to do, then I would go for it. But I do agree that the £9,000 a year is very expensive and off putting, and would hate to see the cap being increased again.


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