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5 reasons why you should consider studying in Germany

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Follow up from my last post Why I chose Germany for studying abroad?  This time I'd like to share with you the perks of being a student in Germany, in a more detailed way!  If you're thinking about coming to Germany for an exchange or a degree, be sure to read this one :D 1. No high tuition fee Maybe you've heard that studying in the US could cost you a small fortune, but studying in Germany is not the case!  In many German states, no tuition fee is charged because public universities are funded by federal states. And the best thing is this applies to both national and international students, no matter you come from Germany, the EU, or *outside the EU.  In my case, I pay slightly lower than €300 per semester, which is really good, even lower than the amount in my country. The semester fee is mainly for the social contribution and your student transportation ticket.  With this feature adding their reasonable living costs, studying in Germany won't really be too burdensom

Why I chose Germany for studying abroad?

So in this post, I'd like to talk about why made me decide to come to Germany for studying, my Master's degree, specifically. A little background of myself... I'm a Taiwanese having done my Bachelor's in Taiwan, and now doing my Master's in Aachen, Germany. My major is engineering-related. Actually, the idea of coming to Germany didn't come into my mind until the third year in my Bachelor's. At all times studying abroad sounded too "luxurious" to me, and that's mainly because when talking about studying abroad, most Taiwanese would firstly think about the US, and that's indeed fairly expensive (at least the tuition fee.) However, one day I walked by our university library and there was a presentation of studying in Germany, by DAAD, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (or "German Academic Exchange Service" in English.) I happened to be free and was thinking, "oh, interesting! Why not stopping by, it wouldn't hurt anywa