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University advice
By LionMan101, history, 3 years ago, In English

Hello, everyone. In one year I'll have to pick a university for a bachelor's degree in computer science, it can be anything except web development. After doing some research, I realized that nearly all the universities are more focused on making money than teaching students. The universities would ask for a minimum 15.000$/year up to 45.000$/year and since that's a lot of money for me I'm thinking about if that is worth for me since I'm an autodidact person. Also, I checked if there are some scholarships available if you are a great student, for example, qualifying for the IOI or getting medals at the national stage, and most of them didn't care about this at all and the rest of them would give you a 20%-30% discount, maximum 50%. As I previously said, they are so focused on making money rather than being focused on teaching, and since I don't like this, I don't wanna be part of this and give my money to such universities. Based on your experience, do you think the people hiring care about the certificates you have or just your knowledge? (In IT). At what universities were you guys and if you have any recommendations of some universities in which what you are learning it's actually useful, not wasting your time and money. And if you have any advice for me and for the rest of the persons in my situation.

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3 years ago, # |
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ETH Zurich is one of the top computer science universities in the world and costs <= 1600€ a year.

Though I don't think it is an option in your case, as Bachelor's degrees are taught in German. That's pretty unfortunate, as everyone here speaks English, and Master's programs are in English.

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Your profile says you're from Romania while $ signs in prices seem to indicate US (and I have a hard time believing Romanian Universities charge that much). As far as US Universities are concerned I think (even though I didn't apply personally) that you can apply to a full-ride scholarship. It's hard to get in that way, but not impossible especially if you're good in sports (I have no idea why they would rather take a non-medalist who is good in sports than a bronze IOI medalist who is not good in sports, but that seems to be the case for some people I know), or have some amazing achievements in CS. If they don't accept you, I don't see a problem in choosing Romanian University. If you get a job or start your own business before graduation you can just leave, I doubt they would charge you for all 4 years (it's year by year in my country at least), and even the yearly fee I found for international students seem like something you would earn in a few months after you get a job in Romania and even less if you get a job in Western Europe or the US.

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