>>3730
Non-US University:
* Paid by taxes which everyone with a job does shoulder.
* Exchange and long-time students do not get their tuition paid through taxes so they aren't fed through their time spent doing less than others (between 430 and 1700 $ a year).
* Stipends cover half or more of all living expenses, study aid paying if income of parents is not too high already.
* 3 years as an undergraduate after which employment is already possible, 5 years total.
* Morons are cut out of the student body by effectively failing everything of importance in the first year.
* Students are caucasian and speak proper English while a third of them went abroad and/or learned a third language, exchange students know proper English and the course language even if it is not English, professors are caucasian and did reaseach and teaching in US-colleges, also were in other countries like Britain or China for research.
* STEM means to write two thesis papers and not a single paper more to finish graduation because it is not an lib arts degree. Some papers end up published internationally and become actually relevant.
* STEM means that only a small amount of credits (less than 6 %) can be earned outside the field, but also by internship programs.
* Professors give lectures about their current research.
* Professors reference current research papers when they are deemed relevant to the topic at hand.
* Professors don't know you as graduates, don't have the time to discuss politics, and more often than not do not care about your presence in Uni, or what you do outside of it because why should they.
* After graduation, be part of a (paid) research group for up to a few years, with or without becoming a doctor, pay for a fresh graduate starts at 4300 $ gross.
Other quaternary education institutions:
* Tuition can vary between none (usual) and something above 1000 dollars a year.
* Teachers have been working and teaching for years in that field.
* What you learn also comprises things which will not be relevant to your later job, but most of it will.
* Concepts learned are what you need.
* You will build contacts to people in the industry.
* "High demand for Skilled tradesmen" is not a meme, job security because of either laws or due to lack of someone to replace you with.
* This applies to immigrants who compete with you as well. → better enjoy it while it lasts.
* Latter applies to University as well.
* Many points mentioned above to apply to quaternary schools as well.
In other words: Apart from international competition which you cannot avoid, not a single thing you lamented or sperged about matters here. I am not asking you to prove what you said because 1) that would be a miserable display and 2) because even if you went over this topic with graduates, research assistents, Dr. nat.s and other people who know about those things, most of what we talk about here is hard to prove non-anecdotally which implies 1).
I don't think it's the colleges in your countries you dislike that much as it is the people you are surrounded by and the ones who profit from the system at hand.