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Hannah Hirschsprung Lange is finishing her final semester studying bioengineering at Aarhus University, with $800 each month in financial support from the Danish government. Like most Danes, she will graduate owing nothing because tuition at public universities and most colleges is free, and students are paid to go to school as if it’s a job. The Danish grant system, known as the Statens Uddannelsesstøtte, or SU for short, is available for students for up to six years. Danes pay for the free education and the SU system through taxes that can carve out over 50% of one’s income. Earlier this summer, the government made big reforms to higher education, shortening or restructuring the length of a third of the country's 500 master’s programs from two-year degrees to one year and three months and reallocating the funds to training for nursing, teaching and social work. But there was no government proposal to get rid of free tuition for undergraduates. Nor did they touch payments that go to students.
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