• Jesus_666@lemmy.world
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    I went to a university without entry exams or numerus clausus. They instead used the first two semesters to filter out the unskilled (plus the general requirements for attending university in Germany).

    Of course if first semesters are counted they’d show up in this statistic even if those students would be almost guaranteed to be gone a year later.

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      15 hours ago

      Though still easier to get into I imagine, this was still the case in US universities when I attended. A significant portion of students didn’t make it past the first year or so.

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      Yeah, most countries have something like that. And then you’ve got the US and their Trump University, a thing that actually existed.

      But really, lots of pay-to-attend stuff.