Admissions without polished promises
Practical guides on admissions, visas, budgets and realistic study-abroad routes.
2026-09-01
Cedefop expects a third of Europe's low-qualification jobs to be gone by 2035. Read the number correctly
A projection of −32% by 2035, a 28-point gap between school leavers and degree holders, and one country table that does not mean what it looks like it means. What the Cedefop publication actually measured, and what it did not.
Fresh analysis
See all articlesCheck your Estonian scholarship list: three of those programmes no longer take applications
Guides to studying in Estonia copy each other, and several schemes they still list as open closed years ago. Here is what is dead, what is alive and exactly for whom, and the one mechanism that is worth more than any of them.
Study abroad: 6 countries, real numbers
Tuition is the number everyone compares and the one that decides least. Germany, Austria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Netherlands side by side on the three figures that actually gate a student visa — with the source behind each one.
Study in Europe in English: where to apply
English-taught degrees exist in all six countries we cover — but not at every level. Where English actually gets you in, what score each route asks for, and why the language test is rarely the thing that blocks you.
Study abroad for free: what it really costs
Free tuition in Europe is real — Germany charges €0 at most public universities. Free study is not. Here is what stays payable after tuition goes to zero, and which of it is a fee versus money you get back.
Collections by situation
Not a topic — a situation. Pick the one you are standing in right now.
11th grade in Russia → Germany
A school certificate is not enough for a German bachelor's — this is the year that closes the gap.
Open collection6 articlesSchool in the CIS → the Baltics
English-taught bachelor's straight after school, without a preparatory year.
Open collection5 articlesBachelor's → a master's in the EU
A finished degree changes the rules: recognition, funding and deadlines all work differently.
Open collection4 articlesAlready in the EU / changing status
Studies end long before the residence permit question does — what the next permit actually needs.
Open collection5 articlesBudget for the first year
Tuition is the smaller half. What the first twelve months actually cost, and what covers them.
Open collectionEverything else
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Seven numbers about studying in Europe
We do not publish a figure we cannot trace back to the body that issued it. These seven change decisions — each one links to its own source.
student visas Germany issued in 2024. How many it refused is not public: refusal data per consulate is classified for internal use only.
goes into the blocked account (Sperrkonto) a German student visa requires for one year — €992 a month, unchanged for 2026.
of international bachelor's students in Germany leave without a degree — 28% at master's level. Cohort of 2014, recalculated in 2022.
a month is what the Netherlands requires you to show for a study residence permit at a research university or an applied-sciences university (hbo) — for the whole of 2026, tuition not included.
a month is the subsistence minimum Latvia requires for a residence permit, a study permit included, from 1 April 2026.
a month for Estonia, and this one you have to work out yourself: the police require four times the subsistence level, and the 2026 state budget sets that level at €220. 4 × €220 = €880.
a month for a Lithuanian study residence permit, and this is the second one you work out yourself: the migration department asks students for half a minimum monthly salary, and the government set that salary at €1,153 for 2026. 0.5 × €1,153 = €576.50.
Amounts are what the state asks you to prove, not what a year actually costs — tuition and rent sit on top. Estonia's and Lithuania's figures are each derived from two documents, because no single page prints them. Every figure is re-checked before each admission cycle.
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